There are many new members here recently. To all of the new members, I'd like to say Welcome!!

But I can't help but notice that there seem to be a lot of 'bait' blogs. These are blogs that are posted that seem either hypocritical, overly dramatized, or so unbelievable that they're ridiculous sounding. Now, perhaps these bloggers are sincere, but maybe they're not.

After reading the most recent of these blogs, they seem to have bits and pieces of other bloggers issues, just reworded a bit. But it sounded like bait to me. A 'put the shoe on the other foot' scenario. Someone posing as a step and writing some statements to get a reactionary response. I checked the bloggers bio and they were a member for less than 12 hours. The time of the post was 11 hours 45 minutes ago. So the blogger signed up and posted a strange blog immediately. Also, the name was just some random letters. The way I see it, if someone is going to sign up for this site to get legit advice and stay for a while, they're going to put a bit of thought into their screen name. Someone trying to bait the members will create a phony nonsensical name and start writing.

There were several replies to the blog. Members here would like to give good advice to those who are needing it. However, being that I truly believe this to be someone looking to bait us into giving hypocritical advice, I think this blogger got what they were looking for. Now, I'm not saying the members on here are hypocritical, not at all. What I'm saying is that the blog was worded to GET hypocritical advice.

Is this a BM looking for a reaction from SM? An ex-member looking to 'point and laugh'? Or someone looking for real advice? Nobody knows. But just be aware that 'bait' blogs ARE out there...