That’s not quite true. Most people fit your description but there are one or two people, who I won’t name, who positively basked in their supposed info and derided anybody who so much as dared to question whether it was true. They know who they are and it teaches us all to remember that while things seem official at a place in time and then become undone, it’s foolish to resolutely stand behind anything unofficial. This isn’t complicated.
Rumours and speculation are fun and all part of the cycle. Chastising people because you believe your source renders anybody who disagrees ridiculous is against the spirit of the entire thing.
Nobody who brought the “rumours” to the table cancelled other discussion - they merely supplied what the current status was, what they heard, providing information for the discussion.
And while yes I exaggerated, clearly, it isn’t far from the truth.
If people don’t want to speculate on headliners, or talk on the supposed rumours, why don’t they just stay out of the thread until anything is announced? They are literally the only ones that whinge when otherwise conversation flows.
Once again the thread gets derailed by people being smug that a rumour, that was proved correct, isn’t panning out to the final poster.