WHAT is offensive about this?

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I have no idea what was wrong with what you did. I'm just as clueless.

I don't think its offensive. Maybe they thought you were taking the piss of it or being sarcastic.

I think it's because the poster said "Have you seen Bob?" and you basically wrote on there "Yeah, he's dead!" Also, people are weird about posters, and even weirder about death. Posters don't have a comment section. Facebook does.

In any case, you are fine. People are just superstitious.

It was disrespectful because of the way it could be interpreted.

If I saw what you wrote on a sign about a missing person who had died, my first impression would be that the person who wrote it doesn't really care much and might even be disgusted that everyone is making such a huge deal over the death.

Most people who genuinely want to express their condolences for a death will do so by talking to the friends and family of the person, writing letters to the person, or even posting on a special page on Facebook like you described.

Writing on a poster like that is very impersonal and can easily be seen as sarcastic, much like saying "Oh boo hoo!" when you see someone crying.

I think you hit the nail on the head mindslave. the poster was posted two days earlier, and your comment, as a comment, was probably interpreted as answering the question on the poster, "have you seen bob? in an unceremonious way. Someone who didn't know your true intentions might presume you are deviantly vandalizing it / making light of the situation. You know you wrote it with love and thats all that matters, people will always have their opinions.

I think the problem is that RIP is frequently used in a sense that deviates from its literal, original sense. It's often used by people just wanting to announce that someone is dead, and to gloat over their death.

Here's an example:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/rip-osama-bin-laden

This article is headed "RIP Bin Laden" and underneath it says: "He died as lived…as a cave-wetting coward."

Given those words, do you think the writer of the article was honestly desiring that Bin Laden rest in peace? No. He was merely announcing that he's finally dead.

There are numerous others all over the Internet. Draw your own conclusions.

Just say to them "What's wrong with you people?! Do you have NT syndorme, since you think it's disturbing"

Don't think it would work but maybe it would, not that great at social interaction >.>

Personally, I can't understand how that is offensive either. Sure, the phrasing is a bit casual, but you're right, it's just a poster. It's not like you wrote it on a big, official monument to him. Also, the phrase wasn't negative. You were expressing concern over his death. It doesn't seem offensive to me at all.