“Jackass 2 sucks ass”
“Oh really- when did you see it”
“I haven’t seen it I just know it sucks”
Well look at that. Some of MY habits are OTHER’S pet peeves.
Yeah, the TWoP-type nickname thing was a staple of mine in Enterprise threads. Got some pretty pointed complaints about it ,too. Esp after pay2post, when many of the old reliable crowd of People Who Are Certain to Post In This Thread left the Dope and the casual interest posters got confused (or annoyed) by it. So, I quit that. I still probably do other things, tho.
How about accusations of post count padding? Does ANYONE really care so much about post counts that they would either try to pad theirs or base their estimation of another’s reply on the count? Really? WHY? It’s a freakin message board. All a post count does is, get this, COUNT THE POSTS. Wow. What a concept.
Another thing that gets tiresome to me are the assumptions made by some. And they almost always tend to be very vocal about it. “OH, you’re a Xtian? Then, you’re stupid, because I believe in Science.” Hey, it’s a big, wonderous world, buddy. I can be a Jew, Muslim, Mormon, Roman Catholic, etc… AND accept Science. In just the same way an atheist can also be an ignorant dullard. Works in political threads, too. “You live in Texas? Thanks for mudering retarded inmates, asshole!” So, living somewhere automatically causes political, ethical, and moral ideals? Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind.
And what’s with all the chocolate, hampsters, kitties and stuff? Eh, at least I can always skip MPSIMS on those days I’m not feeling MPSIMSy.
I hate when the OP is asking for an opinion of the best “whatever” and someone comes along and posts a response and then “end of story”.
Ex:
What’s the best 70’s rock group?
Queen. End of story.
No, it’s not the end of the story. Other people have opinions as well.
It annoys the heck outta me when people throw snarky political and religious remarks into threads that have nothing whatsover to do with politics or religion. Some folks just can’t seem to address any topic without letting us know that they hate Bush and/or that they think Christians are ignoramuses (ignorami???). I’d rather not cite any examples, since I don’t want to single anyone out and risk making enemies. If the absence of citations is taken as proof that I am deluded and that this never happens, so be it.
I shall name only things of which I am guilty. And not everything, just the first three that come to mind.
-
Harping on in multiple threads about one subject, like why the third LOTR movies sucks.
-
Insufficent proofreading of posts before hitting the submit button. Particularly long ones. You should write those in Word first anyway, then spellcheck & cut & paste.
-
Constant squirrel abuse.
I hate it when someone is so desperately trying to be PC and make everything around them PC that they come up with ridiculous alternative explanations and excuses for things that, oh my god, have to do with racial, religious, sexist, etc. generalities. It’s pathetic.
I also hate the parsing posts, especially when it’s just to insult someone and not actually add to the discussion.
I also become annoyed at the obvious cat obsession/bias on this board. I’m a dog person and proud of it.
Well, I’d mostly agree with you. But for your example given Queen really is the End of that story. 
It’s like asking what is 1 + 1
- End of story.
My biggest pet peeve is when people don’t reply to a question asked directly to them. I don’t mind if they say that they don’t want to answer that question, but things like saying “I answered that 12 pages before” or “I’ll answer that if you answer this”. We aren’t politicians, noone is voting for us, so we should be able to avoid such underhand tactics.
I’m a cat person and I find it annoying, too.
What’s worse is when they say “I have answered that before in a previous thread”- without even a link to said thread. If you have answered it before, then how hard is it to look up, copy & paste?
Here’s something that peeves me on lots of messageboards: people who post questions which have specific, factual answers, and then never acknowledge nor thank the folks who post responses. Even if the posted response is incorrect, you should acknowledge the effort. This bugs me a lot when it happens to me, and it bugs me almost as much when I see it happening to someone else.
Recently I spent more than an hour trying to help someone who was looking for the name of a song in a certain commercial. I finally found what I believe to be the correct answer. I posted it, and the OP never said a word. Yeah, I know I should be offering help out of the goodness of my heart, with no expectation of thanks, but for cryin’ out loud, at least acknowledge that someone tried.
I always get a warm feeling when I get a warm and sincere thank you for one of my researches.
??? don’t know what that means.
My pet peeve is the movement of a thread into the PIT. The PIT is different from other threads by its vary nature. The choice of the PIT should be with the originator of the thread.
I hate people whose default mode is to deny that they ever said anything. Typical exchange:
Poster A: X
Poster B: Poster A said (slight restatement of X)
Poster A: I never said any such thing! I defy you to point to the post where I did. Here, let me type it again in small words so that you’ll understand: X!
Chrissake, if you have an opinion, stand by it; don’t be anal about the wording.
Another thing: People who post WAG’s in GQ ten minutes after a question goes up. It’s one thing if an obscure question has been languishing for hours; maybe no one knows and a WAG will at least get some discussion going. But what is the point, ten minutes after someone posts a question about biology, and knowing there are bio experts who routinely post on this Board, of saying, “Duh, I don’t know, WAG, but I think lactation originated in fishes”.
This especially irks me when I see it in Post #2.
I’m sorry, but those have to stay.
Constant squirrel abuse = repeated, albeit unpredictable, non sequiturs to amuse the poster (and not necessarily anyone else). It often involves appending short statements at the end of a post in the smallest possible font, which, bizarrely, draws more attention to itself than posting at regular size would. People who do that are jerks.
And yes, I just made that up.
I’m feeling rather sheepish because I committed so many of these my first couple of months on the boards.
People who obviously can’t be bothered to read an entire thread before replying and, as a consequence, post some short factual answer that’s already been submitted hours, or even days, ago. Example:
Also, people who emulate the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Most. Annoying. Practice. Ever.
One thing that annoys me is when a fairly straightforward question is asked in GQ, is answered in short order, but people keep posting in it, so it sticks like a barnacle in the New Posts search results.
Re: posting in the pit about a mild practice that irritates you and then having twenty or thirty people do exactly that to be “funny”…man, you might as well get mad at the wind for blowing. It’s the Straight Dope, but still, it’s the internet. You’re basically announcing that you will be comically perturbed if anyone presses this shiny red candylike button here, so please nobody press it. They’re not doing it because it’s “funny.” They doing to annoy you, and you being annoyed is funny.