# Posting styles you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999 "2011-11-05T22:13:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/281 "2011-11-25T16:42:56Z")
Something else that drives me nuts is when a question is posed that’s asking for opinions (but sometimes it can involve some amount of fact) and one of the posters will give their answer followed by “Why is this even a question?” I know sometimes it’s a joke, but sometimes IMO, it’s done to say “THIS is the correct answer” and that always bugged me as it always seemed to me to boarder on threadshitting. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/282 "2011-11-25T19:56:54Z")
Yeah but that is posting CONTENT you hate, not just a style. Speaking of, using some words in CAPS to simulate shouting is annoying as HELL, almost as bad as incorrect italics for emphasis. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/283 "2011-11-25T21:00:40Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > It didn’t? fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/284 "2011-11-26T06:53:30Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > . . . “Went to the store and bought broccoli. Chopped the broccoli. Made soup.” . . . Moose! Moose! Say your god-damned pronouns! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/285 "2011-11-26T18:58:47Z")
I am coming to hate hate hate the fact that we are Googleable. We are now “blessed” by morons who resurrect zombies from years if not over a decade ago to add absolutely fucking **nothing** to the conversation. Most toss in some tidbit that was already brought up on page 2 during the original thread life. At best. The rest bring up some mis-information that was disproved by post #22 7 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/286 "2011-11-26T19:18:35Z")
Yeah, i’m with you **silenus**. I wonder if there’s some sort of hack or VB setting that would prevent new members (or any members, for that matter) from replying to any thread that has been dormant for more than 12 months. Or, at the very least, flagging zombie threads so that i realize, before i open them, that the conversation is years old. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/287 "2011-12-21T14:54:24Z")
Holy cow, I’ve just noticed something else that I can hate: Square brackets used instead of parentheses in thread titles. Examples from the board right now: **Do You Hate Your [real] Name?** **Photography: It’s not [only] the equipment** Square brackets are commonly used to show that something has been added to a text by someone other than the original author, usually when quoting. When found in thread titles, they normally indicate that the title has been edited by a mod, usually adding some note of clarification. Now, I could be wrong (and the sky could be pink), but I’m pretty sure that this hasn’t happened in either of those cases, nor have the respective original posters tried to make it appear as if it has. Instead, going by context, said posters have just used those square brackets instead of parentheses, because, fuck, I dunno, I guess parentheses just aren’t cool anymore. Maybe parentheses didn’t wear the right kind of shoes to the playground. Maybe that banana shape just isn’t hip enough these days. This is stupid, as well as confusing, and it has to stop. Thank you for your attention. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/288 "2011-12-21T14:59:19Z")
Those weren’t editorial interpolations? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/289 "2011-12-21T16:55:23Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Yeah, i’m with you **silenus**. > > I wonder if there’s some sort of hack or VB setting that would prevent new members (or any members, for that matter) from replying to any thread that has been dormant for more than 12 months. > > Or, at the very least, flagging zombie threads so that i realize, before i open them, that the conversation is years old. What about people who randomly capitalize “I?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/290 "2011-12-21T17:30:51Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Maybe you remember an old Saturday Night Live sketch in which Dana Carvey plays singer-songwriter Derek Stevens who has cleaned up and is trying to make a comeback. But he shows up at the office of his producers (Phil Hartman and Sigourney Weaver) with no demo tape. > > He claims he really has been composing though and sits at the piano to play his next hit, “A Lady I Know.” The lyrics describe a lady who goes to the grocery and buys broccoli. The bulk of the song is the line “She’s chopping broccoli” sung with increasing emotion. No. I laughed out loud too, but never saw it. It just sounded funny as hell. I know I probably do some of these bad things but honestly if we all stopped doing every one we’d be a bunch of professors sitting here lecturing each other dryly. So I will keep doing them! Fight the power! ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/291 "2011-12-21T17:34:52Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > “Stand” as short for “withstand”? If you can’t stand it, what do you do? Are you in mortal danger? > > Sure, that an be irritating. > > Preach it, brother! > > Including non sequiturs? > > But what if it’s been several pages, and one’s memory of the OP may have faded? > I’m not sure I understand what “parse” means, here. But I’ll read on. Maybe it will become clear. > > Like this? > > Like this? > > Ah, I get it. I’ll be sure to never do this. > > You know what’s unreadable? People adding two spaces after a period. Luckily, html erases that particular bit of silliness. > > Really? There’s no chance that each point really deserves a response one at a time? > > I’m not convinced that multiple quote boxes creates incoherence _per se_. > > Yes, so what? The quote boxes often make each rebuttal clearer. > > You know what I hate? People who get off on complaints about totally common and mundane internet forum behavior. Get over it. It certainly won’t be going away any time soon. > > But to be fair, neither will the complaints about it. > I hate bitching about silly, harmless crap. But bitching about bitching, that’s ok. I approve. I wish you’d said more so that I could quote that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/292 "2011-12-21T17:38:24Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > It’s ironic that you posted this without running afoul of a single criticism that’s been previously posted in this thread. > > Non-comformist, my ass. Actually I’d say it’s pretty conformist to post in a thread about criticising posting styles in the styles that are complained about. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/293 "2011-12-22T07:31:58Z")
> [@Apex\_Rogers](#): > > **People** who **OVER-FORMAT** their **posts** in order to _ **emphasize** _ their _ **argument!!!** _ **Give it a rest** and **let your point stand** on its own merits!!! > > You’re not doing yourself any favors by making me squint through a gaudy Times-Square-esque bedazzled post. For example, from that same motorcycle thread linked earlier (this guy is easily the worst offender I regularly see): [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14439950&postcount=27](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14439950&postcount=27) Everyone is perfectly aware that you’re thoroughly outraged with a post that utilizes too much ‘formatting’, adding extra exclamation points doesn’t add to your diatribe on the subject though. Was this a little better for you? Ya’ Ann Arbor Ass wart! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/294 "2011-12-22T07:42:25Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > This is stupid, as well as confusing, and it has to stop. Thank you for your attention. You [really] should[n’t] tell me what will {annoy} you|.| [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999.md?page=14)