# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/81 "2011-11-06T19:30:11Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Person A: Obama is a big fat liar! > Person B: NO he is NOT! > Person C (otherwise known as ‘moderate’, ‘middle of the road’, or ‘nuanced’): Well, he did lie about \_\_\_\_, but - > Person B: You idiot. He is not a liar. The Republicans are liars! Look at what they did. STFU, Conservajerk! > Person C: Uh… > Person B: You no-good, homophobic, racist, Tea Bagger! If you stay out of the pit, you won’t see exchanges like this (which would be breaking the rules of any other forum). Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/82 "2011-11-06T19:31:54Z")
Anyone who decides some other post wins a thread. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/83 "2011-11-06T19:59:03Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Anyhoo, Anywho, anyhoo, or any variation on that pisses me right the fuck off.:smack: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/84 "2011-11-06T20:30:52Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Ok, I have to admit I hate this one, too. **Scylla** , in particular, is very bad for this and it reduces my respect for him. I know. I already make a lot of typos, and I have trouble reading what I wrote unless I space it out like that. When I read a book I have to hold a card to display one line at a time, and when I read posts I scroll it up one line at a time. It’s harder to do in the grey posting box. Sometimes I will go back and reformat it a line at a time, but usually I’m too lazy and just hit submit. ---
**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 6, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/85 "2011-11-06T20:40:11Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I know. I already make a lot of typos, and I have trouble reading what I wrote unless I space it out like that. When I read a book I have to hold a card to display one line at a time, and when I read posts I scroll it up one line at a time. It’s harder to do in the grey posting box. > > Sometimes I will go back and reformat it a line at a time, but usually I’m too lazy and just hit submit. Preview…also, if you look at the upper right hand corner of the posting box (both quick reply and advanced) you’ll see and up and down arrow above and below each other. Right next to some "A"s. If you click the arrow pointing down, it’ll make the reply box longer and much easier to type in since you don’t have to scroll around to see what you’re typing. It’s especially easier if you’re also trying to quote people since you can see everything at once. Also, there’s _something_ you can do to make the box wider. I’m not sure what it is, but it seems every once in a while the box is about as wide as the screen. Maybe the ‘every once in a while’ is when I’m on another VB board. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/86 "2011-11-06T20:48:37Z")
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**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/87 "2011-11-06T20:54:15Z")
Joey: That’s helpful. Thanks! Now, if you could do something about my laziness… ---
**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 6, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/88 "2011-11-06T20:57:08Z")
Posting styles I hate: Everybody else’s. Except **Stranger On A Train** ’s. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/89 "2011-11-06T20:57:33Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Joey: > > That’s helpful. Thanks! > > Now, if you could do something about my laziness… Paging R. Lee Ermey… ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/90 "2011-11-06T21:39:50Z")
[QUOTE=Ruken ] [QUOTE=I Love Me, Vol. I] [The “you-misspelled-X” knuckle-drag… That one bugs the shit out of me…] [/QUOTE] I mind it less if the poster is actually addressing the topic being discussed. Posters whose sole contribution to a thread is to point out a typo should be banned. [/QUOTE] He’s not talking about [del]irritating pedants[/del]\*\* helpful posters who point out real misspellings, he’s talking about the people who claim you misspelled something even though you actually didn’t. It’s the artsy-cutesy way of telling someone they disagree. > [@](#): > > The Green Bay Packers are awesome. > [@](#): > > The Green Bay Packers are awesome. You misspelled "red neck, potato picking, goat farmers. \*\*Strikethrough, another posting style I despise. [QUOTE=Tangent] On another board I frequent… there is a poster… who puts all these unnecessary… ellipses in his posts. There’s really… no reason for them… it’s just an irritating habit he has…and it just seems so… stupid to me. [/QUOTE] I (sometimes) use too many parentheses (though I daresay I use them logically, not willy-nilly like your ellipse abusing example). But I (probably) could use less of them if I tried (know what I mean?). [QUOTE=Sitnam] Posting on a message board like it’s a text message Teen Beat sleep over, OMG LOL! [/QUOTE] Someone using “lol” in regard to someone else’s statement is bad, but someone using “lol” after their _own_ statements is particularly grinding, especially when they use it after **everything** they say, like they are so insightful and clever and their audience is an ignorant, unenlightened collective. Also, I hate people who point out obvious mispellings and grammatical mistakes, even though its excruciatingly clear what the author intended. Corrections should only be used if the mistake alters the meaning of the text or makes it unclear, not for a simple homonym substitution. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/91 "2011-11-06T21:47:49Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > . . . – signing posts . . . I never even thought about that… I learned my trade in the Free Personal Ads section of the San Diego Reader (we even have a competing “Straight Dope” clone!) where bunches of us used to drool around childishly, posting goofy ads back and forth to each other. Lots of Star Wars pseudo-drama. Signing posts was not only obligatory, but much of the fun! I’ll try to stop… (I also overuse ellipses… I learned that habit from Dan O’Neill and his Odd Bodkins comic strip… He does it all the time…and I adore the man so…) … ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/92 "2011-11-07T03:41:14Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > On another board I frequent… there is a poster… who puts all these unnecessary… ellipses in his posts. There’s really… no reason for them… it’s just an irritating habit he has…and it just seems so… stupid to me. Well how else is he going to perfect his Shatner impersonation? ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/93 "2011-11-07T04:14:54Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > How do you quote specific lines within a post? I never actually learned how to do that here…⭕o I even asked in a thread if somebody could tell me how to do that, and nobody answered…you pricks. lol ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/94 "2011-11-07T04:50:04Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > He’s not talking about [del]irritating pedants[/del]\*\* helpful posters who point out real misspellings, he’s talking about the people who claim you misspelled > something even though you actually didn’t. It’s the artsy-cutesy way of telling someone they disagree. > > You misspelled "red neck, potato picking, goat farmers. > > \*\*Strikethrough, another posting style I despise. > > I (sometimes) use too many parentheses (though I daresay I use them logically, not willy-nilly like your ellipse abusing example). But I (probably) could use less of them if I tried (know what I mean?). > > Someone using “lol” in regard to someone else’s statement is bad, but someone using “lol” after their _own_ statements is particularly grinding, especially when they use it after **everything** they say, like they are so insightful and clever and their audience is an ignorant, unenlightened collective. > > Also, I hate people who point out obvious mispellings and grammatical mistakes, even though its excruciatingly clear what the author intended. Corrections should only be used if the mistake alters the meaning of the text or makes it unclear, not for a simple homonym substitution. This. Refrained from posting “lol”. Actually, I was told in another thread to SAY lol to show I was j/k. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/95 "2011-11-07T20:36:16Z")
Threads titled, “Recommend me a \_\_\_\_.” It’s been mentioned on The Dope before and I know it’s grammatically acceptable but I find the phrasing clunky and exceedingly irritating. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/96 "2011-11-07T21:21:54Z")
…I can’t believe that noone has mentioned people who can’t believe something hasn’t been mentioned yet! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/97 "2011-11-07T21:53:29Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …I can’t believe that noone has mentioned people who can’t believe something hasn’t been mentioned yet! Yep, people who don’t read the whole thread sure get on my nerves too. On the off chance this isn’t a whoosh, post #67. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/98 "2011-11-08T00:40:32Z")
Any thread whose title (or first sentence) is of the form: “What, no xxxxx thread yet?”. Apparently not, but now you have started one. As all such threads are at some point started by someone. or “Am I the only one who xxxxx?”. No. Well, I guess I can’t be quite certain, particularly if you’re being comically over-specific. But are you the only one who doesn’t watch reality TV? No. Are you the only one who actually liked Hudson Hawk? No. Are you the only one who doesn’t get the hype about Justin Beiber? No. Are you the only one who…? No! ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/99 "2011-11-08T01:39:30Z")
> [@Chopper9760](#): > > Threads titled, “Recommend me a \_\_\_\_.” > > It’s been mentioned on The Dope before and I know it’s grammatically acceptable but I find the phrasing clunky and exceedingly irritating. That is grammatically acceptable? I did not know that. I hope you are mistaken (nothing personal) because it sure _shouldn’t_ be acceptable… it’s just so _wrong_ (IMO, anyway). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-styles-you-hate/601999/100 "2011-11-08T01:56:08Z")
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