It isn’t as common here as elsewhere, but shills pushing certain brands. I see it extensively on automotive and dog forums. Not just fan boys, although they are a problem too and can be hard to sort out from the reps.
I need to know the slipper joke now. Please!
FWIW I don’t think there’s a “clique” here either. Too many people for that. I just think there are some folks who are “louder” than others (still, I couldn’t name them) and they tend to write posts without careful consideration of previous posts, and somehow they get heard/mentioned better than I do.
Here’s both the slipper joke and the stick joke in one post. I’d never heard of the slipper joke until this thread, either.
I think there definitely is a clique in GD, where if you are not one of those known members, you have to shout a little harder to be heard and you may still not be heard, or listened to.
Thanks, ZipperJJ, though I hadn’t seen that those were all that ubiquitous!
The fact that the SDMB is 90% liberal certainly makes the political discussions less interesting than they might be.
I agree with almost everything said so far.
Let me attempt to add one of my own, though I admit it might apply mostly to me. I hate it when someone comes in with some crackpot “theory” to overthrow some chunk of science, whether it’s anti-evolution, or alternative medicine, or genetic memory, or crystals, or … you get the idea. Inevitably, they are completely incapable of engaging in or even understanding logical debate. When asked for evidence - or even when the need for evidence is explained to them - they usually launch into some wild-assed rant about how closeminded we are, or how mean we are for not believing them. The one thing they never DO launch into is a well-reasoned, clear, and insightful explanation of their pet topic and why they think it’s true.
This isn’t just an SDMB problem, of course - I run into it everywhere - but it annoys the crap out of me.
Also, if I were emperor of the boards, I’d ban all political talk as being too utterly tediously mind-numbing to be allowed to exist. It’s not that I don’t have political opinions, it’s just that I’d rather gouge out my own gall bladder than debate them. But that’s just me.
My biggest issue is when I’ve made a statement that’s generally true or based on an actual experience and some know-it-all has to come in with, well did you think of this? What about this? And “this” is a completely off-the-wall scenario that would likely never happen.
For example, I once posted a pit thread about waiting for the plumber. My problem was that I couldn’t hardly even get the guy to talk to me in the first place, then when I finally got him to commit to come out to look at my problem, he didn’t make his four-hour window and didn’t bother to call. Instead I got a nasty gram when I left him a message informing him that I couldn’t make it.
So I posted it on the pit because I was really irritated, and had a bunch of people say, “God, I hate it when people like you complain about plumbers. Maybe you weren’t top on his list. Did you think about that?” Then when I stated that perhaps said plumber should’ve chosen a different four-hour window, I was told, “Well, what if he got into an accident? Huh? What about an emergency? Maybe he had a pregnant wife who went into labor while he was almost at your house. Did you ever think of that? Why are you such a self-entitled bitch?”
I feel like, even if I have a completely “airtight” gripe, I’m going to get slammed somehow by some douchebag who feels better about themselves when they complain about other people.
Oh, and I hate the Doper appreciation threads. Mostly because I’m never appreciated. 
When a discussion becomes more about the individual posters’ personalities, and what they’ve said or done here in the past, than whatever the current discussion is supposed to be. I find it uninteresting, and more information than I care to keep track of. (That I mix up similar board names probably doesn’t help.)
The worst example for me is stuff that is obviously being carried over from other message boards that are devoted to this behavior alone. It’s just amazingly dull to me – like expecting an interesting movie review and getting an article devoted to Roger Ebert’s terrible driving and how rude he is to waiters.
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“When come back bring facts”, “teh”, “Amurrican”, LOL cats and other forms of baby speak. Especially in GQ or GD.
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Hard to explain, but for example:
OP: Any critically unpopular movies you love?
Poster: The Godfather.
This happens in just about every thread of this sort in Cafe Society. And that post pretty much derails the intent of the thread. -
When an OP starts with an explanation of why it was posted to a certain forum and then gives the mods permission to move it if necessary. It’s really not that big of a deal and certainly not something you need to apologize for ahead of time in order to appease the mods.
Inserting a blank space before punctuation!! It’s a goddamn epidemic lately.
People making what they claim is an “important”/“critical” nitpick just to correct spelling. It might be a nitpick, but it’s rarely important.
I’m not sure if this is meant to be just a reference to the “+1” expression itself, or to all posts of that type, so to be clear–
All posts of the +1 type with no other content.
Includes “yes,” “I agree,” “this,” “a thousand times this,” “QFT,” and so on.
I don’t mind any of these expressions as such, but (except for polls!) I don’t really care how many people agree with any given statement, if they have literally nothing else. It doesn’t take much to add your own spin or shading. One sentence is often sufficient. And if you really have nothing else to add, why bother?
This offense is often combined with the one of unnecessary quoting of entire previous lengthy posts.
You know you can mouseover those links and see the address without clicking, right? You can at least know if it is a Youtube link or whatever.
There’s the guys like engineer_comp_geek who insist on just posting blank space. It’s like they’re posting in invisible ink or something!
[Moderator Note]Last chance for all-name annoyances, not specific posters. Doing otherwise will get you an official warning.[/Moderator Note]
Party politics makes the whole damn thing infuriating. Rather than engage on ideas, policy details, etc. everyone seems more interested who is on what side. It’s not even as if the two sides in question are anywhere near diametrically opposed to each other, in the political spectrum of the world.
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It was a joke, thus the link.
Pretty sure Der Trihs’s post was entirely a good-natured joke…
Zombie jokes.
Hi Opal.
Bring pie.
My biggest pet peeve lately is when someone starts a CS thread on a topic w/ the obvious intention of getting a fun discussion going about that topic, like “Let’s name our favorite movies about horses” or whatever, and then someone comes in on post #3 w/ a list of about 50 movies that look like they were just cut and pasted from Wiki or something. That’s not the point of the thread!!! In the same vein, links to TV Tropes in similar types of threads. Not the point, people, and takes the fun out of the thread.
The lame “get off my lawn” joke, as mentioned in the OP
But the number one annoyance for me is all the posts about people’s cats. Why would anybody else care about someone’s cat?
Someone will post “What’s your favorite (genre) movie/book/song?”
Within five posts someone will post a list of eight of them. Within 15 posts someone will post a link to (or worse, cut and paste the list) Entertainment Weekly’s “100 greatest (genre) movie/book/song,” thus ending the thread.
Favorite is singular.
Moderators who wouldn’t know a joke if it bit them?