# The kind of posts I hate
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 3, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852 "2000-01-03T04:26:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Lawrence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lawrence)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/1 "2000-01-03T04:26:00Z")
I really dislike posts that consist of the poster analyzing the previous poster’s message (or the message of whoever is the enemy on the thread) sentence by sentence. They’re long, boring, and confusing, and nobody cares except the few people involved and their friends.
A few posters whom I respect, like Majormd and Pldennison, are sometimes guilty of doing this. When they’re involved, it’s a venial sin. But could everybody try to cut this out?
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### Author:  [@Uliginous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uliginous)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/2 "2000-01-03T05:16:00Z")
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Lawrence?
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really dislike?..those are some strong words
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what else would you find on a message board such as this?
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> that consist of the poster analyzing
Analyzing? or responding pernt by pernt?
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> the previous poster’s
That’s you right, since you posted prior to me?
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> message(or the message of whoever is the enemy on the thread)
Enemy?
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> sentence by sentence.
Or fragment by fragment
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> They’re long, boring, and confusing,
Sez you.
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> and nobody cares except the few people involved
Like the one’s reading the thread and posting on the topic in the first place?
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> and their friends.
There are no “friends” in cyberspace.
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> A few posters
I’m sure you’ll list them for us
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> whom I respect,
As if it matters
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> like Majormd and Pldennison, are sometimes guilty of doing this.
**Everyone** is guilty of something
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> When they’re involved, it’s a venial sin.
Pardonable sin for some, but not for others?
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> But could everybody try to cut this out?
No.
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### Author:  [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/3 "2000-01-03T05:21:00Z")
If I had anything to me I’d dissect Ulig’s post and double-quote everything from the original post while responding to it and Ulig’s lines, but. . . I think I’ll watch a movie.
– Sylence
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I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.
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### Author:  [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/4 "2000-01-03T05:21:00Z")
Lawrence wrote:
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> I really dislike posts that consist of the poster analyzing the previous poster’s message (or the message of whoever is the enemy on the thread) sentence by sentence.
OK…you dislike them…
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> They’re long, boring, and confusing, and nobody cares except the few people involved and their friends.
Ok…you get confused…
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> A few posters whom I respect, like Majormd and Pldennison, are sometimes guilty of doing this.
You must feel so torn…
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> When they’re involved, it’s a venial sin.
What’s _venial_ mean? I might have to look that up…
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> But could everybody try to cut this out?
I tried, but I just couldn’t stop myself…
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### Author:  [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/5 "2000-01-03T06:06:00Z")
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Who the heck do you think it is? Some kind of frictional character?
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> really dislike?..those are some strong words
I disagree, I don’t think they are strong words. I think they are weak words. Why not use some words with more ‘oomph’ behind them? Why not just save bandwidth and say ‘hate’?
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> what else would you find on a message board such as this?
Well, I don’t know - he could be talking the things that hold fences up, which I wouldn’t expect to find on a message board.
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What in the hell is a pernt?
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Well, let’s keep an open mind here - maybe he means the kind of poster you hang on the wall.
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Enemy: one that is antagonistic to another, especially one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent.
Enema: the injection of liquid into the intestine by way of the anus.
They’re right next to each other in the dictionary - I wonder why?
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Or phrase by phrase
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> Sez you.
You mean like this post?
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> ## and nobody cares except the few people involved
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> Like the one’s reading the thread and posting on the topic in the first place?
Now, why in the world would the people reading the thread be interested in reading the thread? Huh? Just tell me that!
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Whassa matter, Ulig, got no friends or something?
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I have a poster of the Peyote Priest hanging on my bedroom wall.
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Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary: Matter: to form or discharge pus.
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> ## like Majormd and Pldennison, are sometimes guilty of doing this.
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> Everyone is guilty of something
I beg your pardon! I am as pure as the goddamn driven snow!
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Venial sin: a sin that is relatively slight or that is committed without full reflection or consent and so according to Thomist theology does not deprive the soul of sanctifying grace.
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No.
(keeping my fingers crossed that all of my little quote-y things work properly.)
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
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### Author:  [@PUNdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PUNdit)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2000, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/6 "2000-01-03T06:32:00Z")
Lawrence states:
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> A few posters whom I respect, like Majormd and Pldennison, are sometimes guilty of doing this. When they’re involved, it’s a venial sin.
What the Hell could my wife and Phil be doing on a message board to get a sexually transmitted disease?
## \ Oh, you said venial not venereal – er never mind continue with your dissections of quoting, but next time quote somebody so I can keep up. \
“You can be smart or pleasant. For years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.”
Elwood P. Dowd
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/7 "2000-01-03T06:57:00Z")
::eyes widening:: Sue and PHIL???
WOW!!!
(Hey PUN – I can get you a good lawyer – gotta go for that army pension!)
-Melin
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/8 "2000-01-08T21:46:00Z")
Then don’t read those posts.
Sheesh, if one is to make a point based on another post, wouldn’t it be prudent to quote the words so as to give reference?
This is not a conversation, but a message board. You can’t politely interrupt the conversation to give your opinion in this manner.
It is far easier to quote the post by which you are giving your opinion on than ramble on without reference. That is more confusing.
Sheesh
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### Author:  [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/9 "2000-01-10T23:19:00Z")
[doing my best to be unpleasent _and_ stupid]
PUNdit
posted 01-03-2000 12:32 AM
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> A few posters whom I respect, like Majormd and Pldennison, are sometimes guilty of doing this. When they’re involved, it’s a venial sin.
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> What the Hell could my wife and Phil be doing on a message board to get a sexually transmitted disease?
You’re married to Pldennison? And isn’t Majormd’s name Sue, not Phil?
[doing my best to be unpleasent _and_ stupid]
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### Author:  [@Sake\_Samurai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sake_Samurai)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/10 "2000-01-11T00:25:00Z")
This is exactly why I always post to this MB with my rubber gloves on.
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Hell is Other People.
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### Author:  [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/11 "2000-01-11T02:53:00Z")
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Rubber gloves on _what_?!?
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Yer pal,
Satan
_ **First Place**
Most Popular Poster of the 20th Century Competition
As overseen by Coldfire_
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### Author:  [@Lawrence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lawrence)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/12 "2000-01-11T04:42:00Z")
Yeah, I knew I’d get the piss taken out of me on this one, but I still hate those damn posts where every sentence in the previous post is hyper-analyzed by the next poster. I’ll stop playing favorites. Everybody cut it the hell out!
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### Author:  [@Bubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/13 "2000-01-16T15:39:00Z")
Lawrence - I agree with your last post.
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### Author:  [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kind-of-posts-i-hate/3852/14 "2000-01-18T04:11:00Z")
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An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.