# Things people do on other messageboards that annoy you
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 26, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321 "2004-10-26T22:36:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/1 "2004-10-26T22:36:40Z")
I want a 50 line sig with some HUGE text, some **bright red** text, several stupid and recycled quotes that weren’t funny or profound when I got them in an email 8 years ago, something about my soul, something ~flanked by tildes~, several lines made up solely of asterisks, links to my blog, my friends’ blogs, my aunt Gretchen’s blog, all 6 of my kids’ blogs, and a picture of my cat.
Then I want to post 15 different times in the same thread, all one-liners that don’t add anything to the discussion and have no grammar or punctuation, and **use the sig every time!**
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### Author:  [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/2 "2004-10-26T22:46:51Z")
I really like this forum, MPSIMS, because people can post about random things that happened to them during their days/weeks/lives. Random things are perhaps my favourite things to read on message boards!
I go to another message board which has a forum called Miscellaneous Stuff, where theoretically you should be able to post about whatever, but if you try to post about your day, or if you post about a problem in your life, the responses you get will be like:
“[www.livejournal.com](http://www.livejournal.com) - you should go there instead.”
“Uh yeah, I don’t care. So?”
“Maybe you shouldn’t be asking people on a message board for advice.”
“too long; didn’t read”
Yeah. That annoys me.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/3 "2004-10-26T23:00:53Z")
> [@rinni](#):
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> “too long; didn’t read”
That’s hilarious. It blows my mind how stuff that would be considered almost taboo and unthinkable here (most of it rightly so) is so commonplace on other boards.
I love reading the imdb boards when the threads progress like this:
Post #1: Civil, well thought-out post about a movie, usually a review.
Post #2: Civil disagreement with post #1
Post #3: Harsh disagreement with post #2
Post #4: Flaming the living shit out of post #3
Post #5: This message has been deleted by an administrator.
😃
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### Author:  [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/4 "2004-10-26T23:08:25Z")
> [@Cisco](#):
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> That’s hilarious. It blows my mind how stuff that would be considered almost taboo and unthinkable here (most of it rightly so) is so commonplace on other boards.
>
> I love reading the imdb boards when the threads progress like this:
>
> Post #1: Civil, well thought-out post about a movie, usually a review.
>
> Post #2: Civil disagreement with post #1
>
> Post #3: Harsh disagreement with post #2
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> Post #4: Flaming the living shit out of post #3
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> Post #5: This message has been deleted by an administrator.
>
> 😃
Bwaha. When I worked for Amazon [which owns [imdb.com](http://imdb.com)], we called that the “IMDB Square Dance.” Post #2 usually didn’t occur… it went from civil post about movie to harsh disagreement to flaming the hell out of someone to deletion.
Good times, man, good times.
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### Author:  [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/5 "2004-10-26T23:13:41Z")
Uh, yeah. I forgot. Stuff I hate on other message boards:
[ul]
[li]For boards that allow sig pictures, the people who use a picture so big it knocks the frames out of whack[/li][li]Flashing avatars/icons[/li][li]Signatures that are longer than the posts [/li][li] **Constant** references to certain movies, books, etc. If I never see another Simpsons/Office Space/South Park/Monty Python/MST3K reference, it’ll be too soon[/li][li]Flashing avatars/icons[/li][li]“I’M LEAVING AND NEVER COMING BACK” posts[/li][li]Say it with me – flashing avatars/icons[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/6 "2004-10-26T23:42:12Z")
Leet speek, of course.
Giant sigs are a major detractor. Try reading a roleplaying message board sometime. The people are smart for the most part, but their sigs are like this.
* * *
GandOlf the Off White Wizard [link to site with GandOlf’s stats and adventures]
“Quote that happened in a game that means nothing out of context”
“m- Another Quote”
n- that means absolutely
m- nothing
n- do you have any mt dew?"
Colors that serve no purpose.
HUGE banner ad (visit my website!!!1!!!1!!!1!!)
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### Author:  [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/7 "2004-10-26T23:53:24Z")
Grammar and spelling that are so terrible that you can’t figure out what the poster is trying to write.
Evangelizing where it doesn’t belong.
Spam.
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### Author:  [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/8 "2004-10-26T23:54:26Z")
There are no other messageboards. 😉
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/9 "2004-10-26T23:57:33Z")
I know a woman who ruined a thriving forum by limiting her posting to the following:
1. quotations from a disreputable guru
2. quotations that she would refuse to discuss
3. “Thank you for posting” posts
4. Gushing language such as “my beloved forum”
5. snide comments
6. thinly veiled insults
7. controlling language
Since then she has brought three other message boards to a grinding halt.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/10 "2004-10-27T00:09:13Z")
Ya know those boards that display in a threaded outline kind of format, with just the subject line showing, and if you want to read the post, you click on the subject? And you know how when your post is short, so you just put what you’re going to say in the subject line and then follow it with (nt) for (no text), so people know not to click on it because there’s nothing in the post anyway? And you know how the default when you reply to a post is to go Re: the subject line?
I really really hate it beyond all reason when people reply to an (nt) post with a post that _does_ have text and they don’t bother to change the subject line.
I mean, yeah, it’s obvious if you see a reply to an (nt) post with exactly the same subject line that the replier must have put something in the body of their post, but _there is an (nt) in the subject line_. There should not be an (nt) in your subject line when there _is_ text in the post! I mean, it just _doesn’t make any sense!_ _pant_ _pant_ _pant_
Also, there are some specialty boards I post at where I have promised to myself that I won’t post about politics and religion. I’m there to discuss astronomically-themed tea cozy collecting[sup]\*[/sup], not politics and religion—and why should I waste my time on it there when the level of discourse is, er, well, let us just say not up to SDMB standards? And anyway, I don’t really need to get the reputation for being a pinko atheist when I’m there to talk about tea cozies. So I really hate it when people drop stupid throwaway comments about religion or politics in a thread I’m participating in, 'cause I have to sit on my hands instead of screaming, “Is it even remotely possible that you have a **CITE** for that outrageously ignorant statement???”
[sup]\*[/sup] This is just an example.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/11 "2004-10-27T00:15:28Z")
OMG LOL i h8 when u peeps rite like this it is teh suxxors LOL LOL ROFLMAOPMP!!!one!one!!one
I must go shoot myself now, BRB
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### Author:  [@alphaFemale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaFemale)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/12 "2004-10-27T01:21:30Z")
> [@chatelaine](#):
>
> [ul]
> [li]“I’M LEAVING AND NEVER COMING BACK” posts[/li][/ul]
yep.
also, look down 😉
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### Author:  [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/13 "2004-10-27T01:30:38Z")
You people claim there are other message boards. I don’t believe you, so: CITE?
Besides, how could anyone possibly have time for another message board? Your claims are not reasonable.
As for the sig lines, see below.
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### Author:  [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/14 "2004-10-27T01:32:49Z")
_“As for the sig lines, see below.”_
Shit! Howcome everytime I try to be funny I screw somethin’ up?
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/15 "2004-10-27T01:42:08Z")
[QUOTE=chatelaine]
Uh, yeah. I forgot. Stuff I hate on other message boards:
[li] **Constant** references to certain movies, books, etc. If I never see another Simpsons/Office Space/South Park/Monty Python/MST3K reference, it’ll be too soon[/li][/QUOTE]
Well, there’s a bit of that here, so I hope it doesn’t scare you off!
It’s the stoopid lack of grammer and spelin skillz that keeps me away from other boards. Most of it is deliberate, as in U R 2 kewl to spel! LOL!
And is it just me, or do most other places seem to _promote_ ignorance? Come in with actual information or an opinion and they blast you for “bringing down someone’s beliefs, man!”
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### Author:  [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/16 "2004-10-27T01:52:25Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
>
> Well, there’s a bit of that here, so I hope it doesn’t scare you off!
Actually, I haven’t seen too much of it here – there’s a board I belong to that almost **every** post has some form of \blah blah\, no matter how stretched out and far reaching it is.
Ugh, I hate the intentional bad spelling, too. **Why** is that considered cute or funny?
> [@alphaFemale](#):
>
> also, look down
I know, I know. But you know what I meant!
_sulks off to change her rather large sig_
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/17 "2004-10-27T04:47:07Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
>
> And is it just me, or do most other places seem to _promote_ ignorance? Come in with actual information or an opinion and they blast you for “bringing down someone’s beliefs, man!”
No kidding. What I like so much about this place is that people actually want to see where you got your information. I used to post a fair bit over at Japantoday (a news site with message forums), but the place has just deteriorated into an absolute sewer.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/18 "2004-10-27T05:54:59Z")
Large animated teddy bears with angel wings.
_:twitch:_
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/19 "2004-10-27T06:26:09Z")
Political circlejerks. As much as GD and its partisans annoy me, at least there’re a good number of conservatives and liberals here to defend their side when it’s being trashed but I can’t stand it when I’m on a wholly Democrat or Republican board and have to read through all the absolutely ignorant posts about how the other side rapes the elderly and eats the young.
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-people-do-on-other-messageboards-that-annoy-you/271321/20 "2004-10-27T07:12:30Z")
When someone quotes and entire post, instead of just enough to let the reader know who or what is being responded to, that annoys me.
That doesn’t ever happen on this board though. Never.
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