Things you dislike on the SDMB

The BBQ Pit
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I think I know what you’re saying and agree. Receiving as much respect as the independent political parties, non christian/muslim/jewish religions are, and I’ve seen almost this exact quote used, just lonely teenage girls playing Harry Potter.

And I really hate my comma overuse. I can and have written environmental impact statements, my technical writing is very professional, but this place brings out the commas in me.

Threadshitting is my biggest bitch lately. There was a dog thread recently that countered the twice-daily kittypicfests and some random asswipe did a driveby “Dogs are stupid, I hate dogs”. I appreciated that a mod slapped him for it, but it’s totally uncalled for.

Bush-bashing got old 3 years ago.

Liberals aren’t alway right and conservatives aren’t … um, aren’t always … Let’s just stick with “Liberals aren’t always right”.

102

I try to correct people’s grammar in real life and I get “You knew what I meant didn’t you?” or “I like the way it looks hyphenated”. Here I might actually get someone who cares about being correct.

103

Thank you. I had begun to fear I’d never get my point across. :slight_smile:

104

Post more about it, though! Weren’t you the one who started the “Ask the atheist Hindu” thread or whatever it was called? That was neat.

105

Yes, it was me. And thanks. But:

I feel like I am constantly the one shouting about my own religion, or rather, ex-religion.
I don’t really know that much about it! Every household practices a different brand, I would love to get varying opinions.
I don’t really enjoy debating, and religious discussions always go to GD.
I don’t always get really good ideas for threads. Like I’d love a “Post holidays & descriptions from around the world” thread, but I can’t think of how to put it succintly and neatly, and wonder if it would even garner interest.

106

Why? Has he done anything right since? 'cept kill hordes of more innocent people due to his overbearing arrogance and hubris.

107

I do understand that more participation from others of the religion would be good. You don’t always get the chance to observe religious rituals that aren’t your own and reading about them from the perspective of someone who has participated in them is often enlightening, and would be more so in a forum like this where people post in a personal way, rather than in a more distant website or book. A holiday thread sounds great, but I can see how, if not carefully handled, it might get shoved into GD.

108

That would only be a valid observation if the dumb fuck didn’t keep on doing dumb-fuck and dangerously stupid things that negatively impact on the world on practically a daily basis.

And if there still were not people here who keep on leaping in with crap like:

‘Rusty shell found with trace of old, decayed mustard gas from 1989 so Bush was right all along’ shit.

109

That’s true, but it’s not interesting.

Bush is an ass.

Bush is still an ass.

Bush is a lying ass.

Bush is a lying ass that used to do coke.

HEY! Bush is still an ass.

Bush can’t eat pretzels because he’s such an ass.

I can’t believe no one noticed that Bush is dumb. Also, an ass.

110

  1. The lack of a pukey smilie.

  2. N’uff said. That usually means that’s all they can say.

  3. As meantioned before, posters who don’t read 5 page long threads before responding to the OP.

111

I dislike partisan hijacks.

112

More than bipartisan hijacks?

113

Often it seems like there are people who need to debate with the OP no matter what.

It’s hard to describe but there is a recent example where the OP didn’t know whether she should file a criminal complaint against a neighbor who was exposing himself to her in his window and actually masturbating in the window at her. Then other posters had to jump in and question whether or not she percieved the situation correctly. Some were borderline accusing her of exxagerating an innocent occurance even after she gave enough details that it was pretty obvioulsy not normal behavior. It just got ridiculous.

It’s not the debate in itself, it’s that everything has to be a debate.

114

As in the two sides jointly decide to start flinging their monkeyfeces at each other? Yeah, that’s more annoying than mere one-sided dumbassery.

115

Still minimizing the independents! Tri or quad-partisan, please.

Which reminds me of the PC police - “Cryo is an insult to ‘entities of less wasteful molecular movement’”, although it was due to one of them that I learned about the O-word and stopped using it in reference to people from certain parts of Asia

116

There’s very little I can add here. I, too, am not keen on many of the things listed, but a few things come to mind:

– Things that their fans refer to by initial. Common sense tells me that rendering “Star Trek; the Next Generation” as “ST:TNG” makes for a shorter and easier way of writing it. But many times, the use of such initials seems to be shorthand for “this discussion is for real fans only; anybody who doesn’t attend the cons, collect the DVDs, and wear the costumes need not participate in the discussion.” As others have mentioned, this pertains to BtVS, but also to LOTR, AI, SW, HP, and the like.

– In a similar vein, threadshitting. No matter how much the above bothers me, I’m not about to go into such a thread and post that all fans of ABCD are obsessed fanboys who need to get a life and move out of their parents’ basements. Yet some people, for some reason, feel the need to go into a discussion of some folks’ favourite thing and tell them that it sucks/blows/is dangerous/shouldn’t be mentioned where children can hear, etc. etc. etc. If you don’t like it stay out of it–as others have mentioned, you’re unlikely to change anybody’s mind.

– Another vote for the political correctness. No, some words and phrases should not be used. But many times, the discussion about a topic is stifled by digressions into the propriety (or impropriety) of the words or phrases used. It seems to me that a newbie who uses a politically-incorrect word or phrase is more of a matter for a mod to take care of, rather than a series of posters who seem determined to squelch discussion of the topic in favour of reminding all (over and over and over) that it is politically incorrect to use a certain word or phrase. One reminder to the poster is, IMHO, enough; if they continue to use the offensive word or phrase, report them and/or their posts to a moderator for further action as the mod deems necessary.

– The outrage that some people feel about news reports. No, some things that happen in our world are not nice. But pedophiles who stalk children, fanatics who murder innocents, mothers who kill their own kids, and folks who strangle puppies were all with us long before the Internet. I don’t recall anybody in, oh, 1987, seething with the rage of a dozen white-hot suns over something they read in a newspaper to the point where they shared their rage with everybody around them. What is it about the Internet that makes people want to one-up others with their outrage and their fury? Honestly, at times, these posts seem to be a contest–who can be angrier over something?

117

I used to do this out of old correspondace habits - signing off letters, to signing off e-mail, to signing off message board posts. They all seemed ( and honestly, seem ) part of the same continuum to me.

But now I do it more because it annoys people and thus it’s my passive-aggresive way of making the world a more miserable place :p.

  • Tamerlane
118

– bolding mine.

Yep. You’ve got that one covered all by your lonesome – as well as the junior-modding shtick.

Put that monkey-feces in your pipe and smoke it. Then come back and defend a mass-murderer, wannabe tough-guy/world leader.

119

I dislike the fact that every single moderator smack-down, warning, banning, thread closing, or bowel movement has to get bitched about and pitted, even when the target is an obvious troll, sock, or moron. I could rant for days about how Hitler was a swell guy, the Holocaust never happened, and Bert Convy was the most Misunderstood Musical Genius of All Time, and when I finally got smacked, more than one person would say, “Gee, Freddy wasn’t so bad–why don’t the evil power-tripping mods leave him alone?”

120

I dislike it when people make an offhanded Bush-bashing comment that is not relevant to the thread and then, when someone comes in and says “Enough with the Bush bashing already!”, they accuse him of being a Bush apologist, or “Bushovick” if you prefer.