# Things you hate on OTHER forums
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 15, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070 "2007-06-15T00:14:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/1 "2007-06-15T00:14:26Z")
In the [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=424734&page=4&pp=50) about things you hate on the SDMB, **yellowval** posted this:
[QUOTE=yellowval]
Seriously? The lack of a pukey smilie is one of the things I like the _most_ about the SDMB. That and the lack of avatars, blinking sigs, dancing penises, and dancing bananas.
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Amen to all that. I absolutely cannot stand any sort of animations at all on a forum, as my eye is invariably and continually distracted by movement of any sort, which is 3x as annoying when I am actually trying to type a post. Smilies can work in moderation (one per post to punctuate a particularly cogent comeback) but not dozens of them.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/2 "2007-06-15T00:35:26Z")
To stave off any possible inter-board conflict, I ask that posters to this thread please avoid linking to other boards. If anyone wants to provide specific examples of another board’s relative shittiness, please use eloquent descriptions to paint a tapestry of words. Or something.
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### Author:  [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/3 "2007-06-15T00:44:56Z")
On one of the forums I frequent, a prolific poster has a gigantic banner in his sig. It’s big enough to introduce the dreaded horizontal scrollbar on my computer. I had to use Firefox’s “block all pictures from this domain” feature to get rid of it.
The kicker? The picture is from Wikimedia Commons. So now when I browse Wikipedia, I no longer see any pictures. :smack:
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/4 "2007-06-15T00:53:40Z")
There are other forums? Why?
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### Author:  [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/5 "2007-06-15T00:55:18Z")
Folks who use the “ticker” banners… graphic displays of how far along their fetus is, how old their child is, how much weight they’ve lost… sometimes all three in one signature!
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### Author:  [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/6 "2007-06-15T00:58:27Z")
Too many smilies, which leads to smilie abuse, i.e. posts that look like this 🙂 :mad: 😃 blah blah blah :eek: 😕 :o wah wah wah 😃 :smack: :dubious:, only much more annoying. And how many kitty cat smilies does a non-cat board need, anyway?
Obscene pictures used as avatars, mostly because that means I can’t surf there at work.
Bizarre color schemes, like **PURPLE** backgrounds with **MAGENTA** fonts, that make it hard to read.
An OP being able to go back and edit their original post to change their story, or eliminate it completely, if it doesn’t go the way they expect, leaving 3 - 4 pages of screaming invective directed at nothing. People being able to stealth edit their posts, so you can’t prove they changed their story.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/7 "2007-06-15T01:32:04Z")
I don’t mind avatars. I sorta like them, even the dancing ones, as long as they’re small.
I don’t like sig lines, especially banner ads and sig lines that aren’t set off from a post.
On one board (which has a lot of authors), you’ll find posts where people are commiserating about a tragedy, and right under “I’m so sorry for your loss” is “We don’t want no trouble, we just want your dog” or a banner ad for somebody’s book.
On another board, in the “What are you reading?” threads, some people post gigantic photos of the book cover. I don’t like that either, and it’s not just because I don’t know how to do it. 🙂
Ditto on funky color schemes and graphics overload.
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/8 "2007-06-15T01:57:48Z")
[QUOTE=Rysto]
On one of the forums I frequent, a prolific poster has a gigantic banner in his sig. It’s big enough to introduce the dreaded horizontal scrollbar on my computer. I had to use Firefox’s “block all pictures from this domain” feature to get rid of it.
The kicker? The picture is from Wikimedia Commons. So now when I browse Wikipedia, I no longer see any pictures. :smack:
[/QUOTE]
Couldn’t you just adblock that one image and not everything from the Wikipedia addess?
I hate huge sig pics and large avatars that change the formatting of the board.
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/9 "2007-06-15T02:15:17Z")
Animated smileys
Avatars
Any kind of animation in the posts
Sigs that are larger than the post (and are inevitably used every single time the poster says anything)
Large pictures
Anything whatsoever that makes me have to use the horizontal scroll bar. I loathe the horizontal scroll bar.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/10 "2007-06-15T02:20:03Z")
I hate boards that make it so that sigs aren’t set apart from the actual text of the post in any way, making me start to read them each time thinking it’s a continuation of the post. The IMDB boards are really, really bad for this (no link needed; browse any one of them). It always looks like this -
> [@any given post](#):
>
> I thought it was really touching when she decided to leave her husband in pursuit of her dreams. After all, I guess she made the right decision, but it still sucks and was emotional. We’ve all probably been there before and could relate.
>
> Take the gun. Which gun? I don’t know, just choose one!
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### Author:  [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/11 "2007-06-15T02:35:36Z")
Those avatars that are big eyed dolls meant to look like the poster. There are a bunch of sites to make them, and you can dress them and give them cute props like purses and cats.
Huge photos of Johnny Depp in sig lines. Huge photos in general in sig lines, but especially Johnny Depp. I have nothing against him as an actor or sex symbol, but I get tired of looking at him.
Oh! And also, “I’m in yr blank blanking your blank.”
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/12 "2007-06-15T03:12:01Z")
The standards of discussion are so significantly lower on just about every other message board out there that I get culture shock. I can’t think of the last time someone seriously posted here in IM-speak (kan u?) and if someone posts something completely loopy (not just trollish, but things like 9/11 conspiracy theories) around here it tends to get taken apart fast. Just about every other message board I encounter I feel like I’m trying to deal with thirteen year olds with ADD.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/13 "2007-06-15T03:19:58Z")
**Zjestika** , do you mean the South Park avatars? Yeah I hate those too-hey Cartman wannabee you missed the trend by about 7 years…
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### Author:  [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/14 "2007-06-15T03:52:58Z")
Inter-inter-inter quoting. Drives me BATTY. [example here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7970880&postcount=69).
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### Author:  [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/15 "2007-06-15T04:09:04Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
**Zjestika** , do you mean the South Park avatars? Yeah I hate those too-hey Cartman wannabee you missed the trend by about 7 years…
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Actually, no, but that would annoy me too. I’m thinking more of pretty girl dolls, as seen on [this](http://elouai.com/doll-makers/candybar-doll-maker.php) doll-making site.
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### Author:  [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/16 "2007-06-15T06:37:51Z")
[QUOTE=Jahdra]
Obscene pictures used as avatars, mostly because that means I can’t surf there at work.
[/QUOTE]
A certain woodworking forum I infrequently haunt had a poster whose avatar was a picture of a stacked woman’s chest with a flimsy top and no bra, bouncing up and down. It was highly distracting. The mods told him to remove it due to frequent complaints about it being NSFW. He refused to comply. They removed it forcibly. He stormed out of the forum whining about free speech and censorship. Sadly, he knew heaps about woodworking and was very helpful and a nice guy. Bit of a shame, all round.
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/17 "2007-06-15T06:43:10Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy]
The standards of discussion are so significantly lower on just about every other message board out there that I get culture shock.
[/QUOTE]
Pretty much what I was going to say. I mainly lurk on a certain misspelt profanity, finding the 10% of meaningful or humorous comments among piles of dross. Most of which seems to be drive-by postings from people who don’t have the attention span to read the whole thread.
/Mainly looks at Fark for the pictures
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### Author:  [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/18 "2007-06-15T07:28:52Z")
[QUOTE=kung fu lola]
Inter-inter-inter quoting. Drives me BATTY. [example here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7970880&postcount=69).
[/QUOTE]
Really? Unless it’s a whole bunch of really, really long posts quoted in their entirety, I’d prefer nested quotes like that- it makes it easier to follow the thread of a conversation. I have much more of a problem with someone quoting an entire OP to add two words to a discussion.
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/19 "2007-06-15T08:56:59Z")
Viewed as an internet-wide annoyance, but I can’t get enough of the guy: **kathaksung**. I would sponser his SDMB membership if he ever found his way over here.
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### Author:  [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-on-other-forums/408070/20 "2007-06-15T11:44:05Z")
[QUOTE=appleciders]
Really? Unless it’s a whole bunch of really, really long posts quoted in their entirety, I’d prefer nested quotes like that- it makes it easier to follow the thread of a conversation. I have much more of a problem with someone quoting an entire OP to add two words to a discussion.
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It’s not so bad when it’s linking up disparate posts throughout a thread, but when it’s essentially the last four, six, or nine posts that appear sequentially in the thread, that you JUST read, it resembles something more like the latter part of your sentence. It’s like having a group discussion with a ceaseless echo in the room. It wastes space on the page and doesn’t contribute anything - it’s just _noise_.
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