# Um, **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571 "2000-05-04T16:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/22 "2000-05-08T14:59:02Z")
The thing that has consistently bugged me at this board and others are the members who are there only to build themselves up by tearing others down. They’re either whining about unfair treatment, patrolling for infractions by other members. and accusing the other posters of having it “in” for them. Their only attempts to contribute to threads are to critique the posters. Second pet peeve, those who constantly harp on the mods for not meeting the individual’s unattainable standards. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/23 "2000-05-08T15:07:37Z")
Smilies. Goddamn, smilies. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/24 "2000-05-08T15:15:24Z")
😃 😉 🙂 😮 😛 I hate smartasses post deliberately to piss another poster off. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/25 "2000-05-08T15:17:15Z")
I hate smartasses WHO post… etc. That, and a failed smilie. Can you tell it’s monday?? ---
**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/26 "2000-05-08T16:43:05Z")
I’d have to say it’s people who attack other’s “credibility” from a stupid answer on another forum. Take the individual posts as they come. A) Nobody here is running for office. We don’t care what’s in our closets. (Although mine is just repainted, and I like to point that out. No one thinks to comment on that, some how, but it’s a lot of work, with the shelves and tight corners and all.) B) Nobody here has researched all the topics they respond to. That’s **Cecil’s** job, and he even has helper bunnies. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Armageddon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mister\_Armageddon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Armageddon)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/27 "2000-05-08T18:50:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > OK, I’m gonna go out on a limb here. > > chiungtung. Registers today, and has so far only posted in the Pit and on threads about how the MB sucks. He’s either a very cynical lurker, or just a new incarnation of one of the posters that got banned over the last few days. > > And THAT’S what really sucks about this MB. > \*\* Interestingly enough, I find it annoying when someone with a low post count makes a good point, and then gets accused of being a troll despite the lack of any other evidence. But maybe that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/28 "2000-05-08T19:17:57Z")
I find it strange some people will put their real message in the signature, varying it for every post to add a little fillip. I often miss that unless I reread the Thread after I post. Then I see what they were driving at. ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/29 "2000-05-08T19:26:15Z")
Sign me up for being tired of “WTF”. Did you learn that at kindergarten? If you want to say, say it. If you don’t, don’t use lame babytalk. It’s reading as old to me now as “What the f\*ck” did 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/30 "2000-05-08T19:55:20Z")
I hate it when Catholics, just because they invented Christianity, think they can tell the true followers of God who we, the Messengers of the Lord, have to pray to on this plain of sin and sorrow. Oops, wrong board. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/31 "2000-05-08T20:06:53Z")
My least favorite message board quirk is when it crashes and I can’t get in to read or post. All the other shit I can ignore if I don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/32 "2000-05-08T21:25:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Smilies. > > Goddamn, smilies. > \*\* [newbie hijack] Why do some people hate smilies? [/newbie hijack] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/33 "2000-05-08T21:34:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Why do some people hate smilies? Do we need a reason? I hate menudo too; I’m sure I don’t need a reason for that. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/34 "2000-05-08T22:45:36Z")
I hate when ex-members have “BANNED” after their name and I don’t know why. I wanna know, damnit! Maybe there could be a full-length, detailed, explicit explanation afterwards? Just a thought… ---
**Author:** ![Soupy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Soupy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soupy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/35 "2000-05-09T00:23:30Z")
I’m kind of sad to see people’s posts slip out of sight in a couple of hours, even if they get some answers. Too many questions, not enough forums. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/36 "2000-05-09T02:26:25Z")
Just a word of advice, not a rant: **Use** the new “Preview Reply/Post” feature. It’s given me a number of second chances on smilies. ---
**Author:** ![It\_is\_to\_laugh-Non](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@It\_is\_to\_laugh-Non](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_is_to_laugh-Non)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/37 "2000-05-09T18:22:06Z")
I guess the thing that always surprizes me is when someone complains you are responding to the original post without having read every detail of all 128 intervening posts. You’ve probably read them over several versions and forgotten the details, is all. And the OP and last post are more important to the next person to enter the thread than all the sidewinding inbetween. ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/38 "2000-05-11T07:32:52Z")
Why do some people do this? . . . . . etc. Just DOTS until they run off the screen. What IS the point of that? ---
**Author:** ![meara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@meara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meara)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/39 "2000-05-11T19:02:13Z")
I roll my eyes at the _“Setting up a lawn chair and sitting back to watch the fun”_ messages, but they don’t really bother me. What bugs me most are complaints like: “I can’t believe all of you non-particle-physicists are even presuming to debate this. You are obviously ignorant of even the most basic thermo-nuclear-gigawatt-hyperdrive theory and have no idea what you’re talking about. Hopefully some real scientists will stop by to correct all of your errors since I don’t have the time right now.” e.g. this real, live example: > [@](#): > > First of all: all of you making military statements without proper study of military tactics (to say nothing of your improper grasp of historical fact) should keep quiet: you know nothing of relevance to the OP. Opinions are great, I suppose, but it does help to support them with something other than more ignorance. > > I won’t discuss the military question much, since my knowledge of tactics is relatively limited; perhaps we have someone in the Teeming Millions who studied military tactics professionally and can offer some decent commentary. Running a close second are things like: > [@](#): > > You fucking people… > Ugh, this is going to take some effort to clear up. > > First let me say this. In my 4 years of courses getting my BS in Aeronautical Engineering I have never seen… Geeeesh. If all debates were confined to experts in the subject, this would be a encyclopedia, not a message board. In many cases, there are no “experts” available and it is left to us to argue among ourselves and try to hash out some answers. If you know better about something, say so, but don’t insist that nobody had the right to debate it without you. On the other hand, if you have nothing to add and are not interested in the opinions of the unwashed masses, don’t read the thread!! ---
**Author:** ![\_D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/71c47a/32.png) [@\_D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_D)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/40 "2000-05-28T18:27:24Z")
UncleBeer: “Why do some people hate smilies? Do we need a reason?” me: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571/41 "2000-05-28T19:24:01Z")
I agree with the OP that people typing a sentence that starts with “Umm” is pretty idiotic. It’s like that Simpsons episode where Lisa is reading the note from Hans Sprungfeld/Springfield, and he apparently wrote out “HA HA HA HA” at the end. And thread hijacking in general irks me. If you are so turned off by the subject matter of the thread, ignore it. Why do you think you have the right to pollute other people’s conversations, because you don’t like what they are talking about? Go straight to hell, censor wanna-be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um/18571.md?page=3)