My list of annoying trends I see on the board. Post your own!
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[li]Why is it that in the Great Debates, and occasionally the Lesser Debates, there are people who always cut and paste the entire post they are referring to? If they are responding to the entire post, go ahead, but people still just take the entire post, dupilicate it, and add some smarmy remark/smiley that replies to one sentence of it. This is much more annoying when the person they are quoting is the OP, because they can just say “Responding to the OP:” and people will know what it means. What is even worse is when they quote the entire OP to resond in the second post! Bad, bad, bad.[/li]
[li]On a related vien, it does piss me off when people respond to an argument with no quotes at all, instead, just referring to the poster’s name, which leads you(or at least me, who doesn’t bother memorizing the name of who posts what) scrolling upwards to see what they’re responding to. [/li]
[li]People who use the spoiler tag or the spoiler spacing(where they press enter 10,000 times so you have to scroll down to read the spoiler) in:[/li]a) A thread already containing spoilers
b) A thread that says “spoilers” in the thread’s title
c) Hi, Opal!
[li]People who enter the “___ Appreciation Threads” and just give out some smarmy sarcastic remark about how much ____ sucks. Example: In the “Favorite SNL Recurring Character” thread, someone posts “The guy who plays the piano at the end so you know the stupid show is over.” What the fruck is he trying to accomplish? This is like driving around in a big Adolf Hitler float during the French military parades.[/li]
[li] People who lack a basic grasp of the English language and have read four words of the Bible, then accuse anyone who doesn’t take him/her seriously as being an idiot.[/li]
[li] Ad hominems in the GD.[/li]
[li] Ad hominems in the GQ. (?!)[/li]
[li] Death, dispair, violence, mayhem, etc.[/li]
[li] Long, rambling and pointless pit threads creating on a whim when the author sees some minor thing that bothers him/her. Like this one.[/li]
[li] The way that every minor question about abortion or Israel in the Great Debates becomes a long rambling heated war. Especially funny- when someone in the OP says “I don’t want this to become a debate” while posting a question about abortions killing 30,000 babies per millisecond, babies who could grow up to be nobel prize winners you baby-killing abortionist bastards, go to hell, you all are sinners in the eye of the lord, blah blah blah. I believe by this point the people who post these rants are the same every time, and since they realize no one has the attention span to wade through their repetitive citings(or lack thereof), they will just post a few select posts over and over again and hope no one notices.[/li]
[li] december coming within 50 yards of an Israel/Palestine debate.[/li]
[li] Israel/Palestine.[/li]
[li] It’s all the Brits’ faults, anyway.[/li]
[li] Abruptly ending posts because you[/li][/ul]
Lately, I’m getting most irritated with the Summer Influx of kids whose preferred mode of written communication is repeatedly throwing a cat on the keyboard. (I’m assuming about the cat thing, because the alternative is that that’s how they really write with their own hands, and that’s just horribly depressing instead of irritating.)
how about peope who feel compelled to share every facet of their life?
There is a thing called a personal journal, you know.
Sharing stories is fun, but realy folks, you don’t have to tell us everything!
there are some posters out there that I seem to know everything about:
their job.
their marital problems.
their children problems.
the problem with fungus on their toes.
the problems with neighbors.
what their favorites are.
Their favorite sexual positions.
And I have to ask myself if they realize how public this board is.
Because in some cases, the stories are really funny and I am amused.
But in other cases, I can see how easily some weirdo can use the info in a bad way.
also, to agree with bluesky, people that get all miffed because someone called them a name in the pit. hello? its called MPSIMS if you simply wanted to share.
and I second the Opal thing too.
It’s really getting old.
“This is The Pit, right? I can vent if I want to.” whenever someone’s rant meets a less-than-favorable reception.
The ‘all or nothing’ style of debate. You aren’t a fan of Dylan? Then you obviously listen to nothing but N’Sync and Spears. Have a problem with an SUV driver? You want to force everyone to drive Geo Metros.
Shrub. Fer crissakes, people, there are dozens of legitimate criticisms that can be made about the President and his cabinet, do you really need to resort to elementary-school name calling? It’s hard to get taken seriously in a debate when you start your opening remarks by saying your opponent just gave you cooties.
People who post in threads doing the thing that the OP was railing against deliberately.
In a post about how someone hates it when an argument is brewing and people saying “_____ pulls up a chair,” someone will invariably think they’re fucking hilarious by doing the same thing. I don’t think this is going to stop any time soon, but when it gets to multiple people doing the same thing in one thread, it’s totally lame.
Also, people responding to an argument with just the :rolleyes: smiley. If it’s so stupid, it shouldn’t be hard to refute with just a few words instead of one smiley. Maybe this just pissed me off because of the Ms. Boards fiasco, but I still see it here sometimes.
I automatically close any thread I’m reading wherein somebody posts that. It means nothing, you do NOT feel my pain and if that’s the best contribution you can make to the thread, you shouldn’t have posted.
Like, “Hi Opal,” let’s try to give it a rest, shall we?
Referring to oneself in the third person, particularly in the subject line.
Subject titles that use the word, “We” or “Our (country, etc)” assuming that all the posters on this board are American, too.
When the OP asks for advice URGENTLY and never returns to the thread. Not that I expect them to thank the people who respond, however, an update of what actually transpired would be nice.
Not everybody looks through the same rose-colored glasses as you do.
Please don’t tell me what I should do.
I hate when people do this.
People, do we need to argue every single point? I know some posters who cut and paste entire posts, point by point, with their “rebuttal” following each quote.
[li]I’ll third, or fourth, or whatever the aggravating as hell "Hi Opal! thing. It’s like telling a joke practically EVERYONE KNOWS and thinking it’s clever, cool, cute, and “hip.” (Blast, there went my alliteration.) It’s OLD…I see it in practically every thread involving a list…and it just makes the writer look LAME. ARRRRGGGH![/li]
[li]This is one of my long-standing SDMB pet peeves: “I’m leaving! You all suck! I’m going to quit the board and not come back! Watch me go! See, here I am! Can’t handle it! I’m leaving! [sub]what, no huge fuss?![/sub] I’m back! I’ll give it ONE MORE TRY! Who missed me?” UGH. Reality check folks: most people don’t really give a shit either way.[/li]
[li]Debates. I don’t mean GD–I never bother with that forum–I mean the ones that come into play in the Pit, or MPSIMS, or anywhere else people with two strong, contrasting opinions crash into each other. A little discussion, sure. But when in a thread that extols the virtues of Star Wars movies, don’t come in blasting the films and expecting to change minds. That’s just being a jerk. And if the thread is about how a Star Wars movie sucks, don’t come in blasting opinions and insisting it DIDN’T suck and expect to change minds. That also is just being a jerk.[/li]
[li]Massive posts (typically OPs) that are one enormous paragraph, typically poorly spelled, poorly punctuated, and poorly articulated. No matter how valid the OP, I always want to just edit the hell out of the post in my reply and just ask, “What the hell are you trying to say?!”[/li]
That is all. For now.
