questions that could really be answered by spending 2 minutes looking in up on Google.
answers that don’t actually answer the question, eg
OP “How much does a giraffe weigh?”
Answer “I don’t know about a giraffe, but a hippopotamus weighs 1,000 lbs”
-When people become rude in GDs just because I don’t have the same opinion as them.
-When people in GD become ludicrously abstract or technical so that they don’t have to abandon an otherwise indefensible point.
-When someone posts something stupid, starts getting torn to shreds, and never defends/apologizes/concedes. He just doesn’t reply.
-The fact that stupid, deliberately inflammatory OPs tend to get lots of attention.
-When people think that having a big name say so makes it true. For example, in GD people are fond of quoting the Founding Fathers to prove their point. Who cares Thomas Jefferson (everyone’s number one quotable founder) said on that subject? That was 200 years ago. Let it go. Unless he (or whoever they’re quoting) wrote it into law, or unless the question specifically askes “What would the Framers have thought about this?” it has no relevancy. Logic, examples, science, and THOUGHT prove things. Not quotes.
I just came within a hair’s width of doing a political snipe based on that comment. I’m sure some people will know what it means, but I’m not going to post it.
Umm…not to hijack this, Qwerty, but quotes from, for instance, the Founding Fathers, tend to demostrate their THOUGHTS on a given subject, which, if that subject has to do with the laws of the United States of America, are the very definition of relevant.
I disagree with this one. I don’t have a magic number, but I can tell you that if someone I know and respect (or even just know) comes to the Pit with a serious rant about another poster or the Board, I’ll give them much more credit/respect than I’ll give someone who showed up and his/her first post is a complaint about the place.
Remember this bozo ( ArturoBandini )? He shows up, starts bitching about how none of us are Cecil-worthy (he is though) and then proceeds to have more-or-less a meltdown. And, IMO, he’s not atypical, sad to say. Sure newbies who are bitching can have valueable insights, but more often they’re just here to piss on the carpet.
People who do a half-assed job of reading my post, toss an insult in for good measure, and then actually post an argument that agrees (or comes very close) with what I was saying. Or they completely missed the point of my post and are arguing against a comment I didn’t even make.
That’s one of the main reasons I quit hanging out in the Pit. looks at board title Oh, shit!
One shoule never let grammer (or spelling) get in the way of what one wants to say (Idon’t remember who said that, but since I can’t spell, I like it).
Talking about yourself in the third person- yeesh it’s just sad.
Smiley abuse.
I am not saying high to Opal now, that’s for sure. . . .
Signature lines were every complementary post about you is quoted.
Knock-off threads in Cafe Society and the Pit. Also those stupid “who would win posts” half of which were rip-off’s of a famous site dedicated to that nonsense.
Spike worship in Cafe Society (probably just jealousy on my part ).
Hyper-sensitive posters just itching for a fight.
“No typo” perfect posters making me look bad (I do not any help with that thank you) come on, at least post a “hte” instead of a “the” every now and then.
People in GD bloviating on for pages about how the world has worked and should work whose understanding is based, not on studies of history, philosophy, and political science, but on having read a couple of books by Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein.
Multiple posts.
Multiple posts. (Is there no software gimmick to find and dump these?)
Apologizing for typos. We know what you meant.
Refusal to use capitals.
Ad hominems.
The continued lack of Smashie in the smilies list.
I hate it when I’m reading a thread, and start to think “Hey! I have an opinion about the OP! I have some knowledge! I can cite some actual facts!”
Then I read a little farther and see that someone else has already posted my opinion. Only they had better references, superior phrasing, and a sharper wit. Plus they said it in a paragraph less than the OP I was composing in my head.
You smart, speedy people keep sinking my battleship, dammit!