Er, yeah. Partly for the whole ‘Hi Opal’ thing, but mostly for other things. But you post good posts often enough that I can’t plonk you, like I did the half dozen users who really annoy me.
I would have just listed them, but that’s against the rules.
:’(
awwwwwwww
The trick is, you read the words before and after the acronyn and then guess what common phrase makes sense in the middle. Works like a charm!
Pile-ons in which the same people are guaranteed to show up over and over and over.
The thread starts. It’s almost instantly to three pages. By the time it gets to the end of the third page, it’s the same six people sucking each other’s dicks in a congratulatory daisy-chain while the OP flutters around in the background. It doesn’t matter whether the OP was right or wrong at this point; all that matters is that the folks who are still. fucking. bitching get to give each other high-fives and giggle about how clever they are. Occasionally an intelligent post will make its way in, but is is rare and they are generally lost in the shuffle.
Attention whores who aren’t willing/able to admit that they are attention whores. Here’s a clue: If you post more than three threads in MPSIMS within a couple of months with your own handle in the title, you are an attention whore. If you’re an attention whore, just fucking admit it if you’re called on it. IMNPFHO, if someone screams “YOU’RE AN ATTENTION WHORE!!” and you reply “…and?” you immediately become someone I’m still willing to read about, rather than a fucking clueless whiny waste of skin.
People always saying, “No one said you had to read the thread!” “No one asked for your opinion!” If you don’t want me to read it and, after reading it, offer my opinion…then send it to the people you WANT to read it in email. “But someone I don’t know might want to read it!” Then don’t bitch when they do, just because they don’t happen to agree with you.
The goddamned hero-worship. I agree that X, Y and Z are all clever, but they are clever in the SAME WAY EVERY TIME. I can do some of that stuff too, but I don’t post it because I wouldn’t want the inevitable “Look at Hama, trying to be like <poster>.” Then again, if I have any self-esteem whatsoever, I should post and be damned; I know I have the ability, and it’s only other people’s small-mindedness that would make any of them think I was imitating another person, or trying to “steal his/her fire.” So I guess that one’s pretty much my own fault. 
Posting every goddamned thing about what happens in your life. So you want it on the Internet? You want a public journal? Go to Livejournal or Deadjournal or Diaryland or if you’re more about self-publishing, try Blogger. I understand that MPSIMS is “Mundane, Pointless Stuff I Must Share,” but the word a lot of people seem to miss is “MUST.” I’m a grandma! I felt I had to share this good news. “I farted at my daughter and she giggled” is not something I’d think someone would be driven to share…but shit like that is half of the goddamned forum. Becoming a grandmother? MPSIMS. Being irked at my mother-in-law? My Livejournal. One I MUST share; the other, eh…meh.
As a side note…I am an attention whore. I WANT people to go check out my weblog, and I WANT people to praise me for my work on the Tattoo Pages (which I need to update, btw). But…I can admit it. In my sig it SAYS “feed my ego.”
shrug My dollah’s worth.
Hamster references. We know the boards are slow. I’m tired of hearing about the hamsters, mice and other various rodents people think are responsible.
Really. We all know that Sapphire Bullet is responsible, not the hamsters.
I’m tired of the same people doing the same things, over and over and over. Numpty.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU].
My personal favourite is the type of poster that will just copy and paste every inane story about a cracked toenail or the most horrific bodily secretions to their LiveJournal, their homepage, and 27 message boards including the Straight Dope.
I guess some people need a lot more validation than others.
This one’s been mentioned before, but I like to cover it as well. Correcting someone’s spelling as a form or “proof” that their argument is no longer valid, and because you caught their mistake, you now win the argument. I’m sorry, but if in reading someone’s post, you can’t distinguish that they meant “then” when they wrote “Thet,” you’ve got bigger issues to deal with.
And the fucking “Ignorance Police.” I’ve been slammed by them once, and I’ve seen them hit others before. They’re these people that sit there and proclaim that “The sole purpose of this board is to fight ignorance.” The problem is, in doing so, they often glance over the actual argument at hand and start bitching about something completely irrelivant. And I’m sorry, for GD’s, yeah, that’s works; even a rant in the Pitt could be usefull, as is GQ; But I fail to see how fifteen different threads in IMHO about various bodily functions and the size of one’s penis have ANYTHING to do with “fighting ignorance.” The board’s for having fun. Sure, if someone attacks a belief of your’s and you can recognize that they don’t know what they’re talking about, then speak up and show them where they’re wrong. But don’t jump on every little over-exageration or stupid comment as though you’re fighting some crusade.
GODDAMN IT!!!
YOU’RE ALL TALKING ABOUT ME, AREN’T YOU!?
**ADMIT IT!!! **
:: runs off, sobbing ::
I also don’t like it when posters have melt-downs over comments made in passing, when people take things to personally and when people you CAPS or BOLDING or TOO MUCH PUNCTUATION!!! to substitute for arguements.
Fenris
GODDAMN IT!!!
YOU’RE ALL TALKING ABOUT ME, AREN’T YOU!?
**ADMIT IT!!! **
:: runs off, sobbing ::
I also don’t like it when posters have melt-downs over comments made in passing, when people take things to personally and when people you CAPS or BOLDING or TOO MUCH PUNCTUATION!!! to substitute for arguements.
Fenris
Also, I hate it when you thought you hit “preview”, edit the post, then post only to find that the preview posted
I hate hate hate this trend of people inserting huge spaces in their posts so you have to scroll down to get to the end of the post. (See Fenris’s post above. Sorry Fenris.)
I especially hate it when they say something jokingly, then they insert 17 spaces and then they put in a winky smilie. Yeah, ha ha. Very clever.
first off, let me say : :rolleyes:
Secondly, when posting in any forum here, if you’re posting your opinion, your personal history etc, sure, it’s done for amusement etc.
The incident our friend here is referring to is located here where he posted the oft repeated, commonly believed wrong information about the McDonalds Coffee Suit, was called on it and got bent. His defense was, essentially, ‘everybody remembers it that way, so what if it wasn’t true?’.
So, let me repeat it for you since you didn’t seem to understand the issue. If you’re posting about your navel lint, your dog’s latest amusing incident, your opinion about the most recent teen flick, yea, it’s all for fun. However, if you posted fucking false information in any thread (or non fucking false information for that matter), you will get called on it and especially if it’s oft repeated false information.
(and while often folks will correct spelling etc., make fun of the poster for a particularly interesting spelling faux pas, I’ve never seen anyone claim ‘victory’ of an arguement while because of a spelling error).
Post count parties. That is all.
Me. I “seem” to have developed this distressing “habit” of using “quotation marks” when “they” aren’t really “necessary”, and I should probanly use some of the coding functions a [sub]little[/sub] more sparingly.
Amen, I can’t stand that. But what I especially hate is when people parse a quote to death. A poster will write a paragraph, then another poster will come in and quote each individual sentence in that paragraph with a snappy reply after each seperately quoted sentence. Or worse, just a :rolleyes: smilie. It makes the post far too long and disjointed. Posters need to get their thoughts together and write a fucking paragraph instead of . Don’t quote individual sentences out of context as a showcase for “wit” [sub](damn, I’m doing it again)[/sub]
I also hate it when I hit “submit” instead of “preview” - and when posters immediately post after themselves to explain an error most people could have figured out the reason for on their own.
When people make a spelling error and say that they could’ve fixed it if they previewed the post.
people posting for no other reason than to pad their post count! :smack: