# What are your biggest specific SDMB annoyances? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327 "2011-07-25T23:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/1 "2011-07-25T23:46:01Z")
If any of these choices baffle you, you may find an explanation in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617677). If your suggestion from within the above mentioned thread is absent, that is likely because I could not phrase it in a way that would make it condensed enough to fit in as a poll question. Feel free to comment and offer up other annoyances; I’ll probably ask a mod to close the other thread. To the polls! mmm ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/2 "2011-07-26T00:35:02Z")
[Mod mod]Changed “you” to “your” in title.[/Mod mod] ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/3 "2011-07-26T00:44:51Z")
Just forgot one: cow-orker. Hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/4 "2011-07-26T00:48:33Z")
Uh, people who annoy about putting things in the right forum. Shouldn’t this be in About this Message Board? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/5 "2011-07-26T00:51:33Z")
Bad puns are what keep me coming back here! ---
**Author:** ![YourAdHere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@YourAdHere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YourAdHere)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/6 "2011-07-26T00:58:51Z")
I voted for the “nitpicking / semantics to avoid the real question” one. I often come here to read in my leisure time, hoping to learn something. Many times I will open what seems like it will be an interesting question / topic / thread in GQ. Often it seems like there will be about several dozen posts, but none of them really answer the question. The posts will often be along the lines of “well, your question is invalid anyways bc…” or “really, it depends on what you mean by ”, which is then followed by many posts of vitriolic bickering over the meaning of , or some other tangential issue. Meanwhile, the basic question of the OP remains unanswered. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/7 "2011-07-26T00:59:26Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Bad puns are what keep me coming back here! QFT ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/8 "2011-07-26T01:05:30Z")
So many choices! This is obviously the most annoying place around!😛 I voted for more than a handful of the choices, but I figure they just go with the territory. Even if you were to surgically remove all of these annoying things, they’d just be replaced by other, possibly \*\*\*more \*\*\*annoying things. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/9 "2011-07-26T01:07:00Z")
this is an internet message board. in terms of annoyances, what goes on here is way less irritating than other boards. most of the things listed in the poll are found at pretty much every other message board out there. If there’s anything that annoys me it’s the self-congratulatory stuff about how awesome and smart we all are. well, I hang around Ars Technica and they feel the same way about themselves. ---
**Author:** ![YourAdHere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@YourAdHere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YourAdHere)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/10 "2011-07-26T01:10:25Z")
Also, not mentioning any names, but (in GQ) the people who routinely quote other posters and write underneath “utter nonsense”…“complete bs”…“again, more nonsense” etc. There are some people who seem like they’re just WAITING to do it. Even if it _is_ “utter nonsense”, it seems rude to me, and it’s a total turnoff from posting here. I don’t want to seem like Ms. Manners over here, I just think there are more polite ways of disputing someone who probably meant well, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/11 "2011-07-26T01:16:47Z")
It doesn’t really fit the above- repetition. Example: Somebody asks in an OP “What are some movies about D-Day?” Post number 3 is: > [@](#): > > Saving Private Ryan is about D-Day. Post number 7 is: > [@](#): > > Saving Private Ryan. It’s about D-Day. Post number 21 is: > [@](#): > > Tom Hanks was in a movie about D-Day. It’s called Saving Private Ryan. It’s understandable when it’s a simulpost (and even 5 minutes or more apart can be a simulpost), but it’s irritating when 1- They’re hours or days apart (I’ve even seen zombie threads resurrected to say the same thing that somebody else had already said) 2- You haven’t added anything to the original post (i.e. “Actually Saving Private Ryan was about the Crimean War, but they changed it for the American release”) 3- It’s not a 10 page thread but one that has three pages or even less. If you don’t want to read every post in the thread at least do a CTRL+F to see if it’s been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/12 "2011-07-26T01:21:11Z")
Voted other for… Claiming to have “won” a thread. Posting “I see what you did there” when it is usually obvious to everyone reading the thread what was done. The annual pittsburgh steelers thread. The zealous SEC worship. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/13 "2011-07-26T01:37:05Z")
I wish I knew what _Poll: Poll:_ meant so I can decide if I want to vote for it. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/14 "2011-07-26T01:43:33Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It doesn’t really fit the above- repetition. > > Example: Somebody asks in an OP “What are some movies about D-Day?” > > Post number 3 is: > > Post number 7 is: > > Post number 21 is: > > It’s understandable when it’s a simulpost (and even 5 minutes or more apart can be a simulpost), but it’s irritating when > > 1- They’re hours or days apart (I’ve even seen zombie threads resurrected to say the same thing that somebody else had already said) > > 2- You haven’t added anything to the original post (i.e. “Actually Saving Private Ryan was about the Crimean War, but they changed it for the American release”) > > 3- It’s not a 10 page thread but one that has three pages or even less. > > If you don’t want to read every post in the thread at least do a CTRL+F to see if it’s been mentioned. This is why I chose “responding without reading”. When it’s something this simple, I don’t necessarily read every post either, but I do try to make it a point to do a page search for “ryan” before I post. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/15 "2011-07-26T01:45:58Z")
I should have mentioned this in the other thread but I didn’t think of it until now: Responding to someone’s complaint or argument with the assertion that the fact the person cares enough to make a post means that they spend too much time on the Internet and are therefore a giant loser covered in Cheeto dust and probably living in their mom’s basement. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/16 "2011-07-26T01:56:18Z")
I’ve mentioned this before, but my biggest annoyance is, in opinion threads, usually in Cafe Society, when the thread topic is something like, “What’s the greatest sports film of all time?”, and someone gives their answer and follows it up with, “Thread over.” or “Mods, you may feel free to lock the thread now.” Yeah, I know, they don’t really mean it literally, and they’re just trying to be cute. I still find it highly annoying to insinuate that your opinion trumps everyone elses. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/17 "2011-07-26T02:04:37Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > I’ve mentioned this before, but my biggest annoyance is, in opinion threads, usually in Cafe Society, when the thread topic is something like, “What’s the greatest sports film of all time?”, and someone gives their answer and follows it up with, “Thread over.” or “Mods, you may feel free to lock the thread now.” Yeah, I know, they don’t really mean it literally, and they’re just trying to be cute. I still find it highly annoying to insinuate that your opinion trumps everyone elses. Yes,yes,yes. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/18 "2011-07-26T02:05:22Z")
Zombie threads resurrected by first time posters. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/19 "2011-07-26T02:06:55Z")
um… You have “All lowercase posts”, but where’s teh “All uppercase posts” :rolleyes: Just sayin’ (I voted for _Semantics nitpicking & avoiding the real topic_ and _Responding without reading thread_. I almost voted for _All lowercase posts_, but really it’s indecipherable posts with long run-on paragraphs, not the lack of capitals) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/20 "2011-07-26T02:09:55Z")
Thought of another one,threads that start with “In Which”.Won’t even open them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327.md?page=2)