# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/41 "2011-07-26T05:36:26Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Zombie threads resurrected by first time posters. HATE this! :eek: Thank you for mentioning it! Annoys me MORE when veteran posters do it! ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/42 "2011-07-26T06:19:33Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > More infuriating is when those of us who do give details of where we are and what we’re looking for, get suggestions such as “Oh, you can get xx yy at Kroger!” In a similar vein, whenever people ask for suggestions on Cafe Society, it seems like a lot of posters throw out whatever they were looking for and just post their favorite show/movie/etc. “Hey, I’m looking for some good shows, preferably with a sci-fi bent.” “How about The Wire, Breaking Bad, or Mad Men?” ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/43 "2011-07-26T06:44:17Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Voted other for… > > Claiming to have “won” a thread. > [@Anamorphic](#): > > …someone gives their answer and follows it up with, “Thread over.” or “Mods, you may feel free to lock the thread now.” It drives me nuts when people use the term “sir” in conjunction with this. “You, sir, have just won the thread.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/44 "2011-07-26T06:49:01Z")
> [@The Ultimate World Record?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ultimate-world-record/70497/3): > > “Hey, I’m looking for some good shows, preferably with a sci-fi bent.” Even worse, when they use acronyms that a newbie cannot be expected to understand. “Check out ST:TOS, ST:TNG, SW:TCW, B5, ST: DS9, BtVS,” and so on, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/45 "2011-07-26T07:35:21Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > 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. This is really common in sports discussions. And, as a corollary, I hate it when person A states that the very fact that person B is still arguing against them means that they are somehow emotionally overinvolved and rattled, and therefore person A has won the argument by default. But the thing that will make me leave a thread the fastest is when the discussion seems to devolve into being about posters’ “personas” – especially those that seem to come from old threads or even off-board – rather than the subject at hand. I don’t hold grudges and don’t much care about the digital personalities of people I’ve never met. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/46 "2011-07-26T07:50:34Z")
Israel theads. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/47 "2011-07-26T08:25:57Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Even better: > > OP: “I’m in Toronto, Canada. Where can I get XYZ at a reasonable price?” > > American Poster: "Kroger. Here’s their web site: [whatever]. > > OP: “Yes, and they do want much less for the item, but they will only ship to Canada for $100 via FedEx First Class, and then there are customs duties and brokerage fees, which will boost the cost to $50 over what I can buy locally.” Though at least you could conceivably get a tonne of advanced widgets from Kroger if you absolutely had to. I’m spoilering the next bit for longness and only being tangentially related to this thread: [spoiler]There was another board I was posting on when I needed some particular clothes I couldn’t source locally, so I asked for websites that would ship internationally _to Australia_, and I was willing to pay up to $100 plus a little more for shipping. First response “Wal\*Mart sells clothes for $2 a pair! You could buy 50 pairs!” What’s the first line on Wal\*Mart’s “International Customers” page? "The [Walmart.com](http://Walmart.com) website only ships orders to addresses within the 50 states, APO / FPO military addresses, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. " Then we scroll down: International Websites Argentina: www.wal-mart.com.ar Brazil: www.walmartbrasil.com.br Canada: www.walmart.ca China: [www.wal-martchina.com](http://www.wal-martchina.com) Japan: [www.the-seiyu.com](http://www.the-seiyu.com) Mexico: www.walmartmexico.com.mx Puerto Rico: [www.walmartpr.com](http://www.walmartpr.com) United Kingdom: [www.asda.com](http://www.asda.com) Notice something that’s NOT on that list?[/spoiler] The other thing that pisses me off, and it’s only here because I spend more time here than most other places at the moment. When someone posts who is clearly not in the US, and gets responses like “OMG are you an insomniac? Why are you posting at that time?” or “WTF winter? It’s summer lol!” People from other countries have been allowed on the internet for over 10 years now. It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that people are occasionally posting from timezones outside yours, or in places where the seasons are different. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/48 "2011-07-26T09:29:18Z")
this I hate ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/49 "2011-07-26T09:58:54Z")
Here’s an “other” - people who start interesting threads about something that’s going on in their life, everyone gets interested and then they disappear and we never found out what happened in their particular situation. And it’s not that they simply haven’t logged on … they’re still around, they just won’t finish what they started. Don’t tease me like that! Even if you decide you don’t want to talk about it anymore, at least post and say so! ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/50 "2011-07-26T10:03:52Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > … > Also, when someone ignores your post, yet posts “TLTR.” Explain to me the value of telling me that you couldn’t be bothered to read my post! After a certain length, unless you are a very compelling witer, one’s eyes start to glaze over. It’s in the hope that next time you’ll try to be more concise. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/51 "2011-07-26T12:05:50Z")
When people put Hi Opal! as the 18th option instead of the 3rd one it’s pretty annoying. So are posts that are walls of text. ---
**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 26, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/52 "2011-07-26T12:11:08Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > When your poll says “woo,” is that people who moronically praddle on about woo-things and pseudo-science? Or people who use the term “woo” to derisively refer to anything that doesn’t fit their myopic view of medicine and science? People who use the term “woo” to derisively refer to anything that doesn’t fit their myopic view of medicine and science. I also should have included the Great Wall O’ Text. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/53 "2011-07-26T12:20:48Z")
An OP that starts with “title says it all”, followed by one or more sentences demonstrating that the title did not say it all. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/54 "2011-07-26T12:30:59Z")
Og, um and its variants, arguing the example, and smilies are the main things that irk me. The smilies bothered me enough that I set up my PC to not even load them. ---
**Author:** ![Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambihelical_Hexnut)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/55 "2011-07-26T12:31:59Z")
It bugs me when people respond to other posts by typing their contribution above the quote. ---
**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, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/56 "2011-07-26T12:36:59Z")
What’s arguing the example? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/57 "2011-07-26T12:39:36Z")
Threadshitting drives me right up the wall, I forgot to mention that. It really irks me when we are talking about some TV show (see the Friends thread) and some people have to come along and talk nastily about how they never watch and TV; they’re too good for it. Funny, did I ask? But upon reading this thread it’s annoying me that people are annoyed by cat threads and the MMP. I don’t like the cat threads either but both of those are really easy to avoid; you never have to go in them and mostly are well-labelled. ---
**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, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/58 "2011-07-26T12:58:27Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > What’s arguing the example? The quickest thing I could think of: The “Could a plane take off from a treadmill” thread, if the OP had said, “for example, could a Boeing 747 take off from a 5000 foot treadmill?” and the reply was something to the extent of “You couldn’t even make a treadmill that long! And even if you did, Boeing wouldn’t allow their plane to be used in an experiment like that. You would need something like a…” Or, more bluntly, attacking/criticizing the example instead of getting the gist of the post and answering the OP’s question. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/59 "2011-07-26T13:05:48Z")
I read the linked thread, and I still don’t know what “DTMFA” is. ---
**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327/60 "2011-07-26T13:19:46Z")
> [@YourAdHere](#): > > 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. Good point. In GQ a quote should be followed by logical, temperate argument. If it is nonsense, you should explain what is wrong with it, perhaps with a cite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-biggest-specific-sdmb-annoyances/590327.md?page=4)