The software here won’t let you make an all-uppercase post.
This is when someone posts a poll and manually adds ‘poll’ to the title, not knowing that it automagically gets plopped there. Thus, the title ends something like: Poll: Poll: What’s your favorite song from the Abbey Road medley?
These are both good ones; I would have included them if I had thought of them.
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Links with no description. 'Cause at work I’m completely blind from the contents of Youtube and picture-sharing sites.
Posters who continually remind us of how “big and bad” they are.
Eh. . . note to self. . . turn off webcam when on the Dope.
Hey, that could be anyone’s basement, for all we know.
:smack:
Oh, yeah, I forgot that one too. Gets under my skin fast.
Wish I had thought to add: posters who open a post which clearly states the content, i.e. “Cute Kitty Pics”, and then bitches about the content. Just don’t open the damned thing and leave the cat lovers to enjoy it!
Threads asking for location-specific advice from posters who do not display, or give details of, where they are.
Thought of another one - asking or posting very location specific information, but failing to indicate your location.
“Does anyone know of a good dry cleaner?”
Uh, yeah, but it just might be 1500 miles from you. Do you still want an answer?
"I saw this bird today - It’s big and yellow and makes a call that sounds like ‘Squee! yakka yakka golfball.’ Anyone know what it is?
“I hate the f’ing weather around here. Anyone know of a place that is about 20° cooler in the summer with less humidity?”
And **Cunctator ** beats me to the punch, while having his/her location labelled with city, state, and country clearly in the location field.
I will say for the record that I will indicate my location if I ask a question of this type.
Oh, yes, this is especially terrible in threads about driving & cycling. It really does matter if we are talking about NYC or rural West Virginia.
While I wouldn’t touch the MMP threads with a ten foot pole, I like that they only have one at a time, and that they are clearly marked so that I can avoid them.
I posted “Other”: you can take away my “Og” right after you take away their “Cthulhu”, which happens right after you oust those other guys’ “Flying Spaghetti Monster”.
Nothing personal against Cthulhu or tFSM–I just think it would be fair if we were all deprived equally. :smilie-face code that will probably annoy someone:
I voted “other”.
This place is a troll’s paradise and it’s all fueled by naive idiots that think they’re getting things accomplished by arguing with what amounts talking points bots and/or people that would have been banned in teenage message boards for the blatant trolling.
Oh yes! And sometimes even when they do, it is questionable. Is the poster who claims to come from “WA,” from the state of Washington, or from Western Australia? Is somebody who admits they are posting from “VT” actually posting from Virginia Tech or Vermont? On an board such as we have, with posters from many places, I think it is important to specify.
Missed the edit window.
Anyway, another Great Moments in Misunderstanding Location occurred when a poster named Queen Bruin once said something to the effect of, “Well, I guess everybody knows where I’m from, based on my username.”
Most people responded with “Boston?” Based of course, on the Boston Bruins NHL hockey team, which is well-known to international hockey fans.
Nope, Boston was incorrect. It turned out that the location was California, and was based on the UCLA Bruins. Something those of us outside the United States could not be expected to guess from her username.
Please, people, don’t assume that your regional/college/etc. sports team is known internationally. You may find, as our Queen Bruin did, that they are not; and in fact, may be mistaken for somebody else in the wider sphere.
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?
Both are annoying. It also sounds like an anti-Asian slur, which is fitting since accupuncture and Chinese Traditional Medicine are often called “woo.” 
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!
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!”
OK, what’s a “stick and slipper” joke?
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.”
Here’s the kicker response:
American Poster: Well, sucks to be you. In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, we don’t put up with that shit.
OP: 
Folks, we don’t make our laws, and we may not agree with them. If we say it’s more expensive to follow your advice, just leave it, okay?
Another “other” that annoys: threadshitting! Stay out of threads you can’t add anything productive to.