Responses to GQs that start “Just a WAG, maybe it’s blah blah”. If you don’t have a factual answer no one is forcing you to post a reply.
“Paging Blah Blah…” I hope we have more than one doctor, submariner, pilot, vet, or whatever on the board.
Oh thank you, yoyodyne. How in the hell did I not include this?
mmm
ETA: No offense to the doctor, submariner, pilot, vet, or whatever
Yeah, but we know some of the ones we trust. Lots of car guys on the board, but I’m going to page Rick if I have a question. Qadgop gets a lot of the medical questions, if for no other reason than I know him and trust him. everybody who has been here longer than a few weeks has formed opinions as to the trustworthiness of certain posters’ info. That’s just human nature.
Maybe you shouldn’t be accessing message board at work? :dubious:
I’m starting to think this only bothers me as NO ONE ever reprimands the poster who do it, not even the mods. I can’t stand when I’m reading a serious thread and someone will come in and post a joke. Not only that. They add nothing to the thread. Just an UNEEDED joke. Considering this threads are usually sad, the joke seems really tacky. Sometimes, it will open the flood gates and every other douchebag on the dope will make a tacky joke about the topic.
That bothers me the most, but other ones that make me want to leave the dope include:
-
You can’t call other liars even if they’re caught in a lie. So, since when does telling lies not make you a liar?
-
Stalkers. People who post something someone posted in another thread. It’s more creepy when the thread is not even from the year the stalker is posting in. It really makes me think some Dopers (yes is a specific sect of Dopers) are watching everything everyone writes and like favoriting it while stroking a white Persian cat and saying “This will aid me in the FUTURE! MUAHAHA!” MEW!
-
Is a tie. It’s but really the same concept. Dopers who compete over the stupidest things. They’re are two distinct groups. One is the miserable one. You know, you’ll write your dog died or is having a surgery and they’ll write “BOO HOO! Your dog died?! I was a orphan since the age of 2 and never owned a pair of shoes until I was 35 years old!”. Basically, no one can ever have it worse than them. God put these posters on the earth to suffer. No one can trump their suffering. The other group is secret braggers. They enjoying bragging about things more important having lots of money, houses, and designer goods. :rolleyes: They love bragging that they know how to say vegetable platter in 10 languages (2 of which are dead). They also majored in finger painting in college, because they don’t mind 100K debt because college is for learning. Anyone who took a useful major (and doesn’t have debt) is just ignorant and doesn’t get it. Even if you minored in something artsy fartsy, you suck according to the secret braggers. You ALSO MUST KNOW their great great great great nanny gram boo boo lived to be 250 years old. Don’t get me wrong. They’re not bragging. This information is so fascinating every Dopers has to want to know it. :rolleyes:
This is really small amount of people, but I think it’s just repeat offenders.
That would be pjatë perimesh in Albanian, and in Etruscan.
Maybe some people are *allowed *to access messageboards in their breaks at work, but are limited from streaming and image sites by the work gateway for other reasons and you should shut up because you don’t know what their individual circumstances are?
Just thought of another one I should have included:
"I’ll be in my bunk."
mmm
Did I say I read it?
Your whole post is good, but #11 is the clincher. Add to it people who can’t abide the occasional smiley or leet speak. Sorry, it adds a little color and expression to the typed word, it’s not the downfall of civilization as we know it. :rolleyes:
Little things that have annoyed me enough that I’ve resorted to using the ignore list so that I can read threads include: wall of text posts, no capitalization or punctuation in posts, responding to every single word or sentence of someone’s post, making threads/posts with no content (only a link), making threads asking stupid questions that the first google hit for that topic could answer.
Well, shit.
If the existence of threads, even if you don’t bother to read them, is annoying, I could list thousands of them. There isn’t enough room in two posts for me to cover it all. But, you see, what I do is I simply ignore them, not post about how butthurt I am because I have to see a mere 8 or so words on a screen on occasion.
If they’re the only ones you trust you might as well send a PM.
Good for you Airman!..ignore away!
I clicked way fewer boxes than I thought I would.
It’s very unprofessional to accessing a message board such as the Dope at work, even if it is your break. As a rule this is inapprioate to do at work.
I won’t shut up, Sierra. Sierra this isn’t the first time you’ve single me out. Do you have problem with me?
The reason I won’t shut up is because you put yourself out there. Don’t write your poor work habbits and Dopers won’t judge you.
You know jack shit about what’s appropriate at someone else’s workplace. There are plenty of workplaces where it’s expressly allowed in the IT rules for employees to access “personal” websites during their breaks. So unless you have an intimate awareness of the rules at someone’s workplace, you can’t say it’s a “poor work habbit” because you’re just pulling it out of your arse.
i take it that that’s shorthand for people who get a rise out of deriding others for liking something popular. that is, not simply just not having a tv, but actively telling everyone every chance you get, putting up flyers, entering people’s home to express your utter inability to comprehend the expenditure on a big screen tv, placing several tv commercial spots..
Just because it’s allowed doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it. Honestly, you have bigger problem than work place etiquette (sp?) if you HAVE to access the Dope from your job. Yes, some threads are interesting but I’ve never had the urge to accress the Dope while on company time.
Those who refrain from using COMPANY COMPUTERS for personal reasons are being more professonal. I have taken business courses and was told this by professors. I also worked with the owner of a company at my old job. He told me what he really thought of people who as he put it “wasted his resources”.
Seeing how hostile you are getting, I’m assuming you’re unable to curb your addiction and probably surf the Dope at work, too.
- Your breaks are not company time, they’re your time.
- I’ve been to business courses too, and I’ve discussed it with lecturers and teachers and the consensus has been the ‘Professional’ use of IT resources is in line with the IT rules - which includes being allowed to access personal websites in your time and restricting that access only to those times.
- Not everyone works in a workplace that’s as straight-laced and restrictive as yours. There’s at least one workplace I’m familiar with where it’s actually encouraged to use the internet and browse messageboards in downtime. Why? Because this workplace in particular was an internet helpdesk, using the same major pipeline as users to access the internet. And there was more than one occasion where employees on the internet discovered network issues due to being unable to access certain sites, or one particular instance where a customer service issue was discovered by an employee reading a tech messageboard, and they were able to escalate it through management, who passed it on to PR who then contacted the unhappy customer and resolved the issue. Yet there were still certain sites we were restricted from, because they were completely inappropriate for work.
- And seeing as you have no idea whether anyone who you’re posting your admonishments to “not use the dope on work time” to is in one of those situations, then perhaps you should can it, because you’re not the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful Oz.