# What Are Your Worst Message Board Habits? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 22, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534 "2004-10-22T02:34:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/21 "2004-10-22T14:16:34Z")
Not completi ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/22 "2004-10-22T15:10:55Z")
Stealing others’ jok ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/23 "2004-10-22T15:16:44Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Posting in the wee small hours of the night and then being afraid to return to the thread the next day. Me too! 🙂 One thread I remember in particular, I didn’t go back to for a week, then I was like, “Oh, that wasn’t _too_ bad.” I’m getting better. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/24 "2004-10-22T18:50:08Z")
I search through each board and open up several threads from each then read them and reply to the interesting ones. I assume this results in a lot of “CLAYTON\_e” on the top thread things. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/25 "2004-10-22T19:39:15Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Posting in the wee small hours of the night and then being afraid to return to the thread the next day. Yeah, this is me. **Harimad-sol** , you’re so entertaining we don’t mind if you come in just to say me, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/26 "2004-10-22T22:12:21Z")
My biggest flaws would have to be failing to [obey Neal Stephenson’s famous advice](http://apolyton.net/forums/printthread.php?threadid=113406) about arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet, failing to preview, and not checking to ensure that I’m not making a duplicate thread. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/27 "2004-10-22T22:24:22Z")
Posting a quick blurb response to something that references some movie or TV show with a connection to the thread that only I get and only I find funny. For instance, my first impulse was to respond to this thread with a stretched _Family Guy_ paraphrase, but it woulda been such a convoluted connection that nobody else woulda gotten it. I guess I’m just an indulgent little shit. (Responding with a second-line self-denigrating comment is also a pretty big habit, as is the third-line in-parenthesis addendum. Sigh.) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/28 "2004-10-23T01:28:02Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > Yeah, this is me. > > **Harimad-sol** , you’re so entertaining we don’t mind if you come in just to say me, too. 🙂 Thank you, my dear. I also use too many smilies, and I flirt a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/29 "2004-10-23T01:50:30Z")
Killing Threads, apparently. :smack: And not coming up with a new sig line. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/30 "2004-10-23T02:25:52Z")
But, **tpayne** , your sig line is so cool. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/31 "2004-10-23T02:34:16Z")
Not checking my spelling, as everyone can confirm. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/32 "2004-10-23T02:56:40Z")
Including irrelevant introspective rambling in every post longer than two sentences. Some might also say I talk about Tears For Fears too much, but that is clearly a scientific impossibility, so I refuse to acknowledge such accusations. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534/33 "2004-10-23T11:14:38Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Including irrelevant introspective rambling in every post longer than two sentences. Some might also say I talk about Tears For Fears too much, but that is clearly a scientific impossibility, so I refuse to acknowledge such accusations. The same rule of scientific impossibility applies to Ozzy and Black Sabbath. And the Ramones. Why other people don’t understand these simple rules is beyond me. I also have a habit of teasing posters that I really like and maybe crush on just a wee tiny bit. What am I, a third grader? :rolleyes: Also, overuse of that guy up there ^^, but usually only in reference to myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-worst-message-board-habits/270534.md?page=1)