It annoys me when long-standing posters (1000+) don’t seem to know the quote tag, so they make up their own way to do it. Especially bad when they’re doing a sentence-by-sentence rebuttal and you can’t even figure out who’s saying what.
…Also when people indent their paragraphs with periods. What’s up with that?
naming themselves Stinkpalm is the most annoying I can think of…
Oh this is easy, people who post with long long empty lines of nothing (Like one above, for example)
What’s the point? People can use the spoiler box if need to hide something.
Drive by posting/posters.
I hate when simple questions become a huge debate. haha
See almost any smoker thread. Or any thread that has to do with “Why do you drink” or “Why don’t you drink”.
BUT, I can say I’ve been guilty of that before! haha Then when I go back a couple days later and re-read my post I realize how sucked in I got!
Oh boy.
LOL
I hate that! When I see it I want to scream!
( I know why, people often use it after each line even when they said nothing funny.)
I was at the store the other day LOL
And I met this guy LOL
Who liked the same kind of Ice cream as me LOL
ARGGGggghhh! ::Throws monitor against wall::
Posting LOTS of simple/inane questions to GD in the same day
Obviously padding your post count by answering each counterpoint individually, rather than posting once with multiple quotes and answers – GRRRR
People who post points of view that differ from mine.
When the good folks answer questions with something like
“Google, well d’uh!” Thanks for the help a-hole.
I actually really like when people pepper their sentences with lol’s. It makes them look completely deranged, which I find amusing. It helps if you imagine them actually laughing out loud, alone in their room, at every point where they typed lol.
Note: that last post wasn’t intended to deliberately violate Janx’s pet peeve #4. It just worked out that way.
I forgot to mention my own pet peeve: people who follow up their own posts to correct very obvious typos. We don’t need another post to realize you meant “can” instead of “cna”. We know you know how to spell it.
People who follow up their own posts with unrelated posts are just fine, of course. 
Apart from what’s already been said (especially “LOL”):
When it’s assumed that just because someone said something that seems a bit unusual or seems to go against the hive mind, they’re a troll.
When you’re naming things such as “Best movies of the 90s” or whatever and someone puts down their choice and then says, “Period. Close the thread. We’re done here.” because what they said is just the final, definitive answer. I don’t know why, but it bugs me. Especially when their answer is so far from the objective one they think it is.
In a thread where someone says something like, “I just got a Gamecube. What are good games?” you inevitably have one guy who HAS to come in and say that the Gamecube sucks. Ditto for Star Wars, Buffy, etc. It’s one thing if the thread is debating the merits of the item, but when it’s asking for supplimental info about the item and someone STILL has to wander in and say how much it sucks, it really bugs me.
Team Pedantic. “I’m looking for early 20th century books like A, B, and C.” says the OP. A member of Team Pedantic then replies with, “Well, B was written on December 31st, 1899 at 11:00pm, so your question makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.” Suddenly a simple request for imformation that was pretty easily understandable by most people turns into an idiotic semantic argument.
** Giraffe ** wrote
I know what you mean. And that’s why I hate it. Specifically my sister is fairly new to the net (1 or 2 years) and does exactly that. The problem is she thinks she is quite the net sophisticate using things like LOL after each sentence. To me it just screams NUBIE! Also she isn’t the most confident person in the world, and when she gets nervous she has little “gallows giggle” that she uses in the same way and to me that giggle just screams PSYCHO!
Ahem.
What do I hate?
“Folk’s” who misuse “apostrophe’s”. I cannot stress to you enough how I hate misused “apostrophe’s”. They aren’t used to create “plural’s”! Apostrophes denote possession and contraction (thanks to kyla in boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2738619 for that wording). There is only one possessive form that doesn’t use the apostrophe, and “its” “it’s”.
If in doubt, ask Bob the Angry Flower for guidance.
I also hate people who underline stuff. Underlining is not a common typographical effect (ever see underlining in the newspaper?). Worse, underlining has come to denote a hyperlink on a web page. If you underline, I have to waste time mousing over your text to see if it’s a link. Stop wasting my time!
Abusing the fonts.
Dang! No blink tags. :o :eek: :o :eek: :o :eek:
I am bothered by smartass behaviour by relative newbies
It’s a dramatic pause.
You know, humor?
It’s not so much that my pet peeve is annoying, it’s just that I don’t understand why some posters on the SDMB do it (okay, it is a little bit annoying). For example:
Any post from Shodan is always followed by:
“Regards,
Shodan”
or ElJeffe:
“Jeff”
or Cliffy:
“Cliffy”
or SuaSponte
“Sua”
Posters! We know who you are simply by looking up to the left of each post that you submit. Why must you sign off each time in this redundant manner?
Drive by posting/posters.
What if you have only one comment you wish to write? What if you get busy with something? What kind of commitment is necessary to avoid drive by posting?
Thanks.
I believe the poster who said that was getting in a crack at the poster directly above him. He’s known as “Drive-by handy” because of his habit of not responding to corrections, questions, or comments about his posts.
One comment is fine, but if it’s a technical explanation, or a debatable point folks might want to interact and discuss it.
If you get busy with something, just explain that when you return. “Sorry to leave this so long…” It’s no problem. We do try to pretend we have lives, and some of us really do.
Just respond when people have questions, corrections, etc. the same as you would in a regular conversation.
My biggest pet peeves all come from reading the aint it cool news “talkback” section.
Stupid fanboy wars; Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars, Farscape vs Firefly, etc. Why enjoying one science fiction or fantasy franchise precludes the enjoyment of another is beyond me.
Also, people who post things like “television show _____ is not my style, therefore it sucks and should be canceled” or “I don’t like the style of author ____ and anyone who does sucks”. I don’t like everything out there, but I can tell the difference between something that does not fit my personal style and something that is absolute crap.
Personal attacks against actors and writers, ie “I hate Weasly Crusher, therefore Will Wheaton sucks!” No, you suck because you can’t tell the difference between reality and fiction.
Also, I hate it when people see a bad movie and then go online to decry it as “the worst movie ever made in the history of cinema” unless you are talking about a film by Ed Wood, it probably isn’t. Anyway, this sort of hyperbole doesn’t make for good criticism. Don’t tell me that it “sucked” tell me why you personally did not like it and let me make up my own mind.
Goodness. Thanks SmackFu. Why didn’t I already know that? Cool.
off to find other places to practice using the quote tag… hoo rah!
