What? I can’t believe no one has mentioned this one. How can we have gotten all the way through this thread and no one has mentioned this one. Worst. One. Evar:
Sincerely:
JohnnyPosterWithUsernameThatScrewsUpTheMainForumPage.
[sub]The total # of things I hate in this post: 7[/sub]
I don’t know which boards you’ve been posting to where you encountered this, but some boards have bugs that mean the quote tag will only work once or twice per post. I have encountered this on versions of YaBB and Ikonboard, for example.
Mine are:
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[li]People who get mad that you dared to argue with them about anything, and then accuse you of getting emotional about it.[/li][li]When someone says something stupid, you rebut (nicely), they say something even dumber in response, and then the board admins come in and lock the thread before you can say anything else because “arguing is not nice.”[/li][li]Board admins who lock threads for stupid reasons, like “the question has been answered” or that no one has posted to the thread in a week.[/li][li]Board admins who (this just happened to me), come into a thread, announce that they are not going to read the thread because it is too long, give an answer that has nothing to do with what we are talking about, or were ever talking about, and then close the thread. Grrrr!!![/li][/ul]
There are more, but those are the ones on my mind currently.
People that intentionally misunderstand what your saying.
Guy A: if the cat is real, where was it then!?
Guy B: it was on the table.
A: what was?
B: it…
A: what is this it? you need to define your terms.
B: its a pronoun… of the word you were useing
A: oh? do you think I need an english lesson?
B: no, you asked a question, I answered it!
A: no, you gave me some english lesson I already know!
B: I hate you
A: personal attacks!
Yeah, that episode was okay, but my single favourite was “Inner Light” because Patrick Stewart got a chance to run an actor’s emotional gauntlet and was equal to the task.
Oh, I’m sorry, did I post that in the wrong thread?
This isn’t really a problem on this board, but it’s very common on many other boards with a high population of young, male teenagers.
There’s this kind of low level hostility permeating everything. Posting on one of these boards is like being in the middle of a war zone, probably in some sort of mine-field. If you take one step wrong, a billion people will viciously insult you completely out of the blue, without any explanation whatsoever.
It’s bizarre.
Most of the people on these boards are semi-literate and their insults are on the lines of Jeff Ks. But even more annoying are the slightly more intelligent breed. These are the ones who believe they are God’s gift to mankind and that they know everything. In this world they live in, randomly insulting and baiting people is the height of hilarity and sophistication. Jumping on some newbie’s case is the ultimate proof of their genius.
It’s really rather sad.
So I was talking with my parents the other day. They were telling me about my brother and some of the chores he needed to do around the house. He was arguing with them and they told him to take out the trash because trash day was coming up tomorrow. Well he turns to them, looks them both straight in the eye and says…
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Wait for it!
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“I’m not taking out the trash tonight. I’ll do it tomorrow morning.”
Easily my greatest pet peeve. I think these offenders should have their own derogatory name, in the vein of “troll.” Plus that post will always end up hijacking the damn thread so much that the next post that addresses the OP seems strangely out of place, almost like it’s a hijack itself.
I think by form, you meant possessive pronouns as a whole, not just the word “its”, but I too hate superfluous apostrophes with all of my heart, so I feel obligated to point out to any offenders reading this that the rule also applies to the possessive pronouns “his”, “her/hers”, “their/theirs”, “my/mine”, and “your/yours”. They get no apostrophes because they are already possessive- hence the name, possessive pronouns. Thank you.
Ditto on long, pointless sigs. I see this on message boards with a religious theme a lot: a sig consisting of a prayer, the chorus of a contemporary Christian song, a row of animated gifs, an epigram taken from a cutesy refrigerator magnet or throw pillow, the third verse of a contemporary Christian song, a jpg of the poster’s favorite singer, a Bible verse, a big-ass animated gif, another Bible verse, and the poster’s great big colorful screen name in some swooping cursive font.
And it’s not just posted here and there; it’s appended to each and every post, even if the poster replies eleven times within one thread. Imagine scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling through a five page thread to read maybe 23 lines of relevant text.
Asking a question then getting irate because the completely truthful and accurate answer wasn’t what they hoped it would be or means they lose the dumb drunken bet they made last night.
People who double post.
What’s the semi-colon supposed to be? dimples?
But nobody double posts. Everyone triple posts. Two double posts and one apology to everyone with at least half an eye who can plainly see a double, now triple post.
In fairness to the mere double posters, it’s oftentimes a computer glitch that causes it, not them getting impatient and hitting “submit” another time.
grr. stupid smileys. It should have been (^_^;)
People who quote the whole post of someone above, and thats it.
They dont add anything else, just a copy of a post that was posted two minutes ago.
Why godammit? WHYY?
I know it is supposed to mean that they agree wholeheartedly, but it seems like they have no mind of their own when they just clone something like that.
LOL
Quite right. Thanks, sugaree.
I hate it when someone says, “Long time lurker, first time poster.”
On second thought, it’s the porn in graphic signatures that pisses me off the most. If I wanted porn, I’d look for it.
People with Flash movies, animated gifs, enormous images as their signature. Can’t happen here, thank god.
Oh, and even more annoying: when those people double post and slow the loading times down about 200% for every post they make in a thread. Bastards.
Posting incredible amounts on your first day.
Like I did, with 76 posts the first day.