# Your SDMB Habits and Pet Peeves **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529 "2003-08-20T21:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/41 "2003-08-22T05:08:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nvme77 \* > My peeve with myself is that I havent learned to do neato things like vb links smiley faces and other creative curliecues. This is the only place I visit outside of my email- where all I do is delete **Aslan of Narnia** , I must give credit where credit is due. **Nvme77** wrote this, I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/42 "2003-08-22T05:50:16Z")
I agree with a lot of what **dwc1970** said. I like well constructed easy to read postings as opposed to some rambling mega-paragraph. I don’t mind spoiler boxes so much - **unless** they are totally pointless such as **Spoiler** - the ship sinks at the end of the movie “Titanic”. More Peeves Lack of clarity in a posting such as - In the movie “TLFBMR” they stole the plot from an episode of “MWAWTHAB”. Posting huge quotes of a posting to respond to one sentence. As others have said, signatures get very stale very fast. People posting threads that could _easily_ have been researched on Google or a good reference site. e.g. “Anybody know what ‘faux pas’ means?” Forums I visit most - GQ, Cafe and MPSIMS ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/43 "2003-08-22T13:37:46Z")
Pet Peeve: Duplicate threads. Not like when the hamsters or your twitchy fingers result in multi-posting the same thread, but I mean this: **GQ** “Is Uvula Gladwyne Dead?” **GD** “Why Do People Care that Uvula Gladwyne Is Dead?” **Cafe Society** “Uvula Gladwyne’s Dead!” “Uvula Gladwyne, 1910–2003” “Oh, No, I just Heard that Uvula Gladwyne Died!” **IMHO** “What’s Your Favorite Uvula Gladwyne Movie?” **MPSIMS** “Uvula Gladwyne’s Dead!” “Uvula Gladwyne, 1910–2003” “Oh, No, I just Heard that Uvula Gladwyne Died!” **BBQ Pit** “Jeez, I hated Uvula Gladwyne” “The Woman’s Dead—Stop Being Mean to Her!” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/44 "2003-08-22T14:00:29Z")
I pretty sick and tired of the ‘Vs’ threads. I’ll be really happy when they have run their curse and we are done with them. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/45 "2003-08-22T16:15:08Z")
Uvula Gladwyne. That’s great. I just love the way it rolls off the tongue. Uuuuuvulaaa Gladwhine. So now we need a Staff report on her, so that you can add: **CoSR** : Who was Uvula Gladwyne, really? Anyone else have a sudden urge to name a daughter “Uvula Gladwyne”? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/46 "2003-08-22T16:24:00Z")
I have to admit, I stole the name from P.G. Wodehouse: in his story _The Rise of Minna Nordstrom_, it’s one of the stage names she briefly considers. . . ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/47 "2003-08-22T16:26:00Z")
I hate when people respond to a thread without actually reading the other posts. I hate that the board is so slow at times and then you find out that the hamsters double posted afterall! I don’t like flamers! Flamers are mean people. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/48 "2003-08-22T16:43:09Z")
It bugs me when people post IMHO stuff in MPSIMS. The following are threads which by subject, at least, seem to be IMHO: * * * This started out amusing. By the last line, it wasn’t. At all. Resolved: 90% of religious people Your SDMB Habits and Pet Peeves Has anyone here dealt with depression? Stupidest school supply Issued My 17 Year Old An Ultimatum…Should I Renig? Prosiac Questions about the Alabama Supreme Court/10 Commandments Sculpture So, when was the last time you pretended that a flashlight was a lightsabre? The brilliant effing ELF–setting fires protesting pollution what wierd name will they come up with next?? * * * But that’s really minor and not even worth the effort it took to compile the list. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/49 "2003-08-22T16:49:13Z")
I read/post the bottom four thread groups, and lurk on GD. I’m not deep or researched enough to post there. I like watching the combatants go for each other’s throats, but lose interest when they resort to nitpicking. There are some amazing people here, and I’m glad to be in their company. My only real peeve here is the “I can’t believe nobody has mentioned…” posters. Like say in Cafe Society, somebody starts a thread called **Most underrated rock guitarists** and everybody chimes in with their candidate, describe how cool he is, then the inevitable squawking soapbox percher flaps in with: > [@](#): > > I can’t believe nobody has mentioned **Fleabutt Itchypubes**! What, do you people live in caves??? Haven’t you at least listened to a radio in the past 20 years??? How can you have a thread like this and not mention **Fleabutt Itchypubes**? So. Go. Ahead. and. MENTION him you MO-RON!!! ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/50 "2003-08-22T16:50:42Z")
Bruce Daddy said It bugs me when people post IMHO stuff in MPSIMS. The following are threads which by subject, at least, seem to be IMHO: Issued My 17 Year Old An Ultimatum…Should I Renig? * * * I put it in MPSIMS because I thought it was mudane and I feel I am at my witts end so it is pointless. I didn’t think the thread was all that interesting or worthy of putting it in IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/51 "2003-08-22T17:11:18Z")
Yeah, I can understand why people do it. MPSIMS is twice as big/busy as IMHO and it seems like the load could be split a little more. And nobody get pissed that I mentioned their thread subject here, it was at a random time and I didn’t even look at the poster. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/52 "2003-08-22T18:21:40Z")
My major pet peeve is with people who have post counts above 100 who haven’t figured out the quote tags. So instead they do some annoying usenet thing: \> This is the stuff the other poster said. Things and stuff. Blah \> blah blah blah blah. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. or, worse, try to simulate it ASCII-style: * * * ## QUOTE: This is the stuff the other poster said. Things and stuff. Blah blah blah blah blah. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What makes me nuts is when posters with a debate-by-dissection style do this. For the love of mike, all you ever do is quote, so why don’t you take a couple of minutes to learn how to quote properly? Square-bracket que yoo oh tee ee square-bracket! How hard is that?!? And **Bruce Daddy** , one of my other mild peeves is that the distinction between IMHO and MPSIMS is maddeningly vague to me. I’ve had threads moved from one ot the other, usually with no more explantion than “This is more of a MPSIMS thing . . .” or “. . . an IMHO thing . . .” and I am almost completely mystified. Too many posts fall into some sort of neverland between “frank exchanges of views” and “general chatter.” If you express a “great thought” and ask people what they think, have you crossed the line into a “poll”? ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529/53 "2003-08-22T21:55:01Z")
i always assumed IMHO means mundane pointless stuff that you want other’s opinion on; while MPSIMS is the ‘others’ forum for everything else… i like to open all threads of interest in their own separate windows at the same time i hate it when people are having so much fun they have to clean up their keyboards so often\* - i know, i know. i haven’t been here long enough for a pet peeve yet ok? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sdmb-habits-and-pet-peeves/196529.md?page=2)