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Things forum members do that drive you mental?
JonJonB
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What things do people on here do that, even though they're competely within the rules, rub you up the wrong way? They might not even know what they're doing is majorly annoying, but you want to stab them in the eyeballs all the same. I have about a billion, but just a couple to start with.
I hate when someone starts a thread with a really long post, then the first reply is someone quoting the entire thing just to give a one line response. Often you then get several people doing this, so you have to scroll down past that same first post again and again.
I really hate when you get several nerdlingers rushing to post a thread about a major disaster or celebrity death, all wanting to be the first one to get the topic on DS, as if there's some respect due for doing this. This always results in several threads about the same thing, too.
There's one thing I dont so much hate but it creeps me out a little. When people are discussing something in a topic, and one poster starts making references to another's personal life (family/work related matters, stuff like that), from past threads where the person has shared these details. "Aren't you the one who had another dispute with your boss about so-and-so" or "I know you said in another thread your mother is an alcoholic". Just a bit too stalkerish for me.
Also, anyone who posts "I've sent you a PM" just needs to...die.
Hopefully if we avoid referencing users by name or being too specific with certain incidents this won't result in a flame war or Mods having to step in. I've got loads more pet hates but I'll see how it flies first.
I hate when someone starts a thread with a really long post, then the first reply is someone quoting the entire thing just to give a one line response. Often you then get several people doing this, so you have to scroll down past that same first post again and again.
I really hate when you get several nerdlingers rushing to post a thread about a major disaster or celebrity death, all wanting to be the first one to get the topic on DS, as if there's some respect due for doing this. This always results in several threads about the same thing, too.
There's one thing I dont so much hate but it creeps me out a little. When people are discussing something in a topic, and one poster starts making references to another's personal life (family/work related matters, stuff like that), from past threads where the person has shared these details. "Aren't you the one who had another dispute with your boss about so-and-so" or "I know you said in another thread your mother is an alcoholic". Just a bit too stalkerish for me.
Also, anyone who posts "I've sent you a PM" just needs to...die.
Hopefully if we avoid referencing users by name or being too specific with certain incidents this won't result in a flame war or Mods having to step in. I've got loads more pet hates but I'll see how it flies first.
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I find it a little disconcerting that people get annoyed about the most mundane of things. I've just sent you a PM about it.
DS members who accuse you of sarcasm when you have a different opinion to others.
Just what I was going to say.
Oh come on it wasn't a major disaster or a celebrity death. :cool:
But there are times it is relevant , we all remember things from other threads and there are times when someone is writing something that totally contradicts what they have said in another thread or shows that what they have written in one post cannot be true if you believe what they wrote in another , and then I think its ok to mention it as it is relevant to the thread.
Posting links without any supporting explanation annoys me a bit. So do posters who repeatedly post about the same topic.
God, how I loathe that smiley. Anyone who uses it goes down a peg or two in my estimation.
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I really hate it, though, when people don't bother to read threads that are only a few pages long before chiming in with their opinion. If they can't be bothered to read anyone else's, then why is theirs so damn special that everyone else needs to be treated to it?
Its already at the side, we know who you are thanks. Always strikes me as pompous, as if it gives their view greater meaning, as if they are saying '............. has spoken!'
2--The people who start threads with 'OMG!'.
Which sounds inane when spoken and cringingly bad when written. You cant help reading it in that awful Valley Girl accent in your head.
Spammers who want you to watch a "cool" video which is in fact shite, but which generates money for them.
DS has so few smileys though and thats nice and general and smug
Judge not, and be not judged.
Matthew 7:1
That gets my goat too, we can see who you are, why remind us at the end of every post?
NR:cool: