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Beat Writer  Posts: 187 Joined: 28 Jul 2008     | |
BANNED  Posts: 530 Joined: 31 Jul 2008   |
... are stacked on top of each other I find to be annoying. I'm also use to having a quick reply and then a designated window for a lengthy reply. I'm just adjusting I guess. I'm a part of a lot forums that do a lot of things a lot of different ways. User was banned for: Atheism is HILARIOUS!. (3 days) |
Muckraker  Posts: 298 Joined: 13 May 2008     |
(Sorry I had to quote tower it to illustrate my point) I like how they're fading these out now if the quote list gets too far in. On the forums: Actually it's not so much the forums as the site background picture off to the side. I also don't like when people quote an entire post just to focus on one line. Neither of these things annoy me enough to stay away. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1126 Joined: 17 Jun 2008     |
Agreed, I'm also used to having a signature. We just have a lonely avatar here. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 150 Joined: 3 Apr 2008  | The archetypes. Theres the stereotypical obnoxious American guy on every forum(I'm American so don't jump down my throat) Who chimes in on every thread about how great his country is and has the geographical knowledge of a fucking twinkie. He's always accompanied by his arch-nemesis, snide stereotypcial english guy. Their battles often leave entire threads in flames. 13 year old tat spels lik shet. Gangsta posta who spells like dis. Poster with thinly veiled racism. Poster who will argue about ANYTHING! and Poster who thinks they're always right. Luckily I haven't run into any of these on this forum. |
BANNED Posts: 530 Joined: 31 Jul 2008 |
I noticed that too, which is why I only quoted three separate words. Come to think of it, I do make great use of the live preview so I can see if I coded everything properly (bold, italics, images, etc).
Yeah, that's incredibly annoying. God bless people like me who isolate what they're responding to. =) User was banned for: Atheism is HILARIOUS!. (3 days) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3903 Joined: 26 Feb 2008    | Bad Spelling, Bad grammar, many posts with little or no content by one person... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3903 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | Stupid multi-posts like this, where people add one sentence when they could just edit because no one else has posted... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1089 Joined: 6 Mar 2008    | - People that nitpick spelling and grammatical errors - People that bitch at thread creators for making a thread that already exists. Sometimes the search feature doesn't work. And is it that big a deal anyway? - In the reviews forum, specifically - people that criticize the reviews themselves without even talking about what's being reviewed Luckily these things don't occur very often here. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1969 Joined: 1 Feb 2008   |
You must have excellent thread selection, excellent luck, or a metric assload of sarcasm. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3806 Joined: 29 Nov 2007  | Threads about lists. Especially threads listing things that annoy people....Bum bum bummmmmm. |
Beat Writer Posts: 150 Joined: 3 Apr 2008 |
Cocain is a helluva drug. |
Muckraker  Posts: 297 Joined: 17 Oct 2007 |
Hey now, if you don't think you're right, why post? Hmmm? I have a thing about kids. You see, i was a kid some time ago, and i didn't know how to use the internet. All i knew is if you clicked a certain icon on your Packard Bell CD_ROM thing, it would make a sound like a dying animal, and then beep, and- and-. . . well i usually just ran away crying by then. Anyway, now the internet is basically the center of all computer use, so legions of idiot-babies come crawling onto these here forums, leaving an oozing trail of bile, fanboyism, and surprisingly adept understanding of LOLcat. They're almost fluent. It's impressive. Aside from those whiny little scamps, a short list of "pet peeves": -The term "pet peeves." Christ it's like nails on a chalkboard. -User reviews that provide no criticism. (Bestest movie/game evarrr! <3 - more common in film reviews.) -People who quote Yahtzee. You are not Yahtzee, therefore you are not funny. -Anyone who likes the movie "V for Vendetta." (Oh shit. Wrong crowd for this one.) and, lastly! -People who haven't played Braid. If you haven't purchased it yet, get off the forums until you fix this. I'm not even kidding. |
Beat Writer Posts: 150 Joined: 3 Apr 2008 | I think I'm gonna start a list about your top 5 lists. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1114 Joined: 8 Apr 2008   | People who post ALL IN CAPS TO EMPHASIZE THEIR POINT people who dont use capital letters or any more punctuation than the period and comma, because for some reason theyre too lazy to hit the shift key. i can't stand it and i don't know why Thread titles like "I was wondering..." or, "Can somebody help me?" or "Read this post" or "Extremely long thread titles that could probably be shortened into something a little less obnoxious". And speaking of capital letters, I'm so glad I have yet to see SomEThInG LiKE thiS oN tHEsE FoRUmS, bEcAUsE OnLY SOmeonE dEliBerATelY trYinG to Be A JacKAss PoSTs LiKe THIs. |
Muckraker  Posts: 267 Joined: 17 Jul 2008 | Luckily not in here, but I so hate signatures. Sure one line of text is fine, but on another forum I hang on, the sigs are made usually of 5 to 15 images, some of them large. The sig area becomes a scrollable which looks messy and ugly. People complaining about posts and not just enjoying them. I posted a poll about games, and the almost all the posts that started coming were complaints about how I "forgot" to put things in my poll, and putting in things that they didn't like. Ended up removing it. |
BANNED Posts: 530 Joined: 31 Jul 2008 |
Where I'm from, images in signatures are disabled and there's a 255 character limit. Most people just have a link to a blog or last.fm or something similar if anything, so it's actually tolerable. User was banned for: Atheism is HILARIOUS!. (3 days) |
Muckraker  Posts: 347 Joined: 9 Nov 2007 | Forum achievements and post counts; they seem only to exist to encourage spamming. Yes, I know escapist has them both, and to be honest, I don't like them. I also dislike European America-bashers. I am from Europe, have no special sympathy to the USA, but i think such posts are mostly low blows only to piss off Americans. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1180 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 | People who can't stay or even try to have a neutral point of view on a topic, console fanboys and young posters who haven't even played a game before like 2002. *edit* I don't mind people making spelling mistakes but for the love of fucking christ at least start a sentence with a capital letter and end with a full stop. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 90 Joined: 1 May 2008    | When people's opinions/arguments are judged solely on their post count (or lack of). |
Beat Writer Posts: 150 Joined: 3 Apr 2008 |
Coming from a 52. PFFT. :) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2658 Joined: 3 Mar 2008 |
I have seen "thinly veiled racism" in a few places. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2658 Joined: 3 Mar 2008 |
So, so true. Also double-posters. Shut up, I was making a point. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2076 Joined: 6 Aug 2008 |
...I haven't, don't even know what it is... I'm 15 so does that make it a bit better? Trolls, obviously People who use the "I'm not racist but" excuse or the "Survival of the fittest/whitest/prettiest" method of thinking, really annoying when they spew that drivel. Oh yeah 13 yr old "gangsta's" who go on with the "i'm gangsta and hav had heaps of sex wid da ladeez, u r gay" This is why I don't go on xbox live... shame me once... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2658 Joined: 3 Mar 2008 |
What about "I'm not a fanboy but"? |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 105 Joined: 24 Aug 2008 |
People like lord who cant shorten the quote to maybe a sentence or so. EDIT:And Americans that make other Americans look like they are all a fat pile of scrotum's. |
King of the Yetis  Posts: 1958 Joined: 15 Jul 2008 |
-Learn to spell -What if someone were to follow you to work every day and scream the same words over and over again directly into your face. How long before you wanted to shove your fist down said person's throat. -That's kind of the point of the review section champ. The fanboys who imply that they're not fanboys, but merely defending giant corporation 'x' from evil barbarians who won't give it a chance. Especially when said fanboys hijack good threads. People who respond to trolls. Trolls. Angry people who are angry about something that makes them angry. Also anyone who refers to their 'bile' which apparently is internet speak for "I am going to swear in this topic" |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3022 Joined: 8 May 2008 |
I agree you shouldn't be in denial about yourself. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2076 Joined: 6 Aug 2008 |
Dammit forgot that one "I'm not a fanboy but i will kill you and your family if you don't praise the mighty xbox 360!!" |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 124 Joined: 28 May 2008 |
It's... it's just a really good console! PRAISE IT DAMN YOU!!!! Actually, I don't like fanboys either. Every time I see one, part of me dies. It's like "Why do you care what other people think of what you're playing? Just shut up and enjoy what you've got." I don't find this happens here much, but it's also kind of annoying when people get into a debate or argument about whatever, and they stack their quotes over and over and over. Just quote the last relevant post. That's enough. Other than that, nothing really bugs me much. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3903 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | People who think posting a link to something they made, or are a part of, or any other form of TROLL ADVERTISING as a First post. Case in point:
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Red Guard  Posts: 1794 Joined: 16 Dec 2007  |
Ironically you just helped him advertise it but linking it here. Don't worry though, I edited out the link.
They're lurk around here, but the community does a great job of keeping them in check. (Read: reports them immediately.)
The signatures are allowed on our sister site Warcry, but here we prefer to keep focus on discussion and off the self-promotion. We'd like to think that your profile has enough bells and whistles to allow users to share their interests in a way that is non-intrusive. No one likes an unsolicited advertisement. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 735 Joined: 12 Apr 2008 | People who abuse the fact they will almost never face a consequence for their behaviour. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 628 Joined: 11 Jul 2008 | Sure we all want well written readable posts, but it bugs me when someone feels that a small typo or a missed capital letter gets 'Well, coming from someone who types like that' levels of rudeness. Take it easy, everyone slips a key occasionally, so long as they're readable and not deliberately typing like an idiot, it really doesn't matter so much. The quote stacking can get out of hand, yes. Also, lists, its fine if you're adding some opinion, but just going '1. thingy 2. another thingy' doesn't make for a thrilling read. People who flatly won't back down, I hope that when I'm proven wrong, I'll either admit it change direction, or just shut up, but some people just hunt around for a new angle or just resort 'no u r' style retorts, I've given up on some threads because I just get the feeling that some people are not even reading anything, just blindly defending an opinion. I'm sure there's lots more. Having said this, I think these forum are by far the best I've ever used, with sensible open minded people in general, and the banhammer isn't swung too wildly, and borderline subjects are allowed it seems, as the users seem to have the maturity to handle the ideas., such as racism, sexism, etc. Hell, even the 'big tits in games' thread had a valid point to make, despite its title. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 6472 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | |
What are some things on the forums that annoy you?
For me it's does guys that quote like the 2nd reply.Example.Say it is a topic about bad video games.A person replies"I love Bioshock" and than 15 posts later some guy says "I hate Bioshock"Than precedes to give a stupid or smart reason.Than he quotes the 2nd post and says"I just said Bioshock is stupid".
And please trolls,try not to act like idiots.Please.