Forum Pet Peeves

[xSazx]

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Originally Posted by lvgz

spelling.. well some people just cant spell, so that doesnt really bother me too much. i correct my friends online but on a forum, what can you do, right? minor mistakes are alright, but i dont like it when people dont spell correctly on purpose.

the whole typing in all caps except for i's or just in all caps, period, bothers me. WHY DO PEOPLE NEED TO TYPE LiKE THiS THROUGHOUT THEiR WHOLE POST? seriously. haha undo the caps lock, please!

Yesss, that's so irritating! But if you think that's annoying, I used to visit a forum where a lot of people TyPeD lYk DiS iN eVrI sInGlE pOsT.

[♥MiCHiE♥]

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Originally Posted by MissChievous

I never knew some of you ladies take the "Thanks" button so seriously! Honestly, Janice installed that application as a fun little thing to give back to users, and so we can easily say "thanks" to someone without having to hit reply. It really doesn't matter how many thanks/thanked someone has, this isn't a popularity contest. I know I have a lot of thanked posts, but honestly, I barely ever look at that on people's avatars. It doesn't make anyone's opinion more or less valid, I go by what people write or post. There are no rules regarding the correct etiquette to "thanking", so don't worry about it.

I think we're all in agreement with the bold statement. I think it works me up a lot because I frequently check back via 'New Posts' for answers to questions within the thread, only to see that the thread has been bumped, with no new info, because someone has said, "Thanks." I know it's a small rant, and unimportant to a lot of people, but isn't that really what a "Pet Peeve" is?

[banjobama]

When people type phrases incorrectly like, "Don't take this for granite" (granted) or "You can't safe face" (save face). There's a poster up at my school from a girl trying to start an anime club, and it uses "want's" for "once."

[MissChievous]

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Originally Posted by ♥MiCHiE♥

I think we're all in agreement with the bold statement. I think it works me up a lot because I frequently check back via 'New Posts' for answers to questions within the thread, only to see that the thread has been bumped, with no new info, because someone has said, "Thanks." I know it's a small rant, and unimportant to a lot of people, but isn't that really what a "Pet Peeve" is?

I don't think I understand. If you hit the thanks button in an old thread, afaik, it doesn't bump up the thread. It only bumps the thread if you hit the reply button and then write out "thanks" (or whatever.) So the thanks button is handy in that sense too.

Edit: I just read back to your earlier post, and I think we're actually on the same page. I was saying the thanks button is useful, as were you. I was talking about the thanks button, not making a reply going "thanks".

[Beauty Mark]

Trolls. The people who essentially fight for the hell of it and add random stuff, like insulting someone's looks, even if that has nothing to do with the topic.

People who have a conflict with someone on the boards (knowing that this person reads the boards) and try to garner advice. It just has started quite a few fights that were ridiculous.

Cutesy typing. I understand spelling errors and not typing certain words. On another board I read, the moderator thinks it's awesome to write stuff like "dem", "dat", etc. She does it to be cute, and it's not cute. I also gathered that it's difficult for international readers to understand what the hell she's typing; I struggle with that sometimes, and I only know English.

I can't think of a word or phrase for it, but I read several boards about certain "famous" people or TV shows. The second that person makes it known s/he is reading the boards, the conversation goes sycophantic even if there were fair and valid criticisms of the person. It's really amazing. I don't believe people should be heartless and write cruel things for fun, but I really hate how good conversation is destroyed when people know that their words aren't going unnoticed by the person of the topic.

Crazy fans. You can write a fair and valid critique of a person and they'll jump all over you like you called their idol a pedophile. It's kind of scary.

[SingFrAbsoltion]

^haha crazy fans. I've seen those. And they fight over the celeb sometimes. "z0mg back off thats my hubby". shut up.

and I just remembered this one. it doesn't apply to this board because all the admins and mods are awesome, but I used to go to this one forum with 2 mods who were the biggest bitches ever! They would just into discussions and make fun of everyone, ban crazy amounts of people, and even made up a whole subforum where them two could make fun of people's posts! Even though I never personally got picked on, I felt really bad for other members. I stopped going there and a little later signed on to see that the board was practically dead. Maybe because the bitches banned half of the members for no reason.

[Ambi]

When people quote a mile long post only to say something useless like "I agree", it takes up half of the page and it just seems silly when you could/should quote a couple of sentences/the important parts, not the entire damn thing.

[lipshock]

Michie and MissChievous, you ladies took the words right out of my mouth. I cannot stand it when I go through a post (mainly in the FOTD section) and the Original Poster, after every (almost) every single reply to their starting post, says "Thanks" when we have a Thanks! Button, for goodness sake. UTILIZE IT, IT'S THERE FOR A REASON.

But for some reason, I believe that some people do it so that they can have a higher comment count .. if you get what I mean by that. I guess having a high comment count means you're popular?!?!? :confused:

I would say that and typing like "I gots 2 da mall becuz I ain't gots no new clothez" is really damn annoying. I CANNOT stand to see the English butchered as I see on so many forums. What is so hard about typing out the word "THAT" instead of "DAT"!?

[Shimmer]

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Originally Posted by lipshock

Michie and MissChievous, you ladies took the words right out of my mouth. I cannot stand it when I go through a post (mainly in the FOTD section) and the Original Poster, after every (almost) every single reply to their starting post, says "Thanks" when we have a Thanks! Button, for goodness sake. UTILIZE IT, IT'S THERE FOR A REASON.

To be fair, in the FOTD section, only the first post may be thanked. After that, the OP may use the Rep button to give reputation to comments.

For people posting in the FOTD section who want to respond to compliments, please do feel free to use the 'multi-quote' function.

[♥MiCHiE♥]

Yeah, I think it's a bumping the thread thing, too.

Ambi, the quoting thing.....OMG...have you ever been to a forum where people argue and write dissertations, another person quotes and you end up having a mile long quote-within-a-quote-within-a-quote?!??!

[lipshock]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer

To be fair, in the FOTD section, only the first post may be thanked. After that, the OP may use the Rep button to give reputation to comments.

For people posting in the FOTD section who want to respond to compliments, please do feel free to use the 'multi-quote' function.

Shimmer, you're right. OOPS!

I meant to say use the MULTI-QUOTE function if you want to thank multiple users without cluttering the thread with "THANKS!" and "THANKS!" and etc.

I LOVE that MULTI-QUOTE button, by the way. Things like this make me love Specktra.

[lipshock]

Another thing:

The Search function available on the site. USE IT and the ADVANCED SEARCH function as we