Forum Pet Peeves

[User93]

I wont say nothing new, but well like CantAffordMac said a few pages ago, i dont understand people who have hundreds of "thanked" and zero "thanks". Come on - you hang around the community and never ever found anything informational for you? Knowing specktra is hard to believe that. I find it disrespectful, and kind of showing off - "Look, im so loved here i have so much thanked, but i dont give a sht bout you, im too classy for that".

I dont have much pat peeves, i like specktra, and i dont mind people having different opinion of mine - it sometimes make you see things even more clear. There are just some little things upsetting me a little, for example, once i saw someone removed a thanks from me, it was just 1 point less.. I dont care that much about "thanks" button, and i had no idea who was it and in which thread, i just felt upset about it

Like, "i thought you make sense but then i realised you suck and removed my thanks?".

And yes, guilty for mistyping a lot! Sorry girls, english is not my native language, and im clumsy, i sometimes notice only after i read it, so i edit :/

 

[MAC_Whore]

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Originally Posted by ♥MiCHiE♥ You forgot ":::☺3 Brushes You Can't Live Without☺:::"!!!!

And I forgot to mention that the word "brush" used in my example can be replaced with any MAC item. i.e. shadows, blush, ls, lg, etc.

 

[MAC_Whore]

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Originally Posted by Alibi ......for example, once i saw someone removed a thanks from me, it was just 1 point less.. I dont care that much about "thanks" button, and i had no idea who was it and in which thread, i just felt upset about it Like, "i thought you make sense but then i realised you suck and removed my thanks?"......

Keep in mind that it could have been a mistake. In the past, I have realized that I mistakenly thanked the wrong post. I then removed the thanks and added it to the post I intended to thank.

 

[CantAffordMAC]

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Originally Posted by MAC_Whore Keep in mind that it could have been a mistake. In the past, I have realized that I mistakenly thanked the wrong post. I then removed the thanks and added it to the post I intended to thank.

True. i do that sometimes. Like whoops. Or I'll thank it, but then I'm like wait...I just thanked a person for posting a smiley face? LoL I dunno!

 

[Mizz.Yasmine]

oh no i type with 'z' instead of 's' sometimes lol! i always write becuz to shorten it! i hope i don't sound 9, i shorten words sometimes becuz(lol!)i have my son tugging at me or im at work and i dont have much time to type out what i wanna say!

my only make-up forum pet peeve is the people who criticize a celebs beauty but u know if that celeb or a girl who looked just like her was an active member sharing photos and fotds, we'd all think they were SO pretty and we'd thank them 785845746 times for posting their looks for us!

 

[lara]

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Originally Posted by SuSana When you post something informational/helpful and someone takes it and posts in on another forum taking credit for it.

Preaching to the choir here!

It's my pet peeve when people get butthurt over being given thread recommendations or thread guidance.
If you post a very, very common question/thread, a moderator or an on-the-ball regular Specktrite will post you a list of other threads that already exist and contain all the answers to your question that you'll ever need and possibly nicely remind you about the search function.
Throwing your tiara on the ground and getting butthurt over that is just ridiculous.

People who try to slip spam links past me in the Swatch forum. Nice try, girlfriend, but not on my watch!

 

[PolyphonicLove]

When you're posting a reply, yet for some reason the computer says, "OH SRY, YOUR POST DIDN'T GO THROUGH!" So you try to post it, like, five more times, and 10 minutes later you see 6 posts of the same thing and you look like a jackass.

Yeahhh...just happened to me in the WOC section. >.<

 

[blazeno.8]

I guess kind of on the same note that other people have mentioned, it annoys me when someone posts a picture and people keep quoting it. Seriously, all you're left with is something like 8 posts in a row that are quotes of the picture and something to the effect of "that's hot" written at the bottom of each one. Geez. Just hit the thanks button and save my eyes.

 

[SmileyfacedPen]

Spelling things wrong on purpose is one thing that irritates me. Especially because, on Specktra for example, there are so many people who are using English as a second language, and I imagine it's quite hard for them to understand things like "lyk" or something if it's hard for some of us, who do speak English as a first language, to read. I'm not the greatest speller in the world (it took me YEARS to figure out how to spell "definitely" properly ), but I don't understand spelling wrong on purpose.

Walls of text. Sure, lots of people don't know how to properly format a perfect paragraph, but... a huge wall of text? It's hard to read, and for me, it makes my eyes feel kind of buggy.

And can I just say... how much I love the thanks button. It is probably the best forum invention ever. I don't post a lot because lots of times I feel like what I want to post is foolish or stupid (sometimes I have a post completely typed up, and then just hit the back button because I think it will sound stupid), so I love using the thanks button. It's just a really easy way to let someone know that you liked their post, and I like a lot of posts! I seem to even be having a hard time articulating why I love it. I just do!

 

[jasminbarley]

A few have been mentioned already:

- people who show lots of "thanked" but no "thanks" at all, what gives? I've noticed some of these people who have responded to a post saying that it was useful but yet have not thanked that poster.

- over-use of formatting: e.g., coloured text plus centering --> yes, it looks pretty but it makes posts very difficult to read.

- spammy posts, e.g., posts with only one smiley or a bunch of smileys and very little text, especially quoting the entire post and then the "I agree" smiley - I know it can't be helped on the odd occasion but sometimes I see this too often, especially in the collection threads, which just serve to unnecessarily bulk up the thread, IMHO

- spammy posts 2 - O/T posts/pictures about cats, dogs, houses etc. in the collections threads - as if those threads don't get big enough!

- spammy posts 3 - quoting an entire long post or a picture and just responding with a one or two word post (yep, it's those darned bloated collection threads again)

- thanked posts that don't actually provide any useful information or support - just makes it look like people are just thanking their 'friends'. I also notice that certain members tend to get thanked no matter what they post.

- posts being deleted - I've mentioned this in the appropriate place so I won't labour the point

- people who take information posted from this site and post it on another site without acknowledging the original poster

- lots of "you look gorgeous" in FOTD threads where the person's skills aren't really up to scratch (I'm a bit in the middle with this one as I realise that many of the FOTD threads are really confidence-building and sometimes ego-stroking support mechanisms for people to develop their makeup skills and it's actually great to witness someone taking their skills up a notch and showing some improvement.)

- trying to find something to talk about in the international forums - part of me would actually like to be able to have a little community of us regular UKers but some of the threads we post are moved to other forums and it kinda splinters the group a bit - don't have a solution to this as I can see that Specktra probably don't want too many duplicate posts and it could be a bit divisive if people just stayed in their local forum and didn't venture out, but sometimes you just want the opinion of your fellow locals about non-MAC and non-makeup topics.

- the last page in a thread doesn't seem to show properly and trying to get onto it just takes you back to the second-last page - I suspect that this is either a coding bug or peculiar behaviour of this type of BBS, either way, it's confusing

 

[CantAffordMAC]

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Originally Posted by jasminbarley - thanked posts that don't actually provide any useful information or support - just makes it look like people are just thanking their 'friends'. I also notice that certain members tend to get thanked no matter what they post.

Sometimes I thank someone if they asked a question I was going to ask, ir if they say something I was gonna say....makes sense right?

 

[jasminbarley]

^^ Yup, that makes sense CantAffordMAC but I'm not really referring to those incidents - I can kinda tell when someone is doing that and it doesn't seem like they're giving their thanks willynilly.

I can't quite put my finger on it but there seems to be a lot of 'thanks volleying' or 'thanks exchanges', if you know what I mean, particularly in the collection threads (yup, them again) which can get too bloated IMHO with O/T posts.

 

[purrtykitty]

It's already been said a bunch of times before, but I noticed this was a particular problem when I checked for new posts today:

The "Search" function is your friend - USE IT!!

I find it's mostly the newbies that do the "What xxx should I get...blah, blah, blah" and they're excited to become part of the community, but seriously, take a little time to explore so that Specktra isn't such a burden on the mods to keep running smoothly.

 

[rbella]

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Originally Posted by jasminbarley - over-use of formatting: e.g., coloured text plus centering --> yes, it looks pretty but it makes posts very difficult to read and I can't help but think that you're a grown-up woman playing with mommy's makeup.

I'm so glad you said this. The "colored" posts, especially when they are long, hurt my eyes and I cannot read them. For some reason it irritates me. I'm glad I am not the only one....

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Originally Posted by jasminbarley - thanked posts that don't actually provide any useful information or support - just makes it look like people are just thanking their 'friends'. I also notice that certain members tend to get thanked no matter what they post.

I hear you on this. I do agree that sometimes it seems like a "popularity contest". But, I would rather someone hit the "thanks" button on one of their "friends" instead of actually replying for no good reason.

I wish that the Clearance Bin would allow us to change our title names. That is my biggest pet peeve. I understand why we can't, but I still wish we could!!

 

[jasminbarley]

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Originally Posted by rbella I'm so glad you said this. The "colored" posts, especially when they are long, hurt my eyes and I cannot read them. For some reason it irritates me. I'm glad I am not the only one....

Hurts my eyes too - most of the time, it's too much effort and I move on.

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Originally Posted by rbella I hear you on this. I do agree that sometimes it seems like a "popularity contest". But, I would rather someone hit the "thanks" button on one of their "friends" instead of actually replying for no good reason.

A lot of the times, I've seen people do both

 

[rbella]

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Originally Posted by jasminbarley A lot of the times, I've seen people do both

Probably me. Sorry!

I also wish that when I clicked on a thread, that it automatically went to the first unread post. When I click on "view first unread post" it only takes me to the first one I haven't read on the last page. If I haven't seen 2 or 3 pages, I might skip it because of this. I hope that made sense...If I click on a topic that is in the main forum, it will bring me to the first unread post, no matter what page it is on. But, it doesn't do this if I am in a specific section, e.g., Chatter-Deep Thoughts and then click on a thread.

I'm not very computer savvy so this could very easily be something I am doing incorrectly. Either way, I still love the site!!

 

[frocher]

This pretty much sums it up for me:

YouTube - How To Behave In Internet Chat Rooms

 

[aziajs]

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Originally Posted by jasminbarley A few have been mentioned already: - people who show lots of "thanked" but no "thanks" at all, what gives? I've noticed some of these people who have responded to a post saying that it was useful but yet have not thanked that poster. - over-use of formatting: e.g., coloured text plus centering --> yes, it looks pretty but it makes posts very difficult to read and I can't help but think that you're a grown-up woman playing with mommy's makeup. - thanked posts that don't actually provide any useful information or support - just makes it look like people are just thanking their 'friends'. I also notice that certain members tend to get thanked no matter what they post. - lots of "you look gorgeous" in FOTD threads where the person's skills aren't really up to scratch (I'm a bit in the middle with this one as I realise that many of the FOTD threads are really confidence-building and sometimes ego-stroking support mechanisms for people to develop their makeup skills and it's actually great to witness someone taking their skills up a notch and showing some improvement.)

LMAO!!! I cannot agree more with the above.

1. There is one person in particular that has like 5,000 "thanked" and NOT 1 "thanks". There is really nothing you have agreed with or find useful???? LOL

2. OMG!! That colored text that's in a different font AND

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AND italicized. I just don't even bother trying to read it. Not to mention that it has to take a lot of extra effort to go through and do all that formatting and coding. That's a nightmare to look at from the editing side. Geez.

2. I have read several posts where someone has thanked somebody when they didn't say anything! I mean, I have thanked someone who asked a question or made a short statement that I agreed with or was amused by. I have also thanked someone who had an emoticon that was really relevant. But, to thank someone who really didn't add anything to the discussion? I guess. I have also seen the people flock to the "popular kids" and thank them. Now, if I said the same thing, would you see any thanks under my post. No ma'am. LOL

4. The FOTD thanks baffles me but I can't make heads or tails of it. There are some people who post some really nice pictures and they get like 5 thanks and 10 comments. Then someone else posts an average picture at best and they get like 40 thanks and 50 comments. I guess it's so subjective that there's not too much I can say other than I don't get it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[aziajs]

Frocher, that was TOO funny! I don't agree with everything he said but 90% of it I do agree with.

 

[Beauty Mark]

I have a few new ones, from a different board.

-When someone is blatantly a complete novice at something (you can tell by the kind of questions they ask) gets indignant and tries to be authoritative to others who are trying to help him/her, like trying to show off the little knowledge they have

-People who post looking for "advice" when really they want someone to affirm whatever it is they're doing or about to do. They then get upset when they don't receive said support

-When people try to start rumors and make false accusations about someone's behavior on a board and the instigator can't prove the allegations