• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Forum posting habits that annoy the hell out of you.

  • Thread starter Thread starter kittens
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
I have a list of complaints.

-Any text or image meme from Reddit, Tumblr, or those shitty garbage dumps like 9gag. This includes purposefully lacking punctuation/spelling/grammar, talking "fancy," or using hashtags on a site that doesn't support hashtags. Even GAF memes get dumb after a while, like anything from Assassins.

-People who post anything with zero content. Thanks for wasting my time telling me how you don't get this game with no thought put into posting about it. My scrolling finger thinks you're an asshole.

-"Meh." or "Press A to Awesome."
 
People who feel the need to say things like "That's just your opinion" or any variant of that. No shit it's my opinion.

Posting gifs (especially gifs of video games you're hyped up about) as responses.

"Hiding" off topic conversations in spoiler tags.

Referring to GAF as a singular entity, or a hivemind, or something to that effect.

I think that's it.
 
Spoiler complaining.

It's often ridiculous. If a game/movie/book/tv show is over 5 years old then deal with it. All of a sudden you care about some media you previously couldn't be bothered to consume?
 
Pimpwerx said:
I always find it amusing how upset some people get over the word "peace." I'm not sure you see the irony.

Oh, and to add my pet peeve, it would be spoiler tags and people who ask for them. Sack up. Spoilers aren't the end of the world. PEACE.
Click to expand...

It's come up in every "I hate when posters do x" thread since I've been on GAF, and it's funny because it's one word in a sea of words. I could understand if you were posting a picture sig of the word Peace after every post, but otherwise it shouldn't be as big of a deal as people make it out to be.

LiK said:
Using the term "GAF hivemind" or referring to GAF as a single entity to insult or disparage a group of people's opinions in a thread. You're posting here as well so don't think you're an exception.
Click to expand...

What's annoying is that this gets used when maybe only three people in a topic are having a disagreement with the person using it while everyone else is in agreement with said person. "GAF Defense Force" gets used in the same way and it's silly to want or expect everyone on the internet in a huge community with people all over the world to be in complete agreement with something. If you're making threads and everyone agrees/no one disagrees, you don't have a very good thread.

And "G, A, or F" being used in thread titles and it always being Florida. Post some Germany and Austria (or Australia) news.
 
Stumpokapow said:
We are aware that this is a problem and have taken a few measures to try to lower the number of threads that have titles like this. You should notice an improvement on a go-forward basis.



I very much agree. Reaction GIFs have gotten really really popular everywhere online, to the point that half the time they're barely even saying anything. It's really frustrating to see someone post a good article or offer a sincere review of something or whatever and then just see a succession of jokerpopcorn antoniobanderassatisfied planesunset hip-hopguybeingpushedaround likeaboss hatersgonnahate bugsbunnyflorida stuff.
Click to expand...

Been seeing a lot of those getting shut d. as of late and approve of it greatly. :D
 
One thing that annoys me is some peoples attitude to juniors on this forum. People will say" Of course that post was made by a junior" or "You'll learn soon enough junior". It does'nt make any sense and it makes the poster come across as a complete prick A junior is someone who has'nt posted 300 times. Thats it. Nothing magic happens when you become a member. Theres no epiphany granting access to To a Higher form of conciousnesss.
 
People posting pics or GIF's from photobucket ALL OF THEM WILL TURN TO THIS THIS IN A MATTER OF HOURS:

HJTXvug.png
 
"What say you"

How about you get up from the round table, leave and take you band of merry men with you.

I also hate when a whole page (or two or three) is dedicated to quoting something someone said for the sole purpose of getting a mod to notice it and banning them.
 
The posts that bother me the most are "hypothetical hypocrisy" and it's variant "GAF is a hypocrite"

"If George Bush did this you'd be outraged"

"If GAF is so tolerant why does it hate religion?"

Someone can't guess how another poster would feel about a different situation and GAF isn't a single person. It's utter nonsense and pure rhetoric without an argument.

Another one is posters who hate GAF but hang around to act superior to the silly hive-mind by picking out the worst posts in a thread and holding the rest of the forum accountable for it.

"GAF supports pedophiles! This place is the worst"
 
The only thing that annoys me is people that thing their shit don't stink, like for example people that think their opinion is pure fact and dismiss yours immediatly if it's not aligned with theirs, I have a few people in my ignore lists that is like that, NO you are not an authority, NO your opinion is not the end of all things, and no you are not some super intelligent person that everybody needs to shut up when you post, get off your high horse you fucking idiot.

Also people that think they are some sort of Roger Ebert or some sort of super critic that if I like a movie they don't like then Im dumb or something, there is a few here that I won't mention but it annoys me, so what if I like a movie you don't like? you don't have to post after me with "lol"

I think is rude people in general, I don't like rude people at all.
 
When people keep quoting stupid posts and ignore the arguments against them that are actually good. Someone often makes a very good post, but everyone is too busy spamming their reaction GIFs and mocking a troll post.

When a thread that had good discussion turns into everyone mocking a single poster. You guys aren't funny. Often times, this poster is a troll or just made an inflammatory drive by post. I wish this were bannable.

People who just argue for the sake of arguing. It doesn't matter if you agree with them for the most part. They just go on and on.
 
"P.S. I own __________" after posting stupid criticism of something or some company.

As if that makes the dumb thing you just said any less dumb.
 
HoJu said:
people who post shitty gifs of celebrities blinking or looking up or eating some food item or whatever.
Click to expand...

Jesus, yes. Neogaf would be so much better if the people who post reaction gifs and the people who say the word "Dat" would be instantly permabanned.

I wonder if I ignore every poster who does those two things if I would miss out on anything important.

I just can't imagine that someone who thinks "Dat" instead of that "that" is funny could possibly be capable of posting anything intelligent or worth reading in any way.
 
"Is looking good" is the worst one because I don't know if I'm going to be aroused or depressed
 
Kikarian said:
When people sign their username at the bottom of a post. It doesn't happen as often now though, thankfully!

- Kikarian
Click to expand...

There was a guy in the Halo community that did this. He did it across all the forums and sites he visited, but instead of his full name, he just put his initial."BB".

Tragically, the guy died. He was was quite young relatively speaking, and he had made a real impact in the communities that he was part of. I realised that I was being a dick for being butthurt over something as trivial as a couple of letters on a virtual message board signature and that was enough to stop me from getting to know a genuinely nice guy.

Don't waste your time getting annoyed by such trivial things if you can help it. I'll always regret acting like an arse because of something so stupid,
 
Dat/dem. Fuck off.

Basically all the little verbal fads that some people jump on and run into the ground through overuse, but that's the biggest one at the moment. Some threads you can see it 5+ times per page, and there are people who use it all the time in an apparent effort to compensate for their lack of anything to add to the conversation.

And people who edit their responses to later posts into their previous posts. Forums are chronological for a reason, guys.

Also, it's less a single habit than a whole subset of threads, but live threads of any type. Conferences, TV shows, anything. It's just people repeating what everyone in the thread just saw, followed by three pages of "OMG", "HOLY SHIT", "DAT X" whenever anything interesting happens. The big ones bring GAF down without saying anything useful.
 
iammeiam said:
Going into a thread having read nothing more than the thread title and the OP, not reading whatever the OP links to or any replies, and then dropping a one-liner that was tired five topics ago. At least Ctrl+F through the thread and realize you are the tenth person to make a Kickstarter joke in a thread with Penny Arcade in the title/fifth person to make a PRISM or NSA joke in a Microsoft thread/whatever.

...
Really it's just people who seem to think threads only really start when they show up. I get not having time to read everything in a huge thread, or a fast-moving thread, but at least skim the first and last couple of pages to get an idea of the conversation.
Click to expand...

This is definitely my biggest annoyance as well. Really those kind of one liner didn't read the thread at all posts shouldn't be okay at any point, but someone rolling into a thread on the gaming side 20 pages deep to drop a gem like "lol they've seen Titanfall woooooo!" is especially infuriating. It adds nothing to anything except to that users post count and sometimes manages to derail potentially interesting discussion that a thread can actually get to by the later pages. And then the drive by posting idiot doesn't even stay in the thread.

The other thing that's really been bothering me over on gaming is the glut of threads that are just "*person working for company* says *positive platitude about company's product* in interview." They never lead to anything interesting. You just get supporters of the company saying "yeah!" and people who don't like them saying "nah!" This is followed by the exact same fights happening in every other thread.
 
Bomba & Dat/Dem is basically the messageboard equivalent of the dipshit at school/work who just saw something funny on tv the night before and thinks they can be just as funny by simply repeating the jokes they heard.

Basically - people using that shit end up sounding like Michael Scott/David Brent.
 
BlackJace said:
"P.S. I own __________" after posting stupid criticism of something or some company.

As if that makes the dumb thing you just said any less dumb.
Click to expand...

Yeah I hate that too, even more when it's coming from someone who you know is a hardcore fanboy of something.

It's the "I have black friends" of video games.
 
Aside from just general "this kind of annoys me stuff" that ultimately isn't a big deal, one of my biggest complaints is the race to be the first person to offer a pithy jab at the title that completely ignores the actual body of the OP's post. And I think this is mainly because of the aforementioned "first reply nails it again" posts that -- coupled with that initial post that is actually terrible despite what some think -- completely derails the discussion. I hate it when I can read a title, guess the first response, see a well thought out and nuanced message, and then keep scrolling down to see that -- oh yes -- there's that oh so witty one-liner I was expecting. And this is followed by "/thread" and Citizen Kane clapping gifs and so on.

There was an idea kicked around that was mostly joking that we should just set it up to auto-delete the first five responses to every thread. As time goes on, I go from facetiously liking that idea to seriously liking it.
 
I don't like one-word replies---not things like "Fixed" with the changes in a quote---but literally NOTHING other than "Yes!," "Awesome," "OMG," "Wow," etc.

I feel like a coherent opinion cannot be delivered in the form of an interjection. I don't mind reaction GIFs as much, since they add a bit of humor to complement the post involved.

But one-word posts? They almost come off as robotic...it's just something that, without any sort of clarification, doesn't make any sense in the English language.

People don't say "OMG," then nothing else. They say "OMG," and then explain why. It's natural human conversation.
 
Nerdkiller said:
Has anyone said this yet? Because I hate it when people use "literally" as a form of exaggeration, when the word is anything but.
Click to expand...

I'm absolutely with you. Unfortunately dummies around the world have been doing this for so long and to such an extent that the dictionary definition has literally been changed to include the use of 'literally' as a form of exaggeration. This happened very recently. I wish I was joking.
 
Off Topic has its annoyances, but nothing beats Gaming side.

Probably the worst thing about gaming side is the total disregard to "casual" gamers. Basically, anyone who doesn't regard gaming as a main hobby and/or prefers to play games on his/her iPhone is a lower class of human. If a game like the Wonderful 101 flops, everyone acts like it's this shocking travesty instead of the inevitable result of releasing an incredibly niche title in a lagging market on a struggling system. And when traditional gaming consoles flop, it's not the fault of the company itself. No, it's clearly the fault of those dumb casuals who just play minigames on their phone and can't appreciate the awesomeness of the games that I like.
 
Thing on a Spring said:
I'm absolutely with you. Unfortunately dummies around the world have been doing this for so long and to such an extent that the dictionary definition has literally been changed to include the use of 'literally' as a form of exaggeration. This happened very recently. I wish I was joking.
Click to expand...
*bites and screams into pillow*

Also people using hashtags on anywhere that isn't Twitter. That joke was old in 2009 and it's old now.
 
Mr. Serious Business said:
Off Topic has its annoyances, but nothing beats Gaming side.

Probably the worst thing about gaming side is the total disregard to "casual" gamers. Basically, anyone who doesn't regard gaming as a main hobby and/or prefers to play games on his/her iPhone is a lower class of human. If a game like the Wonderful 101 flops, everyone acts like it's this shocking travesty instead of the inevitable result of releasing an incredibly niche title in a lagging market on a struggling system. And when traditional gaming consoles flop, it's not the fault of the company itself. No, it's clearly the fault of those dumb casuals who just play minigames on their phone and can't appreciate the awesomeness of the games that I like.
Click to expand...

Gaming is getting annoying because console warz are heating up and some are really emotionally invested, but I figure the more extreme ones will get themselves banned when something doesn't go the way they want and the place will mellow out after a while. Meanwhile, I'll enjoy watching the carnage.
 
Quoting avatar username or tag. That shit is so stupid.



Claiming a member is a joke character


Gaming side in general.


Posting a picture reply to everything.
Is this a image board? Speak with ya words.
 
Steve Youngblood said:
Aside from just general "this kind of annoys me stuff" that ultimately isn't a big deal, one of my biggest complaints is the race to be the first person to offer a pithy jab at the title that completely ignores the actual body of the OP's post. And I think this is mainly because of the aforementioned "first reply nails it again" posts that -- coupled with that initial post that is actually terrible despite what some think -- completely derails the discussion. I hate it when I can read a title, guess the first response, see a well thought out and nuanced message, and then keep scrolling down to see that -- oh yes -- there's that oh so witty one-liner I was expecting. And this is followed by "/thread" and Citizen Kane clapping gifs and so on.

There was an idea kicked around that was mostly joking that we should just set it up to auto-delete the first five responses to every thread. As time goes on, I go from facetiously liking that idea to seriously liking it.
Click to expand...

Yeah, spot on. The first post culture here is just weird. But it's not like anyone is breaking the rules. So basically, as long as people want to feel good about themselves by making a witty/clever first post, there is always going be that incentive for people to get in the first post. But I often find it distracting, and it sometimes deviates from the OP - or undercuts it.

Especially when the OP is arguing something with depth, and someone just throws out a one liner that sums up the opinion that a lot of people on GAF feel. The problem is, just because everyone on GAF generally feels that way, if the OP is making a serious argument, then there should be that discussion. Waving it away with a witty one liner just undercuts the work the poster put in to their OP.
 
The fast food obsession, people white knighting celebrities, people creating threads for shocking stories for the sake of it, there is no benefit but to incite more hate.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

What the hell happened to nichegamer.com
14
376
Darkmakaimura replied
Please for the love of Christ sort the ads out.
27
403
Celcius replied
What's up with girls from your past coming out of the woodwork as soon as you find a good one that isn't them?
37
656
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt replied
The most annoying think about the AI/Tech focus for me is...
35
381
Polygonal_Sprite replied
Anyone heard of this app Too Good to Go? Cheap food that restaurants are throwing out at the end of the day.
2
53
3K
DKehoe replied
Top Bottom