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the opposite of sweet. is it that hard?
Citizen Mane
Member
I don't like when people say "welp, I've lost all hope for humanity" or the reverse, "this restores a little bit of my faith in humanity" whenever something bad/good happens. I don't know why, it just comes across as really lame to me.
Yeah, because I didn't start doing this all the way back on usenet, before GAF even existed, and where there were actually sigs. Or better yet, I love people who have no idea that GAF used to have sigs, and I posted it even then...along with a sig. Never once heard a comment or complaint about it on usenet. GAF just has an extremely high incidence of whiny idiots who think complaining about the most-benign word in the world boosts their own sense of self-importance.
Don't you feel like an utter moron for complaining about this? What's so annoying about it?
Seriously?
Someone please explain to me how one fucking word at the end of anywhere from tens to a thousand words is sooooooooooooooooo annoying that you need to take time to type up a complaint about it? It's not an insult. It's not an offensive word. It's not directed at anyone or anything.
It's the word "peace." You know what goes through my head when I type it? I think you myself, "Some pretentious asshole is going to complain about it and not even see the incredible irony in complaining about the word 'peace'." That's what goes through my head. Anyone that complains about it is a fucking moron and can eat all the dicks in the world. I apologize for nothing. SMH. PEACE.
User 100115
Banned
I think, for the most part, people see it as attention whoring. Since nothing about the content of your posts would change if you stopped doing it, people see it as nothing more than an attempt to stand out above the crowd, someone stamping their foot and saying 'Look at me!'
And since you are so adamant about NOT changing it, to the point of insulting other posters that mention it, it's sorta ringing true. I doubt anyone would have a problem with any of your posts if you didn't sign them every time.
I can't stop people from being morons. I'm trying to stand out from the crowd? LOLOLOLOL!
Hey, DCX, you hear that? We're trying to stand out from the crowd. We're attention whores now, because we do something we've done forever.
It's something I do. You complain about dumb shit, I end my posts in PEACE. It's just a thing, and people have all the right in the world to put me on ignore. That they don't, and choose to complain openly about it is the real definition of attention whoring. USE YOUR GODDAMN IGNORE LIST. That's what it's there for. I know...I'm the attention whore that openly endorses people putting him on ignore if they don't like how I end my posts. Look at me. Give me attention. This is fucking stupid. PEACE.
Phillip E.
Neo Member
I agree. Restoring faith is akin to poisoning the collective consciousness of humanity. Christopher Hitchens once stated, "Faith is the surrender of the mind; it’s the surrender of reason, it’s the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals".
You know what annoys me? When a word or phrase is taken completely out of context so that a person can spew their recently tapped knowledge (i.e., ignorance) of how the world operates and tops it off with a quote.
I might have made this behavior up so that I have a reason to complain. Complaining for the sake of complaining annoys me as well.
User 100115
Banned
I tend to not ignore anyone. It doesn't bother me so much as it getting a bit old, but I am not the type to openly complain about anything...unless people are being openly hostile, which is why I wanted to point out why some people might be annoyed by it. This is, after all, a discussion forum, and people can discuss stuff as long as they don't break the rules. You can just as well ignore those people instead of telling them to go eat a bag of dicks, you know?
Nice. I laughed too hard at this.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
-Wrong usage of apostrophes
-Addicting
-Wouldof, couldof
*AAARRGHHHHHHHH*
-Addicting
-Wouldof, couldof
*AAARRGHHHHHHHH*
I don't reply to it 99.9% of the time. This thread offers me a convenient opportunity to ask people why this even bothers them, because like I said, it isn't even remotely offensive, and it isn't directed at anyone. Yet, people take personal offense at it. Not just me, but DCX. DCX who doesn't even make sometimes controversial posts like I do. I mean, wtf? I've never once batted an eye at a DCX post, yet people like complaining about him ending his posts with his name. Like WTF? Get over yourselves. If it's offensive, I ignore it. If people find my posts offensive, put me on ignore, or stfu about it. DCX and I don't ask anyone what they think about how we end our posts. We don't ask for comments, so people can cram those complaints where they belong. PEACE.
User 100115
Banned
I understand that. I know it gets frustrating, seeing people complain about it and all, but I just don't see the point in further antagonizing folk by insulting them, you know? It's sort like if I ended every post with a <3 or something. Or a gif. People tend to find things like that annoying, so I can understand why they would speak out about it in a thread about things that annoy them on the forum.
People are just going to be further convinced that you aren't the type of person they'd want to pay attention to, by pointing at the insulting posts and saying "See? He's a bit of a jerk." Good on you for not normally responding to it, and I can see why it would be a situation of 'the straw that broke the camel's back' and all. But when folks are upset about something, any reaction they can get only makes them feel justified in the end, and you don't win.
killer rin
Member
I hate when people sign their posts. Its not needed, you can just move your eyes a cm to the left and see your username, avatar and everything I need to.
"~killer rin"
"~killer rin"
Pops Maellard
Member
Came here to say this. Nothing more annoying than people signing their posts, as if there's not a giant username to the left of what they wrote already.
You do realise this is a thread to post about forum habits that annoy you right? If they find it said habit annoying surely they have the right to voice that complaint.
Also it's pretty bad advice to tell someone to just sweep a problem under the carpet. One should try to the best of their ability to face a problem head on. That and the ignore list is weak.
Just reading your posts the "peace" thing at the end doesn't even bother me. If something is to bother me about your posts it would be the hostile nature of them. They come across as pretty aggressive (or at least this last batch in this thread). In fact the use of caplocks on the word "peace" doesn't help because it comes off as you shouting down a microphone and then throwing it on the floor as you storm off in a puff. If you wrote it as "Peace ^__^" You'd come across as far more polite. A little tip for the future.
Regards
BGBW
NeoGAF forum member
Neoriceisgood
Member
People who post things I disagree with.
It annoys me when people end their posts with </thread>. I think it's rude to put your opinion over others in a discussion and if anything the OP or a maybe a mod gets to deceide when a topic is finished.
It also hurts my eyes as it's syntactically wrong as there is no opening tag anywhere to be found.
I also don't like the usage of spoiler tags for anything that's not a spoiler like
or
It also hurts my eyes as it's syntactically wrong as there is no opening tag anywhere to be found.
I also don't like the usage of spoiler tags for anything that's not a spoiler like
j/k
Please don't hate me!!
kurisu_1974
Banned
The ironing.
So you wonder how it can ever annoy anybody, while you obviously use it specifically to bother people. Nice.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Hey, to be fair to him, if GAF has a problem with his PEACE-ing his posts, I am sure mods would have done something by now, wouldn't they? And yet as far as I know they let him be, and if I am a mod I would personally let him be as well--it's not nearly as offensive as people would like to believe, in my opinion
lastplayed
Member
Not really forum specific, but people who think its always needs an apostrophe.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Oh, and for some illogical, totally unreasonable reason that I can't pinpoint, I always dislike those who put their real face as their avatar. Makes me want to punch them
Melchiah
Member
Quoting the same gif over and over again is even worse (that f**cking Banderas gif), and makes it a pain in the ass to view a thread on a phone, when the gif is posted over a dozen times on the same page. I kinda wish there was a guideline included in the Gaf rules regarding that habit.
Coreda
Member
Oh, and for some illogical, totally unreasonable reason that I can't pinpoint, I always dislike those who put their real face as their avatar. Makes me want to punch them
I'm willing to bet that many of those mistakes terrisus referred as "sounding" correct are made by native English speakers. At least they are made by people who have much better oral skills in the language than writing skills and a large enough vocabulary to know similar sounding words and their spelling (for the record, I had to check what muzzle was).
They also make sense only in English and as I said I have a very hard time dechiphering them because they don't make any sense in my native tongue. I usually figure out the common mistakes quite easily but sometimes I don't know all the words used. If that happens I usually mouth the words trying to figure out their pronounciation and try to find words I know that sound similar and would make the phrase understandable.
What I'm trying to say is that writing "muzzle memory" instead of "muscle memory" is a very hard mistake to make for people who aren't fluent with the language. It's a mistake made by people who "write like they talk" without thinking what they're writing.
I'm not saying we "English as a second/third language" -folk are somehow better writers. We have enough botched spellings, incorrectly (and illogically) constructed sentences, directly translated phrases and he/she confusion to make any grammar nazi's life a misery.
NekoFever
Member
Also people who speak English (or any language) as a second language will often have learnt in an academic setting, where they were actually taught the grammar and vocabulary.
Native speakers learn orally from their parents and people around them, and therefore pick up the mistakes of others and create their own by mishearing.
The silly, nonsensically mangled phrases like "muzzle memory" or "for all intensive purposes" will come almost entirely from native speakers.
immortal-joe
Member
Animosity when it's uncalled for
Not reading the OP
Not reading the OP
Not at all. Christ, shit was still being quoted on the 5th page
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Salty was around and in use way before this forum-just another example of experience bubbles.
Felix Lighter
Member
Honestly, the thing that irritates me most are the perpetually miserable posters especially when they are unnecessarily antagonistic.
kurisu_1974
Banned
It bothers me that it bothers people when they think someone is incorrectly using 'literally'
adverb
1.in a literal manner or sense, exactly; the driver took it literally when asked to go straight over the roundabout,
2.informal used for emphasis while not being literally true; I have received literally thousands of letters
So literally can literally go both ways.
adverb
1.in a literal manner or sense, exactly; the driver took it literally when asked to go straight over the roundabout,
2.informal used for emphasis while not being literally true; I have received literally thousands of letters
So literally can literally go both ways.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
The second one isn't officially part of the definition that I know of.
Edit: guess it is. Still doesn't excuse it for being stupid as fuck though.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
lol @ Pimpwerx. dude should reinvent himself.
That's a backwards definition that only got added due to misuse.
Literally should be erased from the English language.
I'll repeat something people have said about a zillion times:
People who don't even bother to read the OP.
People who don't even bother to read the OP.
misuse of spoiler tags really should be banable. It's gotten to the point where people have to play spoiler roulette on whether or not the spoiler tags is actually a spoiler, or just some HILARIOUS punchline the poster thinks is so clever and cute. IT"S NOT, it's just fucking annoying.
In nearly 10 years of posting on GAF, I've added two people to my ignore list. One of them is Pimp. It's one thing to be annoying. It's annoying thing to be annoying and a terrible poster.
EatinOlives
Member
Quote spamming needs to be banned. I understand the rationale behind it, when something's so funny people kind of want to bring up to attention, but in some cases it's way too fucking obnoxious and even kills the joke.
If we're on the sixth page of a topic and people are still going "LOOLOL" and "dead" at the first post, a mod needs to step in and start telling people to cut it out. It adds exactly zero to the discussion, its only purpose (to bring it to attention) has been fulfilled many times several pages before, it's not clever or funny, and it's outright spam. With gifs it's even worse like you said. It cripples many browsers, especially phones, and it clutters entire pages at a time with one looping image.
I'm not saying make a hard rule and start handing out permabans with no warning, but I don't know why mods let entire threads be shit all over with quote spamming, especially with how strict spamming is in general. You get called out by both mods and members for double or triple posting, I see this as far worse.
Because it is the same single fucking word at the end of ten thousand posts.PEACE said:
It is redundant. It is pointless. It is a waste of time for you to write it, and a waste of time for us to read it.
It makes you sound like a broken record. Does anyone enjoy listening to a broken record? Does anyone like hearing a single word repeated ten thousand times? I don't, and I think it's clear that a grand majority of other people here don't as well.
Here's something I want you to imagine doing for the rest of the day, if not actually practice: every time you physically speak, append that utterance with the word "peace". When you order food at McDonalds, I want you to say: "Yo, gimmie a #1 with large fries. Peace.". When that clerk asks if you're paying by credit or debit, I want you to say: "Debit. Peace.". When you engage in sexual intercourse, I want you to keep grunting "Peace. Peace. Peace." as you go through the motions. After you do this long enough, I would hope that you come to realize how completely repetitive and therefore unintelligent that makes you sound. It is this reason that is my source of aggravation.
Already done. If the Neogaf++ extension was working properly, I'd never know that you were still here. The only reason that I can see these posts is because someone else quoted them.PEACE said:
Regardless, the entire point of this thread is to bitch about forum posting habits that piss you off. Signing posts piss me and other people off. Therefore, we have said so.
This means that you are trolling with every single post you write then, right?PEACE said:
Making this kind of admission also undermines your argument about the signature not being offensive. That's no longer the case when you clearly state here that you do it with the intent of being an asshole.
Looking at it now, the gif thing as your only response is getting played out. It doesn't really contribute to a lot of debates/discussion. General hype/excitement? Sure they're cool.
I'm guilty of this too, and I'm really trying to cut back on it.
I also hate iOS emoticons. So /fucking/ much.
I'm guilty of this too, and I'm really trying to cut back on it.
I also hate iOS emoticons. So /fucking/ much.
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