Annoying DU behaviors and patterns: What bugs you?

[prolesunited]

I hate it when somebody is insulting or condescending and then sticks in a little wave or smiley face.

[NightWatcher]

1. screw you

:hug:





kinda like that?

It's like saying, "you are an asshole, but dont take that the wrong way"

[Chovexani]

2. I'm guilty of that, I admit

But only when it's deserved.

My peeve is obvious trolls who don't even try to be clever. 10 post crash and burn types. Why even bother? :shrug:

[prolesunited]

3. Usually, when I insult someone

I use this one :P
It just seems more appropriate.

Trolls? Clever? You do realize that's mutually exclusive, don't you?

[Chovexani]

7. I dunno if clever's the right word

Maybe hardworking? It seems like trolls these days don't even try anymore. I'm a veteran of Usenet and remember when trolls really worked hard to ingratiate themselves into communities and then piss them off.

[CreekDog]

15. it's kind of gross if you have a dirty mind

:yoiks:

[prolesunited]

21. I'll be sure not to use that in replying to you

In fact, this will likely be the last time I do so.

[CreekDog]

25. sorry, did i ruin it?

:cry:

also, if i offended you, let me know, i'll edit my post. :pals:?

[DS1]

4. blatantly dishonest praise

that doesn't do anyone any good

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. This is the most amazing post I have ever seen!

If I could recommend it I would! :P

[Midlodemocrat]

29. OMG! GMTA. This is the greatest post ever!!!

:bounce:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. Christ! Give this woman a DUzy!

[DarkTirade]

5. Well then you're gonna HATE me...

:P

I keed, I keed. I'm not insulting or condescending most of the time. Just snarky.

Although if I feel it's necessary, I'm totally down with the whole insulting or condescending thing. :)

[cloudbase]

6. Closing with "just saying"

after posting some tin foil subject matter, as though including that somehow makes the content worthy of serious consideration.

[EstimatedProphet]

48. Yeah, well aliens have taken over your mind, AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!

Just sayin'...

[DarkTirade]

90. I do that a lot...

but it's usually pretty obvious that I'm joking right from the start because my tin foil subject matters usually involve weird combinations like time travelers, aliens, rubber chickens and/or shoelaces.

[Danger Mouse]

8. You're in luck! I made a reference guide.

Here you go:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1456738
There are plenty of others since then, now that primary season is reaching peak nastiness, but that was what pissed me off at the time.
'Truth to power' still pisses me off to no end.

[prolesunited]

10. Well, that was July

We need a refresher course.

[Danger Mouse]

11. Haha, i might just have to make a new one for primary season...

[PVnRT]

32. Yeah, time to speak truth to power

:eyes:

Just sayin'...

[Danger Mouse]

73. Maybe you stumbled onto the wrong website.

Or you came up from under the bridge.
Thanks for playing.
:popcorn:

I hate myself. :cry:

[Quantess]

79. "Thanks for playing"

Overused.

[PVnRT]

86. I'm not a troll so much as I am an assclown (n/t)

[AlCzervik]

9. "Discuss"

[Redstone]

12. People who complain about what other people do.

Redstone

[BarenakedLady]

51. Seconded.

:thumbsup:

[Inchworm]

54. Get some clothes on!

You'll freeze yer patubies off!

Flirt- Flirt- Flirt- :loveya:

:hi:

[jpgray]

80. Like, say, speculatively discussing Bhutto's death?

:D

[Lautremont]

13. "Ask me anything."

Oh, wait... I'm in the Lounge, aren't I? Damn.

[quip]

16. Truth to power, baby!

Just sayin' :hi:

[CreekDog]

14. Thank you for your concern

:hi: :)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. When I make a post in GD or GDP like "the sky is blue"

and I get dozens of responses from practically everyone on Democratic Underground picking it apart with statements like:

"no, the sky is light blue"

"well actually it's more turquoise"

"well actually it's rather deep blue"

"well you see the sky is clearly indigo"

"well you know you're absolutely wrong. It's dark blue"

"you're full of shit, the sky is actually black but you only think it's blue because of the light from the sun"

"asshole, the sky is cloudy today over my house"

[prolesunited]

33. Well, you are on a board full of dems and progressives

If you want a blue sky with no variations, you should head over to Freak Republic. :P

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

39. Often it seems to be contrariness just for the sake of being contrary

with no major divergence with the basic idea of a post. There are a lot of huge egos in GD and GDP and, to me at least, it seems that unless your post bears the personal imprimatur of the nuance of their opinion, they disparage its thought in its entirety. As far as Freak Republic goes, NO THANK YOU!

[enigmatic]

18. SCREAMING CAPS IN THREAD TITLES

I'm a pacifist but man, I'm ready to strangle a couple of the most unhinged posters of those in GD....

[Reverend_Smitty]

50. CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!11!!!!1

like this? :P

[TrogL]

53. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ....

and there's always BradBlog's entries.

[prolesunited]

67. Or TURN ON THE TV RIGHT NOW!!!!

Um... which channel. :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

63. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??!!

he he....

[Jamastiene]

19. Same here. Also...

homophobic tripe like Ann "the man" Coulter references. That always really gripes my ass when someone feels the need to insult GLBT people and even worse transgendered people by trying to lump Ann Coulter, of all people, in with us. Blech. We don't want her.

[Lautremont]

20. I don't particularly like that either and I don't do it,

but I think what most of those people are clumsily trying to express is their mock disapproval that, if she were transgendered, she's trying to hide it, as well as being someone who regularly facilitates homophobia. No issue with your opinion, but I don't know if everyone who goes there in their Coulter criticisms is a homophobe themselves. But god knows, there's enough other stuff to call her on.

[Jamastiene]

23. Yep, especially her awful rude comments she makes at times.

She's a disgusting person by any standard.

[tjwmason]

78. Or the way that any Republican homophobe is assumed to be gay

or indeed any Republican that the poster has got a particular animus with at that point in time.

[Lex]

22. "you people"

any OP with "you people" -- I cringe.

[Fire Walk With Me]

26. Threads about replicants.

And replicant threads.

[petronius]

27. People who use "m'kay?" to end a snarky post

Just once, I wish someone would say that to me in person - just once, and POW! Right in the kisser!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

58. yup

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. People who blimp threads wile nile.

Rude and eats cyberspace.

[lildreamer316]

31. Okay, that took me a min.

...and please,please don't think I'm being rude; seriously. I don't often do this, but did you mean "Willy-nilly"?
Not trying to be snarky, I really could not understand.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

43. Ahem, no, I meant wile nile. It's an old Egyptian term used by a sly Cairo blimpists association.

:-)

[lildreamer316]

47. LOL

Very well done. ;)

[taterguy]

30. People who bitch about cars

Those people annoy the shit out of me

[Pierre.Suave]

37. so what you are saying

is my one bitch about my car thread annoyed the shit out of you?

:P

[billyskank]

34. People who never respond to messages.

[fudge stripe cookays]

64. Maybe they have good reasons.

If someone annoys me and continues to PM, I don't reply either.

[billyskank]

76. Is that a subtle dig?

I hardly know you, but if I annoy you perhaps you should use the ignore feature.

[fudge stripe cookays]

110. No, but....

neediness turns a lot of people off. I've seen your posts.

I'm just telling you my opinion based on what I've seen.

[MrMickeysMom]

109. Ooooh, that's a good one...

Or, if you recognize someone and greet them with a, "hello", but they ignore you. Then much later, find you could actually comment to them specifically, having given them the benefit of the doubt of the first ignore in the thread. But then when you post something again... they say something like... "uh huh"....

That's so cold...

[RadiationTherapy]

35. I really dislike "thanks for playing" a head patting dismissal that would get you

smacked in my "old neighborhood"

[Maine-ah]

36. post and run in GD.

oh, and other forums, but mostly GD.

[MissMillie]

38. people who have to have the last word

it usually ends up getting them into trouble anyway.

There are likely to be disagreements from time to time. Sometimes you have to just agree to disagree and let something go.

oh yeah, and subject lines that just have a period in them "."

[billyskank]

41. I'm guilty of that last one.

:blush:

[MissMillie]

42. just use more than one

that way getting the cursor on it isn't so difficult.

[woo me with science]

44. The woo factor.

Homeopathy, astrology, recovered abuse memories, ghosts.

I thought democrats were supposed to be the party of science.

[TZ]

49. I'll second that

BTW, I know you can't post without a star but there is a pseudoscience, skeptics, and science group here.
You'd probably enjoy reading the discussions. Alot of the science oriented people on the board hang out there....:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

99. Ah, yes, the woooos.

Astrology is especially annoying to me. It's one thing to be silly and facetious about it ("My Virgoness is perfection to your arrogant Leo ass!!11!1!" or something like that), but this honest belief in it--in groups of stars somehow having any influence whatsoever over your life--is not just short-sighted and anciently foolish but, in some cases, inhibiting to real scientific progress/thought. Carl Sagan does an amazing tear-down of it in Cosmos, I think--polite and eloquent as ever, yet cuttingly accurate.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

45. Copycat threads

I've never seen one that was even mildly amusing. It's a way of saying, "Look at me, I have nothing original to say but I want attention!"

[bigwillq]

55. Oh yeah. Very, very annoying (nt)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

103. Some are quite clever.

The vast majority are tiresome.

[EstimatedProphet]

46. Oh, like anyone wants your opinion anyway!

:hi:

[Skittles]

52. I WILL KICK YOUR ASS

:hi:

[Adsos Letter]

77. That doesn't get used enough these days, Skittles...

:D

[Parche]

56. &^%*&$&^%$#(%()^&)( *&)(*%^(&$*&%$^

:hi:
:rofl:

[texanwitch]

57. I have found from my early days at DU starting with GD that whatever you post will piss some off.

This is DU, lots of people.

I like it that we have different points of view here.

I only got really mad once, but I got over it.

[devilgrrl]

59. Yeah, well, I'm ovulating, what can I say?

:hi:

[lightningandsnow]

60. Transphobia.

Example.

"Tee hee hee Ann Coulter is a man! She probably has a penis! Ha ha, she's just a big ol' tranny!"

[Name removed]

61. Deleted sub-thread

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

62. Tearing down a candidate/politician simply because of one mistake.

Example -- Joe Biden and the knee-jerk reaction of "credit card-industry whore," thereby overlooking anything positive he's done or would have done.

Also, the flipside of this bothers me -- the near-canonization of certain people like Dennis Kucinich, for example. I like the guy, but he's not God, okay?

[yewberry]

65. People who put 'nt' in the body of the text and nothing else.

Defeats the purpose of typing 'nt,' doesn't it?

[Pale Blue Dot]

66. Couples who use DU as a kind of foreplay.

They are so obnoxious!!!

[TZ]

84. Yeah!!!

That bugs the hell out of me too. Get a room, already!!
:P

[SPKrazy]

68. I hate it when you know someone has

said things about another DU'er that they can't stand and then they are all gushy over them on the board like they were their biggest fan when in fact they've stated to you that they can't stand them.

:puke:

[Guava Jelly]

69. Mercerbots who trash Walken

:mad:

[Writer]

70. Treating others like they're not human beings... especially through puerile name-calling. n/t

[crim son]

71. Nothing bugs me.

Nothing. (waves benignly)

[madinmaryland]

72. "Nice post, Hitler" and something about tollbooths!

[TZ]

81. Nice Post, Jerry Jones!!!

And the endless Tony Romo kiss fests....:P

[madinmaryland]

85. Nice post, Snyder....

:hi:

[Critters2]

74. Mean people suck. nt

[Roon]

75. The brazillion joke

It's old and stupid. The joke wasn't funny the first time I heard it.

[Robb]

89. Roon is a Dingbat. nt

[Phentex]

82. People who post what I was going to say before I get

the chance to post it! Can't I have an original thought before you go and post it?! It's a good thing I READ the threads before posting! I hate being the lapdog having to say "Me too!"

[stuntcat]

112. that happens like every day to me

x(

[Maraya1969]

83. People who use capital letters to represent all sorts of things that I don't know.

There is a word for this and I can't think of it. :dunce:

And people who start threads without a synopsis of what is going on. I'm out of the loop a lot.

[AirmensMom]

87. People who parade their "expertise" in order to shut everyone else up.

Like this:

Rocket Scientist here. I am right and you are wrong. You all hate rocket scientists. If you're not a scientist, go back to the Lounge! If you are a scientist and disagree with me, you're not the right kind of scientist. Your observations are inconsequential.* My peer-reviewed shit is better than your peer-reviewed shit. Etc ...


*This means that it's not raining just because you might observe that it's raining.

:hide:

[skypilot]

88. Posts that begin with "BREAKING"...

...in General Discussion when the topic is not in fact late breaking news.

[lightningandsnow]

93. I really want to begin a post like that...

and end it with "in a pair of shoes".

or, "Your arm."

[Redneck Socialist]

91. Putting n/t in the body of the post rather than in the subject.

I mean what fucking good is putting n/t down here. I fucking click on your post and all I get is a n/t?!

:mad:

(Cue several replies that do just that...)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

92. Anything to do with animals of any kinds.

:redbox: :bluebox: :graybox: :daily: :weekly: :web:

[Bunny]

94. .

Tee hee.

:hi:

[LSK]

95. this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=132

[PeaceNikki]

96. Beating an issue to death.

Dozens and dozens of threads about a single subject. Especially if it's mean-spirited. Hide thread is a handy tool.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

97. Lee Mercer, Jr.

:P

[bigwillq]

101. For real

Give it a rest people. :mad:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

102. I don't get it.

The website is laughably dumb, but we don't exactly need 43,000 posts about it. Even in the Lounge.

[bigwillq]

104. But you know the Lounge

It's like Romper Room and when one of the "cool" people start something all the followers have to do the same.

I admit, the first Mercer thread, when the "list" was posted, was funny but that was it. Now it is just annoying. I hide any thread with the word Mercer in the subject.

[Midlodemocrat]

105. Funny. I do the same thing with all the flirting threads and the

post a pic threads and LOL cat threads.

To each his own I guess. Big difference though, I don't call people out about the silly stuff they post. Thanks, dude.

[bigwillq]

108. There's a difference between silly and overkill

I think, initially, that some of the threads i become to despise are funny. But I also don't feel there is a need for 30, 40, 50 threads on the same subject. Which is also why I don't like copycat threads.

They're kind of like movie sequels. The first one's usually always good but the second, third, fourth, fifth---not so much.

[Midlodemocrat]

111. Totally different than your previous comment.

Stating that people have the mentality of 'romper room' and are following members of the 'cool club' (whatever the fuck that is) is insulting.

Different people find different things funny. It's insulting to accuse people who like each other IRL and at DU of being cliquish and childish.

[bigwillq]

114. The Lounge

and DU do have a "Romper Room" Mentality at times. Wasn't meant to be offensive. It's just my observation and feeling.

You do have to admit that, at times, that DU (the Lounge moreso) becomes very juvenile. Sometimes that is a good thing and sometimes it is not.

Just peek into GD or GDP..I've never seen such juvenile behavior in my entire life.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

107. It gets tiresome very quickly.

"OMG LOOK AT ME!! I can reference Mercer too!! Lawlz!! Ain't I funneh???!!!1!?"

Actually, no, you're not.

:D

[mainegreen]

116. Yes I am!

:P

[stuntcat]

113. I'm..

I might have to take a break from DU until this Lee thing blows over lol

[Chovexani]

98. I'll add this trend of paid campaign trolls coming here

For the sole purpose of shit-stirring. They are not members of our community, they have nothing of merit to contribute to the site, and a week after the election they're gone.

GD: Politics would not be the cesspool that it is were it not for these assclowns throwing gasoline on the fire.

[Midlodemocrat]

100. Yup. Agree totally.

[MrMickeysMom]

106. All these fucking acronyms

Come on, you really think they save you THAT MUCH extra time?

[prolesunited]

115. Yeah

You can really tell the people who are into texting.

I still use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation. I must be an old fart.