5 people like this post.Not using caps and punctuation, making this place look like Facebook.
5 people like this post.Not using caps and punctuation, making this place look like Facebook.
C'mon man. For example, looking at your avatar, I see a girl who looks naked and about to cry. How is that not creepy.creeper.
Yeah: "Allergic"
Ya I seriously think discussion would improve BIG TIME without these people. I am not asking that everyone disagrees with me. I just want the disagreement to be meaningful and not a stupid "I corrected you on something so I win and you lose" style post.Fuck these people---and not in a good way.
Make a thread complaining about message board habits.
Agree 100% with the part in spoilers.This is the kind of thread that belongs on Reddit.
That. If you really hate a thread, why even respond In it?
Those dicks who are overly aggressive. Fuck those assholes.
People who use then in place of than. Why why WHY?
STRAWMAN
GENERALIZE MUCH?
"You didn't answer my question" - yet you did, over and over and over again
That happens SO much. And what's annoying is that when the one posting it is defending a majority opinion, almost no one will out this ad hominem tactic.Saying, "If you believe ______, then you're a fucking idiot", without any argument being made for your case beyond that. So damn cheap and lazy.
I want to kill people who:
1) post "something something keyword or key phrase something something". Thanks for lazily posting something that everyone saw a mile away. I'm sure everyone is glad to have read what you typed.
2) respond to a post just to debunk one part of it but ignore the rest, where the part that got debunked still leaves the main point of the post in tact. Thanks for sticking to the point.
3) respond to a post that argues in favor of changing a system by saying the poster doesn't understand how it works. No. I understand how it works. I'm talking about how I think it SHOULD work, not how it DOES work.
4) make things personal.
Making statements based on personal opinions and ignoring other's.
Posting "/thread".
Man, imagine discussion on NeoGAF turning into well thought-out disagreements as polite as old men enjoying cognac and cigars.Nothing I'd actually want to hurt anyone over, but I'd love the mods to be liberal about banning people for common logical fallacies like straw men and ad hominem attacks.
Man, imagine discussion on NeoGAF turning into well thought-out disagreements as polite as old men enjoying cognac and cigars.
Man, imagine discussion on NeoGAF turning into well thought-out disagreements as polite as old men enjoying cognac and cigars.
Nothing I'd actually want to hurt anyone over, but I'd love the mods to be liberal about banning people for common logical fallacies like straw men and ad hominem attacks.
Lol!First post nails it.
this is fascismyour vs. you're
I also hate threads where the OP consists of a one sentence statement and fits more along the lines of a blog post than a topic of discussion.
Thread posting habits such as:
- Those with clear agendas
- Depressing news stories
The latter is just to get everyone to come in and say how sad it is or have people talk about their own street justice. The former just ends in people getting banned.
This. Grammar nazis in general, really. They tend to emerge when the poster has no way to counter someone's argument so they address their spelling/grammar instead. It's pointless. 99% of GAF knows the difference between you're and your - if you see someone switch the two, it's a temporary brain fart and you're just coming off as a dick for pointing it out. The arrogance of people who actually believe they're "educating" the forum with such observations.your vs. you're
I also hate threads where the OP consists of a one sentence statement and fits more along the lines of a blog post than a topic of discussion.
First post nails it.
I dunno about Plywood, but personally, I think there's a difference between having an opinion/agenda that you are willing to re-evaluate if the evidence points towards your opinion possibly being wrong, versus people who have an opinion/agenda and they are sticking to it no matter what, because winning an argument is more important to them than empirically finding the right nuanced stance to take on a issue.I agree with the latter - depressing news threads are pointless. I only enter them now to witness the inevitable "why even post this?" backlash.
The former, though...doesn't everyone with an opinion have an agenda? Do you really expect people to argue a point without attempting to score a point for their team, so to speak?
I'm talking about those who look for things that aren't there, I mean those that make everything into a debate. That bring a whole thread down over whatever they want to talk about of course they're not completely at fault since people respond to them.The former, though...doesn't everyone with an opinion have an agenda? Do you really expect people to argue a point without attempting to score a point for their team, so to speak?
This as well.I dunno about Plywood, but personally, I think there's a difference between having an opinion/agenda that you are willing to re-evaluate if the evidence points towards your opinion possibly being wrong, versus people who have an opinion/agenda and they are sticking to it no matter what, because winning an argument is more important to them than empirically finding the right nuanced stance to take on a issue.
Didn't even think of that, but ya tha can get irritating if you spend a little time going back a few pages worth to find the post and then only discover it after giving up.Editing later quotes/replies into their posts so that everything's all out of order. I hate reading a thread and wondering where something someone's replying to came from, only for it to turn up three posts later.
In before someone above quotes this in their post.
Editing later quotes/replies into their posts so that everything's all out of order. I hate reading a thread and wondering where something someone's replying to came from, only for it to turn up three posts later.
In before someone above quotes this in their post.
Those dicks who are overly aggressive. Fuck those assholes.