R Soul on 10/3/2010 at 19:21
Quite a few of my suggestions have already been posted (e.g. the link to imageshack's html page rather than the image itself, and ads where the X takes you to the ad page regardless), but there are still some left over:
Dark images, and also youtubes, on white backgrounds.
On some forums, there's a New Thread button inside each post.
Google searching for something, and seeing what looks like a promising result. Then getting a page which just put my Google search into it's own search engine, which is usually powered by Google.
Forums with hundreds of smilies. The ones on TTLG are enough for most moods.
New-style smilies where you have to look at the alt text to see what emotion it's trying to convey.
This smiley: (
http://historicgt.8.forumer.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) (nice forum though)
When posting a forum reply, getting a page which says "Do you want to view the reply, or go back to the forum?" That's just discouraging people from checking their posts for basic errors - wonky tags, bad links etc.
lost_soul on 10/3/2010 at 19:21
oooh, I forgot those ads that copy the Windows XP theme. This is in an attempt to full average Joe into clicking *somewhere* on them, which triggers the sponsor's web page to open, because the whole ad is a big hyper-link. I usually mock people who use these ads, because I don't use that platform (or even that theme when I do).
I also hate it when web site B holds content created by developer C hostage until we sign up for an account.
Nameless Voice on 10/3/2010 at 21:27
Sites that just link to a Google search instead of using their own internal search engine.
Hint: Google is good for finding specific sites over the entire Internet. It is not so good for searching through a specific site's content.
(e.g. TVTropes recently switched from a nice internal search engine to just using Google, blech).
Also, sites with a search box to search the entire web. I always type my searches in there assuming it'll be a site-specific search, and it just takes me to Google. Yes, I have search capability in my browser for when I want to search with Google, thank you.
ZylonBane on 10/3/2010 at 21:45
Quote Posted by R Soul
Forums with hundreds of smilies. The ones on TTLG are enough for most moods.
Forums that put a fucking
smile on the eye-rolling emoticon. WTF? That combination of things doesn't map to any normal human emotion.
Nicker on 11/3/2010 at 00:23
Quote Posted by raph
15. People who quote the entire post above just to say "lol"
And people who LOL at their own LOLs.
- Articles and news items that do not have any dates embedded in the text or titles. So you can't easily tell if the piece is recent or ancient.
- The American version of numerical dating where March, 6, 2010 becomes 03/06/2010 instead of the much more sensible (and damned near universal) 06/03/2010.
- And before I return to the actual topic of this thread, will you Yankees please adopt the Metric system!?! Remember, the
Imperial system was foisted on you by the
Imperial overseers, whose oppressive yolk you so valiantly fought free of in 1776! It is time to finish the revolution, already. Oy vey!
- People who hijack threads.
Nameless Voice on 11/3/2010 at 00:34
Quote Posted by Nicker
- The American version of numerical dating where March, 6, 2010 becomes 03/06/2010 instead of the much more sensible (and damned near universal) 06/03/2010.
2010/03/06. Sortable by name. :p
(The US system is completely nonsensical, though, as it's not in linear order either way.)
Nicker on 11/3/2010 at 00:57
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
2010/03/06. Sortable by name. :p
(The US system is completely nonsensical, though, as it's not in linear order either way.)
Yeah, The Star-date method - that's the way I do it on my computer but I didn't want to scare people with too much change at once.
- People who encourage people who hijack threads to continue their divertive antics.
ZylonBane on 11/3/2010 at 02:01
Quote Posted by Nicker
Yeah, The Star-date method - that's the way I do it on my computer but I didn't want to scare people with too much change at once.
People who put hyphens in words that don't have hyphens in them.
Thief13x on 11/3/2010 at 02:10
NO
apostrophes :mad:
"you're mom" is the stupid phrase I've ever seen in my days..
Trance on 11/3/2010 at 02:25
Well there are much stupid phrase I've ever seen.
