What are your biggest Fluther pet peeves?

I have none.

I love Fluther for the good, the bad, and the ugly. When it’s all mixed together it is one of the most entertaining places to visit on the web. I have also met some excellent individuals here that I don’t think I would have gotten to know any other way. Just remember folks, sweet ain’t quite as sweet without the sour.

Stay golden Fluther.

When I show up late to a heated question and all the interesting comments have been moderated, leaving an entire thread completely unintelligible.

@Seek_Kolinahr . . . i was there. it was outstanding . . .

Jellies who try to control me because they think I’m weak because I’m a Christian.

I don’t like the new nickname Squishies. We are Jellies or Flutherites.

^I agree.

Bitchin’ and whinin’ about stuff (moderation).

Bitchin’ and whinin’, bitchin’ and whinin’. Navy beans, navy beans. Meatloaf sandwich.

sloppy joe sloppy sloppy joe

Not knowing If I should respond to someone @talljasperman writes to me. I feel embarrassed from setting out my dirty laundry. I also hate when I write an answer and accidently touch my keypad mouse and delete everything at once.

Nowt really, it’s just a little old Q&A site that’s not worth the energy to get worked up over, for me anyway.
One aspect bugs me like a fly on my fish supper though, questions which carry a pitifully obvious hidden agenda, shut the fuck up already.

I hate it when I’m on Fluther, and then wolves bust down my door and eat my family.

Love! ^^

I think when things get a little out of hand/long winded in a thread, we should all break for intermission and grab a beer. I suggest playing this. Then, back it.

When I request stories of personal experience and people give advice instead.

Fact from fiction, truth from diction, have to get my lick in at bugging people, maybe I will turn it into a Boring Question and find a way to introduce women fashion and how they appear in them as part of it also. Now having peeved many off I can get to what peeves me. On top of the two you mentioned I would add:

• People who don’t bother to answer the question but rather question why the question was asked.
• Those people who don’t answer the question but debate the context of the question or the spirit in which the question was asked.
• Relationship questions. If you do not know what to do in your relationship, maybe you shouldn’t have one until yon grow up.
• Sex question by high schoolers. If you don’t know, like piloting a plane; wait.
• Those who feel the need to criticize others to make their point seem more valid.
• [NSFW] questions about stuff you should know about, or care not what anyone thinks, if youn want to do them, then just go do it.
• Support lurveing, it so disqualifies the meaning for it and make it as useful as Monopoly money in spirit, it is useless as Monopoly money in reality.
• Fluther bullying
• Anyone who faults believers because they believe in science knowing it is flawed, and trying to diminish God because He isn’t.
• My comments or question being used as fodder for support lurveing.

There are a few more, but I am sure before this thread is over someone will do something to remind me

l. Clicking on a list of Questions for you only to find out a spammer has been at work.
2. What is your favorite….....

My bugs are:
* People that don’t actually answer the question – they get off topic and comment about something that was included in a previous post and then, soon, the whole thread is slightly off kilter.
* Going bonkers whenever someone brings up God or religion – live and let live, people.
* Confusing cleverness and rudeness.

<— confusing cleverness and rudeness since december 25, 2008

-When people think a disagreement is an attack. Not unique to Fluther, of course. This is a human issue most of all.
-When people can’t disagree without attacking.
-As others have said, when people answer the question they want to answer, not the actual question asked.
-Dream interpretation questions. This one is somewhat unique to Fluther because other forums I’ve been on don’t have near as many questions about that topic. Although I haven’t seen one in a while, which is good.
-The strict moderation is a little bit of a bother for me sometimes. To me, it doesn’t keep things too “civil” to never let anyone vent their frustrations with certain users. I get that that will never change and there are benefits to it. But I just thought it was worth mentioning.

Poor grammar.

The community manager. She sucks. ~

^^ Not!

Yes, extreme grammar correction, no need to humiliate someone even if there are writing standards. Otherwise….my occasional habit of going off topic and out into left field, probably is a pet peeve of those that don’t get right brained, non-linear thinking types that make lots of random connections that evade others. lol
For me it is obvious assholes that are just grievances looking for a cause, haha

Looking at one of my answers and seeing a misspelled word and not being able to fix it.

Community manager does not suck.

I agree with the OP about feeling annoyance at members who are constantly correcting grammar. And yes, we do get it already, you’re smart and have a superior education and know all kinds of obscure stuff and many foreign languages. OK already.

Spammers – they usually seem to arrive around 5 a.m., EST, because if I log on early in the morning, there may be a bunch of new answers, and it will turn out to be ads for sneakers, handbags, etc.

All the religion questions lately to me, seem like a bid to just start arguments. Just my opinion, but as I repeatedly state on those questions, can’t we all just get along? It almost seems like, now, when someone asks a question about religion, they’re being a bit flame-ish, just by asking, even if they’re exceedingly polite in their wording. Again, just my opinion.

Kids coming on here asking what does it mean if I dream about a guy or something seemingly silly like that. I understand, silly is in the eye of the beholder, but the questions are so “14 year old-ish.”

Other than that, I love Fluther, I have no problems with the mods or modding (they’re doing a job), and I love being part of this community and having this community to ask, answer and kill time with. When I am on Fluther, I feel like I’m in a room with my friends (even though I am not friends with everyone, but I feel like it’s a big, warm, fuzzy, yet sometimes dysfunctional community).

BTW, you guys will be happy to know that we’ve been modding off the “dream” questions as duplicates.

When I have a dream about @augustlan and no one will tell me what it means.

When I flirt with Randy, then he leaves. AGAIN.

When people post serious comments (or questions) that make absolutely no sense, and I waste time wondering if they are mentally challenged.

In the guidelines, it says not to use txtspk, but apparently acronyms are okay. I’m always stumped by them because they are acronyms I’ve never heard of. Can we get something straight—what the hell does OP mean??

I also used to get annoyed at people not answering a question with what seemed like much thought. I think though I do that myself only because maybe I didn’t read the question properly or understand what the asker was really asking. It would be nice if people chose a question and really read it and then answered it as opposed to trailing and just answering like a habit. You know, click ‘Oh a question’ answer, click…..

I understand the grammar thing can get annoying when a question remains unanswered and the grammar point has been made and the question kind of derails. I don’t personally mind being corrected at all. It does irk me though, when a question that needs an answer does not get one in favor of grammar.

never mind…blame it on the 3 Coronas.

I want to be able to ask joke questions. Phooey on joke questions being verboten. And that’s no joke.

@ETpro Haha…I always interject humor..it’s just who I am…sadly, especially via online communication, my humor is often misconstrued. Oh well…life IS a great cosmic joke, if ya can;t laugh, must suck to be you! lol

@ETpro I’m curious to know why you don’t go to a joke question site to do that? Surely there are places that would welcome your jokes.

When no one gives me any lurve
I have feelings, too! :(

People who complain about a question or criticize it, when they simply just could have ignored it. I also don’t like it when people ask serious questions and people try to derail the thread instead of actually staying on topic.

@ETpro Here’s one

@ETpro Yeah, I do get you. Apparently everyone thought I was seriously going to stick a Ready for Hillary bumper sticker on my car. I thought since I asked the question in social and I did add humor in my topics, that would hint that my question was a joke question.

I ask in General when I’m serious. Social, for me at least, is meant for fun.

@Coloma Well I for one appreciate your mirth.

@YARNLADY I was on Answerbag, which allowed joke questions. But that f***ing place is now a joke. So I came over here.

Jokes-share is not what I’m talking about. I like to ask questions that are funny, not just relay canned jokes I have heard. Answerbag was cool with that, but I got my question deleted on my very first try here, shortly after arriving back in 2009.

@jonsblond True. With malice aforethought, you CAN get away with it now and then. :-)

@ETpro and I yours. Damn, I am so sick of people with the personality of a loaf of bread,
Mostly sour dough! Heh!

I think I’m more a marble rye, myself.

^^^ Ooh, I love marble rye. If we ever meet, can I eat you?

Coloma takes the marble rye and runs with it. However….I did break a tooth on toasted marble rye last spring and had to get a crown. The trauma has left me afraid of toasted marble rye. lol

i fear I may have bitten off more than I can chew…

I lurve you guys, but another pet peeve of mine is when I return to a question and all the answers are about food. :P

@WillWorkForChocolate I dreamt of @augustlan just last night! I can’t get that whip out of my head now. I wish I could ask a question about it.

@jonsblond Pancakes. :P

It rubs me the wrong way when people obviously did not read the details to a question. I also dislike the fact that asking a question garners fewer lurve points than answers do.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I have just decided that my next pet will be named Peeves.

@Hawaii_Jake Can I be your next pet? Please, please… I’m very peevish. In fact I’m getting pissed off it’s taking you so long to answer. Fuhgeddaboudit!

@ETpro Oh dear, I was thinking of getting a toy poodle, but I might be swayed. Have you had your shots?

The spam questions irritate me, especially the same thing appearing over and over.

@Hawaii_Jake Shots? Definitely Fuhgeddaboudit!!!

People that just have to post something so they can add their little bit of unfunny commentary when a thread has gone off-topic. If your capacity for wit is slim to none, save it for Facebook.

I know most people think they’re just hilarious, but seriously some members are so lame and predictable with their little comments it’s painful.

@FutureMemory People who just live here to find an opportunity to tell someone else what a useless but of humanity they are.

@dxs” “OP” means “original poster” = the person who asked the question.

Bellyachers.

God botherers claiming ” special knowledge ” supporting their favorite magic man

Whinging god botherers.

Both religious a secular creationists.

The scientifically illiterate.

Ideologues.

The phrase, ” believe in. ”

Oh, did I forget English majors turned into spelling and grammar police who do not even know why the sky is blue?

^ Self-proclaimed scientists who don’t have a basic understanding of grammar and spelling?

>secular creationists
That’s a thing?

“People that just have to post something so they can add their little bit of unfunny commentary when a thread has gone off-topic. If your capacity for wit is slim to none, save it for Facebook.

I know most people think they’re just hilarious, but seriously some members are so lame and predictable with their little comments it’s painful.”

Directed at me?

@Michael_Huntington

http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/Ehrenreich.html

Quite a thing. Been around as long as post modernism ( as this article shows ) and, I think, it is as pernicious as creationism. Any empiricist ( blank slate advocate ) is a secular creationist; someone who thinks humans are not subject to evolutionary processes. .

@Seek_Kolinahr

Did I mention people who just throw things out there that are not addressed and make little to no sense?

@Neodarwinian I think the little arrow in the front of her post meant it was directed at you.

@janbb

Really? How subtle! Or is that the word?

Until you called my attention to it I did not even see it. The arrow that is.Sight fails.

Regardless, when addressing someone on this or another site this symbol is used.

@@@@@@
===========Now, speaking of proper grammar!

Perhaps one who believes that humans were created by mortal aliens could be considered a “secular creationist”.

@Brian1946

Possible, but the troublesome ones are as I said in my comment above, not so much tin foil hat wearers though they could be sized for such apparel.

Now that @Neodarwinian mentions it…

I’ll admit that I have done this on occasion, but jellies not using the @username feature when addressing someone bugs me. Once I’ve answered a question, I may or may not carefully read each answer that follows. If I skim through it and someone was speaking to me without bothering to address me, I’m probably never going to see it. Or if they address me as ”@LLL” or ”@livelaugh,” I probably won’t see that either.

Man, some people are miserable.

I forgot another one of mine: people who create alternate accounts just so they can anonymously be raging douchebags. I do have an alternate account, but it was created for innocent reasons on a very funny thread, and everyone knew it was me, anyway.

^^ What she said!

@livelaughlove21 Just a guess, but those might be from users like me who use the mobile site. It doesn’t have a drop-down with previous respondents’ names like the regular site does.

For what it’s worth, 99.9% of my Fluthering these days is done from a mobile phone that doesn’t support the automagical @username box thing, and has an autocorrect feature forged in the armpits of Shelob.

You also don’t get a drop-down when you edit your response to include an @someone. Some usernames are really hard to remember correctly if you want to use the @ in editing.

@WillWorkForChocolate

Ever been to AOL answers? The home of the alternate accounts. People can ask and answer their own questions, give themselves ” up ” points and generally drown out serious users with ideological nonsense.

@Seek_Kolinahr

Then get the attention of the intended target some way!!!

As to grammar and spelling. My spelling is atrocious and my grammar is probably not up to English major standards. So? I had a chemistry teacher who went to Princeton and stressed grammar ( something about complete sentences in lab notes ), but that was the only science teacher I had that did that. You should try to read the lab books of most scientists! Check Jerry Coyme’s site, why evolution is true, and see a major scientist with spelling and grammar problems. Now Richard Dawkins is another story.

Try to prioritize.

Lack of jelly naked pics.

Does he like me?:(

@Neodarwinian . . . Generally one of the first things that children learn is to speak in a way that is both understandable and polite. It greatly enhances both the idea you are trying to convey and the attitude with which you are conveying it.

@mazingerz88 You go first.

@wildpotato I’m on the mobile sit every time I come on Fluther and I manage just fine.

^^ Nooooooo…..let’s not have him go 1st

@Mama_Cakes Nothing I said was directed at you, silly.

And to clarify my above comments…

I love humor. Live for it. When I was a more active poster, I would make a lot of humorous comments, often very sarcastic. I usually stayed on topic though. (I like to think of my brand of humor as constructive ridicule) Humor does have its place, but I think some folks try to squeeze some out of threads where it really just doesn’t belong and/or make sense. For example someone makes an off-topic comment about cooking in a thread that has nothing to do with cooking or food at all, then half a dozen people swoop in with more boring and unfunny quips about food. Ugh, seriously, cut that shit out. Save it for Facebook.

@Mama_Cakes If you do this I am not aware of it. I haven’t paid attention to who does it, for the most part.

@livelaughlove21 As do I. Just sayin’.

There are a few things that might irritate me a little at the time of seeing them but I try not to dwell on them too much (at best I may muster up an eye roll!!). Every so often someone will join that is so overly opinionated (but not always well educated in what they are claiming to “know” or understand) they manage to put a negative spin on whole threads just by being around. They annoy me and I am always glad when they disappear!

@jca thanks!

Another for me:

Condescending a**holes.

Young’ish members that think they know it all. People that are in there teens to early 20’s that think they have a clue about life really make me laugh. You gotta give ‘em a little slack though, it’s almost impossible to be that age and not think you have it all figured out. I know I thought I did.

their, not there. Argh.

@FutureMemory has been a bad boy!

@FutureMemory I’m that age and I think that some people my age are like that, but then that makes me think that I’m one of them for thinking that.

A lot of people in every age group think they know everything there is to know about life. That’s quite clear on Fluther and elsewhere.

True. We’re always learning aren’t we?

@FutureMemory Age doesn’t equal wisdom…stupid people grow old, too.

Haha.

People who eat while fluthering- I can hear them smacking through the computer wave thingies… OMG, you’re still doing it! Stop it!

Veggie sticks. Supper crunchy and delicious with a Coal Porter Beer in a frosted glass. Hear it and twist in the wind. Bwahahaha!

It drives me slightly crazy that @jonsblond and @blondesjon spell blond/blonde differently.

^@blondesjon our plan worked…mwhahaha

Flame Baiting for the slightest of things.
Also commenting judgmentally against someone with a different opinion or different way of life.

@Eggie Ah, you see, I have a different opinion and different way of life from you in that I see a vital need to criticize certain opinions and ways of live. I find your answer judgemental, making you guilty of the very thing you seek to condemn. ~

Have I mentioned arrogance and people with a superiority complex? these people need to get over themselves.

People with an apartment complex whose surname is Bridge, these people need to get over themselves too :)

^*Ahahaha!!!

The time it takes to stop following multiple questions.