What's your biggest pet peeve that you see on DU?

[Ter]

I'll go first. Mine is whenever we're talking about the 1994 midterm elections (or something in 1994 that speculates about media coverage), some clueless person says "Well, there was no internet then." I have even seen people go so far as to say the same thing about the 1996 election! Unreal how naive some people can be.

Posting "dial-up warnings" in thread titles used to irk me too, but then I realized that a few do indeed still have dial-up, especially those in rural towns.

[mokawanis]

1. People saying things I don't agree with

I'm tired of people having opinions that contradict mine. I've contacted Skinner and EarlG, but they won't do anything about it!

[RebelOne]

2. Bad grammar and neglecting to use spell check.

I am positive everyone knows we have spell check, but some are too lazy to utilize it.

[JaneQPublic]

3. How quickly my original posts sink into oblivion. (nt)

[madinmaryland]

4. Did you have internet service in 1994??

I think I got internet service in 1995. Though I did check out some BBS's in 1994. Pretty much just some dial-up crap that was really not worth wasting any time with.

[Ter]

9. Yes I did

I got internet service in 1994. It was amazing back then. No spam, and so simple. I was huge into BBSing too. I first went on one in 1993. That's when I first heard of the internet. It took me about a year to finally subscribe somewhere.

[madinmaryland]

11. Congrat's on your 4,000th post! I got my first real computer in late 1994, a

Packard Bell!! The internet service started with a "Pa". Can't remember what the hell it was. They haven't been around in years.

[Ter]

17. Thank you!

I didn't even notice that was my 4,000th, lol.

I got my first PC in 1993, but it was very under-powered. I upgraded in 1994 and got a 386 PC and a 2400 baud modem, and the difference was huge. I didn't subscribe to any mainstream internet service like CompuServe or AOL (was AOL around in 1994?). I subscribed to a little known one for just $3 a month. I used to send cash in an envelope, lol. I had it until like 1997. They even raised the price to $5 a month, but even that was great.

[ohiosmith]

5. Posts about pet peeves!

[pinboy3niner]

6. People asking, "What's your biggest pet peeve that you see on DU?"

I HATE that!

[hvn_nbr_2]

7. Posts that refuse to tell us what they're talking about

Some examples:

Blind links: "You MUST see this. www.SomePlaceINeverHeardOf.com/ewjwejc.html" No explanation, no summary, not one word that tells me anything about whether I'm about to view (and broadcast sound to every cubicle in the building) of puppies licking baby snakes, screaming monkeys throwing glass objects, exploding buckets of blood and Mentos, or what.

Assuming that I'm watching the same show they're watching, even though I have no idea what show they're actually talking about and I'm probably reading their post at least four hours after that show is finished: "POW! ZAP! He really blasted that nutter!" with no further information. "Did you see that?" No, I didn't, probably, although I have no idea because I have no idea what you're talking about.

Assuming that I am intimately familiar with every candidate in every House or state House or local dog catcher election in the country: "Wow, Beedlebrox is within 3 in latest polls." I have no idea who Beedlebrox is, what he/she/it is running for, what party they are, what state (or even continent) they're in.

[Myrina]

18. ^^ YES!! ^^

OMG GO TO THIS LINK **NOW** !!! really burns my ass.

[libodem]

8. It bugs me to see

Grown women using the small 'i' instead of 'I'. It denotes that one sees themselves as small, and not worthy of a capital letter to represent themselves. I think it is psychologically crippling and demeaning. It seems to say, I'm small and weak, don't challenge me, because I'll break, as I am that fragile. Or maybe just really freaking lazy.

[fizzgig]

12. i don't use capital letters period

it has nothing to do with psychology and everything to do with indifference.

[libodem]

14. When I first signed up

I tried to post with out any punctuation at all and it all ran together. One big run on sentence. I was doing a stream of consciousness that turned to crap. I'm sorry if I offended you. I can't spell. Does that help?

I never see men who don't capitalize their I's? I still think it deserves its own grant for a stud y.

[NightWatcher]

10. When an ignorant person expects his opinion to equal everyone else's on a topic

Or worse, when they expect their argument to outweigh that of someone who is well educated on a topic.

Not everyone's opinion is equal. If we're talking about a legal matter, I'd give the guy with a Juris Doctorate more credit than the nurse. On medical debates, I'll side with the nurse.

[Jamaal510]

13. I guess one pet peeve of mine is how

whenever I respond to a thread that is at least a week old that isn't on the 1st page of the GD or Politics 2013 sections, it doesn't get kicked back to the 1st page like the newer threads do. Sometimes when I find a thread interesting, I try to kick it so that I get to read more comments about it later, but this doesn't always work the older a thread is.

[Wait Wut]

15. Meta.

[LiberalEsto]

16. posting youtube videos without noting it in the title

or saying something about what it is.

I can't be bothered opening random videos- its' a waste of time.

[Myrina]

19. Not to mention ...

.... folks who DU from the workplace often have YouTube and other media sites blocked, so have no idea what it is they're looking at or missing, just a page splattered with big gray box with an X in the corner.

[femmocrat]

22. This is mine as well.

How much trouble would it be to put &quot video link)" or something like that in the title? I appreciate the "dial-up" warnings although we finally got satellite or something out here in the sticks.

[datasuspect]

20. the terminally offended

they don't realize they are intellectual lightweights.

being offended is a less than intelligent way to react to or comprehend anything.

oh, the one dimensional thinking and binary thinking.

[rurallib]

21. comments on weather and they don't say where they live

Just the area would be fine.
When someone says "wow it's 66 out," it makes a difference if it's Minnesota in January or Miami in january.