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[Neonivek]

Let me see...

The "CHECK OUT THIS LINK THAT I WON'T TELL YOU WHAT IT IS!!!"

No internet... I am not clicking that link unless I know what it is for.

[scrdest]

Well, welcome to humanity. Conformity was never our strong suit. Like a said, I know there's plenty of dumb arguments out there, but that means it's your duty to shift through the crap and give the stuff that's worth while it's dues, not wash all arguments under "whining".

Actually, you are both wrong and right about conformity not being humanity's strong suit.  Many people throughout history do actively try to conform with the community they are in.  The sense of being a 'normal' person within the group/community is a strong social pressure that many people get caught up in.
Of course, this conformity does get eroded, as you throw in other groups/communities to the collective/network, but it will still end up establishing a baseline of 'normal' over time as these groups/communities(cultures) are acclimated to each other, it will however have more 'variables' that do not conform to the baseline.
Then the process repeats itself as more people/groups/communities are gathered into the collective/network.

Now in modern times, individuals are not as reliant on their immediate group/community, what with the advent of instant communication, fast shipping, fast travel and how easy it is to find other groups/communities that agree with them.

Humans can easily contradict itself, interesting critters ain't they?

Misters Asch and Milgram would like to add a thing or two.

[werty892]

Extremly long suspicious links.
Example:
.LISP.MSI.LNK.ZDA.GNN.WRBT.OBJ.O.H.SWF.DPKG.APP.ZIP.TAR.TAR.CO.GZ.A.OUT.EXE]HTTPS://65.222.202.53/~TILDE/PUB/CIA-BIN/ETC/INIT.DLL
FILE=__AUTOEXEC.BAT.MY%20OSX%20DOCUMENTS-INSTALL.EXE.RAR.INI.TAR.DOÇX.PHPHPHP.XHTML.TML.XTL.TXXT.0DAY.HACK.ERS_(1995)_BLURAY_CAM-XVID.EXE.TAR.[SCR].LISP.MSI.LNK.ZDA.GNN.WRBT.OBJ.O.H.SWF.DPKG.APP.ZIP.TAR.TAR.CO.GZ.A.OUT.EXE

[Aklyon]

I think you missed a lot of extensions and at least one bracketed tag for whatever file that is.

[quinnr]

Extremly long suspicious links.
Example:
.LISP.MSI.LNK.ZDA.GNN.WRBT.OBJ.O.H.SWF.DPKG.APP.ZIP.TAR.TAR.CO.GZ.A.OUT.EXE]HTTPS://65.222.202.53/~TILDE/PUB/CIA-BIN/ETC/INIT.DLL
FILE=__AUTOEXEC.BAT.MY%20OSX%20DOCUMENTS-INSTALL.EXE.RAR.INI.TAR.DOÇX.PHPHPHP.XHTML.TML.XTL.TXXT.0DAY.HACK.ERS_(1995)_BLURAY_CAM-XVID.EXE.TAR.[SCR].LISP.MSI.LNK.ZDA.GNN.WRBT.OBJ.O.H.SWF.DPKG.APP.ZIP.TAR.TAR.CO.GZ.A.OUT.EXE

I'm guess...I'm going to pass on my XKCD annoyances. (Mainly, there was one time where I said something slightly geeky, and someone else was all "Hey, nice XKCD reference!" without me even knowing there was a strip about it. XKCD does not hold the crown of geekdom!)

Also, on the subject of punctuation. Does anyone else actually take longer to type when they use acronyms and skip punctuation? The time it takes my brain to process the conversion into English (Internet) just takes too long, and it's not a habit I'm really too eager to learn. (I probably would have developed it, but when I was pretty young, my mother told me that if I ever started using incorrect grammar on the computer, she would never let me use it again. Threat worked.)

[itisnotlogical]

People who think that 4chan is a super-secret Internet hideout, the exclusive domain of hackers and masked vigilantes willing to steal your SSN and sell it to Cuban drug lords just for the fun, and you'll get five zillion viruses just for mentioning it. Being a regular 4chan user, I can say that it's pretty much like any Internet forum, except that there's a ton of boards (subforums, I guess they'd be called around here) and nobody pulls punches if a discussion gets rather heated. There aren't even that many troll threads on the nicer boards, maybe once every couple of days.

Also, I'm not sure if this counts as a habit but "90's kids". Yes, I remember Spongebob, it hasn't ceased production since its debut. Do you remember Captain Planet or Vanilla Ice? I thought so.

[Redzephyr01]

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[Darvi]

People who lump all people in a given group together with the subset of those people who are actually annoying.

[freeformschooler]

People who lump all people in a given group together with the subset of those people who are actually annoying.

Oh snap

[Ogdibus]

Arguments made entirely, or almost entirely from logical fallacies and derailing tactics.   In fact, it's so rare that I see an argument where one or both sides aren't doing this, that you could say arguments annoy me.  Sometimes they're downright scary.

Here's a guide that will help people recognize derailing tactics, and control if and when they use them.  I'm finding it best not to participate in conversations where these are present.

Logical fallacies are a little different because there are so many, it's hard to keep track of them.  Some of them are more forgivable than others, too.  "False Premise, True Conclusion" is occasionally going to happen to even the most informed and intelligent people, because technology tends to improve the capability of science to find "facts", thus correcting the "old facts".



...also, unrelated:  I take too long to post, and get ninja'ed a lot, because of it.


Edit: forgot the link

[Neonivek]

For the most part it comes from the fact that language is very open to interpretation and often most of the arguments, even here, come from a fundamental agreement that is perceived as a disagreement.

[Xantalos]

Poe's Law, full stop.

[kaenneth]

Repeated necroposting.

[Putnam]

That is probably in my top ten longest buildups to a joke I've seen.

[Neonivek]

Quoting someone... As your post...