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[Neonivek]

Quoting someone... As your post...

[Putnam]

Double posting and changing what people say in quotes.

[McDonald]

I don't like this video.

y u watch it then

Or:

This song is rather bad.

let's see u do better

[Morrigi]

Paid shills, shilling. Also organized shitposting, for free.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

THEY DO IT FOR FREE!

[Guardian G.I.]

Paid shills, shilling. Also organized shitposting, for free.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

THEY DO IT FOR FREE!

Also, labelling people who disagree with your view "shills", as well as paranoid search for paid shills where there are clearly none.

If Internet had existed in America during the times of McCarthy, many political discussions would look not unlike today's Reddit and its international news section.

[Tawa]

Oh god, I haaaaaaaate it when people end sentences with tildes.

TILDES ARE NOT EXCLAMATION POINTS, GUYS.

[Darvi]

It's alright with moderation. It's when people do it endlessly in an effort to appear "cute" or "endearing" that I want to ram a rusty nail in their jugular.

[Tawa]

No.

The nail must be rammed through the first time.

If nails are not available, substitute by writing a reply with a single, common letter shifted over a key.

[Lyeos]

Incessantly posting about your fandom where it doesn't belong is probably in here somewhere, but oh well.

And yes.
Stop with the flippin' tildes.
It makes me want to scratch my eyeballs out.

[Ai Shizuka]

Your/you're, their/there/they're.
Somehow it seems more common in english native speakers. Not sure why, but I hate it in any case.

Someone posts 12 huge images and idiots keep quoting the entire wall of images, adding something like "lol" or "nice" at the end.

Incomplete thread titles used as baits. Like "The most common misconceptions about..." or "Need help with this serious issue".
Guess what? I'm going to skip your thread entirely, even if there's the cure for cancer and ebola inside.

[Slayerhero90]

No.

The nail must be rammed through the first time.

If nails are not available, substitute by writing a reply with a single, common letter shifted over a key.

The tildes has uses of which I happen to love and yet have yet to have employed.

It is particularly effective in altering the perceived tone of one's words, as demonstrated in the following example:

"You're a fuckwit and I'd like to have nothing to do with you, darling."
"You're a fuckwit and I'd like to have nothing to do with you, darling~"

The first instance maintains a tone of someone trying to keep up a formal tone with the "darling" while simultaneous putting their issue with the recipient of the insult bluntly.
The second's tone is significantly happier and additionally arrogant in the way that they don't even put on a tone of distaste with their insult, likely considering it barely worth their time to even bother insulting the recipient. It's also a hell of a lot creepier.

Let's examine a non-insulting example. A question, this time.

"Did you fix it yet?"
"Did you fix it yet?~"

The first one is very neutral in tone. Nothing odd about it.
The second one is, again, happier sounding, in a somewhat demeaning way, and this time, the way the tilde modulates the accenting of the sentence put more emphasis on the thing being fixed, making the person fixing it appear far less important. Again, significantly creepier, and in this case, uncomfortably personal in tone.

An imperative sentence, now.

"Do it, already."
"Do it, already~"

The first is blatantly impatient.
The second has a vastly different tone, one of the person giving the command egging the recipient on when the recipient obviously doesn't want to do it. Alternatively, it sounds like the commander has nothing to lose from the recipient carrying out the action while the recipient does. Not so much creepy as it is smug.

Before we move on to the final example, you said that tildes are not exclamation points, and I agree wholeheartedly with that. Tildes are meant to replace periods. Therefore, one can have an exclamation point followed by a tilde. This has been the case for a while now.

"I love it!"
"I love it!~"

The tilde does something abnormal to the other tilde-sentences here. Here, it makes more sincere and genuine the sentence, as well as making it more personal, adding an underlayer of the recipient being greatly thanked for their involvement in the scenario.

I'd like to finish by saying that true linguists embrace the changes to languages made over time, as language is an evolving creature, as majestic as it need be to fit the time.
That is all, darlings~

[SalmonGod]

Pretty much any use of the term TLDR.

[Arx]

Am I the only one who thinks it's easier to parse like this~?

Much use of tildes irritates me a bit too, but only because they don't register as punctuation unless I concentrate, and if I want to concentrate on what I'm reading I'll go read Paradise Lost instead of Bay12.

[Tawa]

-slayerhero tries to convince me that using tildes as end punctuation is ok-

[note: I's replaced with O's to prove a point]
O stoll thunk that toldes are annoyong.

O mean, really, we have regular punctuatoon for a reason. Ot's loke what O'm doong here, swappong out one thong for another for no real reason. Ot's not endearong, ot's not cute, ot changes the meanong of the sentence on a way that you could accomplosh through already set manners. Ot's an awful lot ugloer, too.

[nenjin]

Some people seem to think it's kawaii. All it really tells me is how much they like kawaii. After more than 1 sentence worth of it, I start to find it annoying.