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TheBiggerFish

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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #450 on: December 28, 2015, 11:48:05 pm »

I have to say, I dislike derails that are more than within the bailiwicks of other threads...
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #451 on: December 29, 2015, 12:41:10 am »

Indeed. Can we please get back to my hatred of inferior 4chan and/or Reddit style message board software and design. It's so crappy. I wish they would switch to SMF or vBulletin.
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #452 on: December 29, 2015, 12:49:36 am »

No Bohandas because that's a pretty dumb opinion. They're both good at what they're meant to do. Reddit's lets everyone with the same opinions talk to each other and only each other, while 4chan's lets everyone direct words at any other post. And for an imageboard the whole posting images thing needs to be a key part of the functionality, instead of having to upload them elsewhere and link to them.
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #453 on: December 29, 2015, 01:09:08 am »

No Bohandas because that's a pretty dumb opinion. They're both good at what they're meant to do. Reddit's lets everyone with the same opinions talk to each other and only each other, while 4chan's lets everyone direct words at any other post. And for an imageboard the whole posting images thing needs to be a key part of the functionality, instead of having to upload them elsewhere and link to them.
Yeah.  So what it is is you don't like imageboards?
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #454 on: December 29, 2015, 07:17:01 am »

"It's only a joke, don't take them seriously!"
Yeah, why should I take them less seriously than you do? Why do you feel the need to affirm that telling jokes is so important that they're beyond criticism?
Frikkin' pc-haters. Philosophically undereducated, self-absorbed pricks. Why don't they understand that society doesn't revolve around them and their needs?
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #455 on: December 29, 2015, 07:24:31 am »

I find social media unpalatable...
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #456 on: December 29, 2015, 07:27:30 am »

"It's only a joke, don't take them seriously!"
Yeah, why should I take them less seriously than you do? Why do you feel the need to affirm that telling jokes is so important that they're beyond criticism?
Frikkin' pc-haters. Philosophically undereducated, self-absorbed pricks. Why don't they understand that society doesn't revolve around them and their needs?
Yeah man, fuck free speech.
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #457 on: December 29, 2015, 07:37:08 am »

I don't... like... like people who... overuse... ellipses...
It's, like... the stupidest... thing, y'know?
You probably... don't understand...
I'm just gonna go... and crawl under the covers...
You guys... you don't care...
[insert more angsty teenage whining]
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #458 on: December 29, 2015, 07:52:08 am »

Ellipsish is a very sophisticated and expressive language. Watch:
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[Translation: "My name is Golgo13 and I approve of this post."]
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #459 on: December 29, 2015, 07:54:46 am »

That's... that's so deep, man...
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #460 on: December 29, 2015, 07:59:58 am »

I have used (and am using) a number of Forum softwares and variations.  All have advantages and disadvantages, or at least a lack of features that another has proved to be so useful.  At least as configured by their own respective administrators (I imagine most are expandable with options)

SMF is clean and happy, by the defaults Toady has configured and with several of the alternative layouts that I've seen but not tried, but I don't like its equivalent of the 'Watch thread' feature that is more useful on other systems. Also the ability to upload (size-limited) attachments/images-for-inline is missing, at least on the Bay12 implementation.  But never mind, we have DFFD for anything Relevent and various (mostly) easily available choices of things like TinyPic for anything that isn't.

ProBoards(/FreeForum) is a little uglier (although fully configurable) in appearance, but does have a sort-of-workable "Watch thread", with both Bookmarking (manual watch-thread, regardless of whether you PTWed) and Participated (automatically what you did contribute to).  Except for an annoying tendency to forget the 'read through to' points in a thread that is idle for a long time and then added to (i.e. sometimes even reverting the link to 'New' message staging point back to the start, well before one's own latest contribution).  It's good with forum-uploaded files, though.

One phpBB example that I use seems to be being run very minimally.  There's not even a [spoiler] tag implemented and appears to not even have any "Show new replies to your posts" equivalent (luckily, it's low volume, so I can manually check all sub-boards for new/with-new-posts topics) but it is again clean in design, perhaps due to the same minimality.  Another phpBB example does seem to have a fuller compliment, but is also far, far busier and harder to keep track of.  Meanwhile both lack a mechanism for Personal Messages (the web-game they serve, within which is already a player2player messaging system, so it isn't a great loss) but in one of those, particularly, forumIDs link directly to player-pages (which fails if you were lurking without logging in) which seems to deliberately obfuscate the way to check for "last posts from a person" without going doing a manual search by several more clicks.

I've not used (and, even then, mostly just browsed) chan-type boards/imageboards in a long time, and (while I'm not particularly aiming to be unanonymous, behind my pseudonym, here) the propensity of "anons" and obviously long-established in-jokes among the community leaves me feeling disassociated and not keen to participate myself, nor lurk around until I would be keen.

Meanwhile, I'm perfectly happy to provide anonIP (ironically, to some extent less anonymous, I know) contributions to Wikis, including the main one.  (Though the last thing I added was removed within an hour by a long-term user that I later found had a number of 3RR violations/queries to her name.  And the new issue I'd added clarification for ended up being debated in the Talk page several days later, needing clarification similar to my original contribution...  Looks like I found one of the bad editors...  Never mind; it's been discussed now.  I'm not bitter! ;) )

I should rather like the various Reddit-style forums (and post-article commentary sections, on various news/blog post sites).  Their tree-like threading of topics is reminiscent of Usenet threading, but I haven't partaken in that kind myself.  For one reason or other, I have a dislike for 'like/dislike' ranking, though (seen upon that platform and elsewhere).  I'm very reliant upon other people's judgement/prejudice/stacking-the-system behaviour, and I don't think I always trust them as much as I ought to.


The big thing is that the virtual world is a much bigger place, these days.  I grew up with the mindset that I would read every message on the very first BBS I was a member of (and, frankly, the capability to do that).  I had to moderate that feeling when Usenet became available (I must admit I tried... and it was before the Eternal September, WebTV, GoogleGroups, etc... but I also resisted the temptation to use the Kibo approach to spreading my wings) and henceforth stuck to a good half-dozen or more key groups to be active in, and a dozen or so more that I'd mostly just lurk in.

I currently can't even read all the (new) messages on Bay12, as I'd ideally like to (with the time), never mind that the easiest mechanism for keeping up with 'last read post in an unPTWed thread' (or, especially, a contributed-to-thread where you've still a 'gap' to read through, betwixt the old last-read-post and the point at which one does post) is to create a new tab or save the "...;last_msg=6698073" URL to a text file, to resume at that point.  Another, less active, forum I'm on has a large amount of 'back-catalogue' threads (a much smaller community, but created a full year prior to my arrival), including the 'general chat' one that I've a feeling a lot of the socialising goes on in, that I've just not been able to make a dent in reading through.  This bothers me, where I'm sure it wouldn't bother others.

TL;DR; for the last bit, at least: The Internet habit that annoys me is that it's got too much stuff on it!  Stop it, Internet!  You're growing beyond my ability to read all of you!  I need to find the Read-Write hole and cover it up so that it's Read-Only for a while, so I can catch up...

(Case in point: "Warning - while you were typing 6 new replies have been posted.")
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #461 on: December 29, 2015, 10:15:43 am »

"SMF Bookmarker" seems like a pretty neat browser plugin.
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #462 on: December 29, 2015, 07:37:39 pm »

Why don't they understand that society doesn't revolve around them and their needs?
Welp, looks like we've got the entire internet summed up. GG let's turn it all off.
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #463 on: December 29, 2015, 07:46:30 pm »

"It's only a joke, don't take them seriously!"
Yeah, why should I take them less seriously than you do? Why do you feel the need to affirm that telling jokes is so important that they're beyond criticism?
Frikkin' pc-haters. Philosophically undereducated, self-absorbed pricks. Why don't they understand that society doesn't revolve around them and their needs?
Yeah man, fuck free speech.
This is an excellent example of an annoying Internet habit: people not understanding what the concept of “free speech” is.

“Free speech” doesn’t mean “speech you can’t cricitize”, and it doesn’t mean “private parties can’t restrict access to private resources based on the content of speech”.
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Re: Internet habits which annoy you.
« Reply #464 on: December 29, 2015, 07:51:43 pm »

PTW.
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