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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by 73Corvette
1. When someone goes to the last page of a 3 page thread and makes a post, based on some of the previous post, (that has no relevance) on the question or comment of the OP's original post.

2. When someone offers unsolicited negative, rude, demeaning comments or opinions in the OP's thread.

3. When somebody posts on a thread that they obviously have NOT read.

4. When someone gets bent out of shape, because you disagree.

5. When someone gives incorrect facts or information that could lead to damage, injury, or even death.

6. When someone makes a list of things that bugs them about this forum.

Feel free to add to this thread...

1. If it's relevant

2. If your not flaming



3. If you've read it


4. If your not angry, because you disagree

5. If you have your FACTS straight

6. and you have some ridiculous pet peeve that you feel the need to vent about, like I have...

Yes, I am probably guilty of one or more of these pet peeves, so I am irritated by myself, which you have no control over... do I need professional help?
Pet Peeve #7. When people excessively quote previous posts
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When you offer information/ help to a problem and the OP never comes back to the thread.

When someone finds a post that is 8 years old and revives it.

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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 73Corvette
1. When someone goes to the last page of a 3 page thread and makes a post, based on some of the previous post, (that has no relevance) on the question or comment of the OP's original post.

2. When someone offers unsolicited negative, rude, demeaning comments or opinions in the OP's thread.

3. When somebody posts on a thread that they obviously have NOT read.

4. When someone gets bent out of shape, because you disagree.

5. When someone gives incorrect facts or information that could lead to damage, injury, or even death.

6. When someone makes a list of things that bugs them about this forum.

Feel free to add to this thread...

1. If it's relevant

2. If your not flaming



3. If you've read it


4. If your not angry, because you disagree

5. If you have your FACTS straight

6. and you have some ridiculous pet peeve that you feel the need to vent about, like I have...

Yes, I am probably guilty of one or more of these pet peeves, so I am irritated by myself, which you have no control over... do I need professional help?
Originally Posted by PhysicsDude55
Pet Peeve #7. When people excessively quote previous posts
Originally Posted by 73Corvette
Exactly...Don't you just hate it when someone says what you have just said!
Originally Posted by Bill Vett
When you offer information/ help to a problem and the OP never comes back to the thread.

When someone finds a post that is 8 years old and revives it.
I totally agree with everyone of you......
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 12:27 PM
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HahahahHa. This is great!
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 12:55 PM
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When someone gives a 3 paragraph response of why they are right based on information that they heard from "a buddy/the internet" and has no real world experience on the matter.
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 12:56 PM
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Speaking of relevance, what's everyone's favorite brewery? I'm typically a fan of lagunitas but the best beer I've had is chimay grand reserve.

What's this thread about again?
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill Vett

When someone finds a post that is 8 years old and revives it.
Disagree with this part. There is tons of ancient knowledge is those older posts. Questions that were answered 10 years ago constantly pop up in new posts only to be redirected back to an old post.
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Originally Posted by dbgoodwin
Speaking of relevance, what's everyone's favorite brewery? I'm typically a fan of lagunitas but the best beer I've had is chimay grand reserve.

What's this thread about again?
I've never had a chimay grand reserve but it sounds good! Oh, we bought a new big screen T.V. yesterday and the picture is great

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Originally Posted by C5Wolfe
I've never had a chimay grand reserve but it sounds good! Oh, we bought a new big screen T.V. yesterday and the picture is great
Very good indeed. You can find it at harris teeter, its like $14 for 1 pint 9oz though, so it isn't cheap.

I like revived old threads. its a neat blast from the past, and it beats rewriting an annoyed thread about which oil weight to use.
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 04:12 PM
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My pet peeve is being forced to watch a thirty second commercial in order to watch a ten second video clip.
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 04:37 PM
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My pet peeve is being forced to watch a thirty second commercial in order to watch a ten second video clip.
I would highly recommend you avoid ESPN.com then.
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Originally Posted by dbgoodwin
Speaking of relevance, what's everyone's favorite brewery? I'm typically a fan of lagunitas but the best beer I've had is chimay grand reserve.

What's this thread about again?
Yuengling, love their lager and also black & tan
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by dbgoodwin
I would highly recommend you avoid ESPN.com then.
Almost every site does it now.
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6. When someone makes a list of things that bugs them about this forum.
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#43. When someone quotes an entire previous post consisting of 14 pictures, only to add one sentence that may or may not refer to just one of those pictures.
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by dbgoodwin
Speaking of relevance, what's everyone's favorite brewery? I'm typically a fan of lagunitas but the best beer I've had is chimay grand reserve.

What's this thread about again?
I'm a Corona kind of guy, which reminds me i need to tune up the lawnmower tomorrow
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 05:51 PM
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Posting massive high resolution pictures, so that when my browser scales the picture to fit on the screen, the text is too small to read.

A multi-megabyte picture doesn't look any better than medium-sized jpeg on a computer screen.
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Originally Posted by SuperTom
Disagree with this part. There is tons of ancient knowledge is those older posts. Questions that were answered 10 years ago constantly pop up in new posts only to be redirected back to an old post.
When someone asks a question of the original poster and they haven't been on line for 5 or 6 years, just start a new thread. The rules say something about a thread over 45 days.
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Originally Posted by Bill Vett
When you offer information/ help to a problem and the OP never comes back to the thread.

When someone finds a post that is 8 years old and revives it.


Originally Posted by SuperTom
Disagree with this part. There is tons of ancient knowledge is those older posts. Questions that were answered 10 years ago constantly pop up in new posts only to be redirected back to an old post.
You're supposed to read and absorb the information, not talk to the ghosts

Originally Posted by Bill Vett
When someone asks a question of the original poster and they haven't been on line for 5 or 6 years, just start a new thread. The rules say something about a thread over 45 days.
Exactly. The rules used to address this, and zombie threads were locked... unfortunately, this is no longer the case. Mods were spending too much time running around locking zombie threads revived by noobs.

Also, requesting an update after six months or so from an active poster is not the same as replying to a 1-10-year-old thread

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#43. When someone quotes an entire previous post consisting of 14 pictures, only to add one sentence that may or may not refer to just one of those pictures.


I try to quote only the text that the poster put the with the pic, or just the pic I'm referring to when quoting pics. It's considered forum etiquette on other boards.
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