Stuff that bugs me about WP

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I'm a member of a lot of forums, so I've been around the block a few times.
A couple of things about WP really bug me.

One is so many unreadable usernames, like "degnortignab" or whatever unreadable unpronounceable name. Maybe it's the name of the users favorite character in something I never heard of, who knows? On top of that are constantly changing avatars.

I mean how do these people expect to be recognizable?

Second is all the overly long mega-wordy posts. Giant blocks of text. Who are they expecting to sift through all that?

Rant concluded.

You must be talking about all the Korean spammers. Their names seem like random combinations of letters. I think most legitimate users' names are somewhat recognizable.

Yeah, I agree with you about those super-long posts. As soon as I open a thread and see such an OP, I just close it. I notice such posts usually get very few responses. So I believe other people also don't like reading those mega-wordy posts. But I didn't know it was a WP thing.

I can often be guilty of making a very long reply to someone.

It's hard to believe but it's usually not my intention!

But a reply of mine to someone's thread topic, or post within that thread, will sometimes turn out to be a long one because there's a lot I feel I want to say to the person, especially if the matter they are discussing is a complicated one, and if I'm hoping something in my life-experience might help, if I share it.

I usually go by the usernames people have, I've been on here long enough to not learn the avatars. I used to change mine rather frequently myself.

I can sometimes write mega-long replies. I think it's one characteristic of autism, or MY autism, at least, not to be able to easily tell what information to include or omit. I did the same thing as a kid; I'd have to tell every minute detail of a story because I didn't know what would be important to the person hearing it, or what they might know already.
Oddly, I do tend to skip long posts, and I try to keep mine short. I usually go back and delete a bunch of stuff before I post my reply.

I can relate to that, jimmyboy. With me too, I think it's that I tend to include more detail than is probably necessary. I'm really bad at keeping things to a minimum -- also when I talk, too. It's something I'm aware of and try to work on but I obviously fail a lot.

If I see someone else's long reply, I will actually read most of it if:

1. It's broken up into bite-sized paragraphs -- I'm a big fan of paragraphs. I might even make it all the way through reading someone's long post if it's well paced that way.

2. The topic is compelling or urgent and I feel for the person and want to read it all so that maybe I can offer something that might help.

But if it's one of those walls of solid text a mile long with no paragraph breaks, then even I tend to skip over it.

No I'm not talking about the Korean spammer(s). While some members usernames are most likely taken out of some genre they like, instead of just random letters, they are still basically unintelligible....as compared to any other of many forums I'm a member of.

Everyone please take into consideration that I am in a very testy mood.

I love this forum and its members a lot.

I totally relate to the annoyance at the unintelligible names, Ezra. I find that on other forums too. I like names that could at least be spoken even if I never actually speak them anywhere but inside my mind.

A name like snfrl2qr irritates me more than a name like furlgee, for example (using made-up names). With "furlgee" I kind of of start saying to myself "Oh look there's furlgee, I always read her posts!"

But I don't know what to think in my head when I see snfrl2qr.

Yeah, I agree with jk1, in that it seems that only the spammers have the unintelligible names. I think most of the "legit" names on WP are quite clever----I just wish people would capitalize the first letter of each word; but, some people like to write in all lower-case letters.

I'm afraid I've been guilty of the "Wall-of-Words" posts. My reasoning is the same as everybody else's----and, that I try not to do it. Oftentimes, I will read someone else's----but, of course, only if I find it interesting (as with ALL posts)----but, I agree with it needing to be broken-up, into paragraphs.

As for the "constantly changing avatars"..... I'm getting used to it. It used to be a bit distressing, really, though.

I'm more disturbed by the condition of the coding, on this site, and the numerous spams----it's disturbing because there is such an easy solution. I've been a member at a few other forum sites, as well, but THIS is like nothing I've ever seen; and, suggestions are made, all-the-time, about making it so people's first few posts have to be approved by the Mods, for instance, but nothing ever gets done, about it.

Edit: Oh, you just made a post saying you mean different user names, from the spammers.

Also, I agree with that if I can, at least, pronounce them, that's good.

Yeah, I prefer names that I can pronounce in my head. So much so that I avoid books with French characters because my French is so bad I'm never sure about pronounciation.

At best I just scan long posts. I even more dislike long paragraphs. But, I respect the writer's need to express him/her self however they need too.

I hope your testy mood soon lightens so that you can better enjoy the day.

Mine used to be one of the avatars from the site you could choose from but as far as I see they've removed that It just randomly disappeared when I changed my profile (but not my avatar), so I put it as a squirrel because why not?

I don't like when people have the default grey silhouette one (the default one) because I recognize people by their avatar (so it also bothers me when people do keep changing it because I can't keep track) and there are so many people with the default that it's hard to know who is who.

Not that I have a problem with the people, just something that randomly bothers me

I love WP and I enjoy reading people's long posts. However the minor thing that bugs me about WP is the boring posts that are often in the Random Discussion feed like "what are you eating"...."what time is it?"....that constantly show up on the top and in my "recent posts" tab.

I love WP and I enjoy reading people's long posts. However the minor thing that bugs me about WP is the boring posts that are often in the Random Discussion feed like "what are you eating"...."what time is it?"....that constantly show up on the top and in my "recent posts" tab.

Well, there's something for everybody.

I don't mind long posts, depending on what they're about. Sometimes I get bored when too many in-laws are mentioned, like ''my sister-in-law.....my mother-in-law.....my brother-in-law.....'' I just get lost with all these in-laws. And that's not just online, it's anywhere I go. Unless I know somebody's extended family, I get confused when people start talking about their wife's brother's nephew's uncle's sister-in-law. I'm like ''OK, you've lost me now.''
Also I get a bit bored when the post is about homeless and stuff like that. I prefer to read about Aspies with more tidy, mundane lives, like mine.

Also another thing what annoys me on WP is when people relate any little thing to being an Aspie. Like ''I drive a blue car - is this more common in Aspies?''
Or some Aspie people who think all NT lives are the same, and all NTs get good grades, find brilliant jobs, move out of their parent's house by 18, get married, have kids, and spend all their whole spare time socializing and never want time on their own. Personally speaking, very few NTs that I know have that lifestyle - and I know a lot of NTs.
And then there's the contradiction, where suddenly it all swings around and a member is saying ''NTs usually end up in dead-end jobs because they spent their whole education lives socializing and not caring too much for studying or grades, not like us Aspies who go to university and study hard and get good jobs - yay go Aspies!''

Like WTF?

I drive a blue car It's my dad's. My mum's is also blue.

But I agree entirely, too many made up links. Some have some truth to them, but that's because it's linked to core parts of autism. Or things shown true but it's debated as to why - large bodies of water. Most are just random ideas people have.