Online Behaviour - Pet Peeves

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Making a online only focused thread since I have so much to unpack but not clog up other threads.

- My biggest gripe Is when folk seem to think they can be hostile as their intro to me and play off as "How things work". But If I don't tolerant any of It suddenly I'm the problem and say stuff that EVEN worse than before.

- Redditors/Youtubers that have nothing to say beyond lashing out at the 9070xt/7900xtx makes the RTX 5080 look like a joke. It fun they claim how bad AMD's ray tracing Is, Yet the PS5 shows other wise with It RDNA 2 GPU.

"I'm not reading allat"

When you keep your OP short and sweet but someone still can't be bothered to read it before posting, and they ask you a question that you'd already covered in your OP. Then when you point it out, they say "sorry, TL;RD, short attention span".

I have a short attention span and can't read long posts unless it's in a private conversation or if I'm reeeally interested, but attention span short enough to be unable to read an OP that's literally shorter than this post (for a non-dyslexic person) isn't really a convincing excuse and is just lazy I think.

I've had ones that expect me to explain something they could've looked up themslves, Like "What a ER4XR?". If I do explain away I never get a reply back making me question why they even bothered replying.

Sites where rules are only applied on a case by case basis. So for instance rule number 1 says ''no personal attacks'', which is a perfectly fair rule and not very difficult to understand or follow but some users get away with posting personal attacks unprovoked even when you report them, while other users get their posts edited or removed for hardly nothing except that they had very slightly posted off-topic. I mean I get that it's annoying when threads go off-topic but if I were a mod I would be more on personal attack patrol than one person slightly going off-topic. Even some users get away with going very off-topic with a personal attack, and you report it to the mods and they do nothing, simply because this particular user is a favourite of theirs and can do no wrong. And as an ADHDer this sort of unfairness just gets to you.

Not talking about this site, just in general that I have seen happen elsewhere. Pettiness like that on other sites just makes me glad to be here where things seem more laid-back and rules are just common sense and everybody's happy.

At that point It not even selective It them just ignoring their own rules while failing to get no one gonna stay in such spaces. HydrogenAudio & audio science review are utter trash because your either ghosted or get some hostile non-reply. Like the one I got on ASR where someone took deep offence towards me pointing out Lossless video would be 320 ~ 1600mbit, Ended up insta banned by a very annoying mod.

Sometimes when I make a comment and I have to edit it because I noticed I misspelled a word or left out an important word by accident. Then it will tell others that the OP was edited, and people think that's incredibly bad for some reason.

And then there are people who use about 10 emojis as a post. For example there's a video of cute cats and someone always posts "OMG SO CUTE

I use emojis too, but I only use one or two occasionally. I know other people really hate them so I have to be careful.

On Facebook someone makes an "inspirational" post and someone else always comments "Amen", even when it was a secular message. The epidemic of AI slop isn't helping either.

Generally it's good online manners to explain the edit for example

Edit: grammar

Or if you need to add context to the post, include it in an edit. Eg

Edit: tysm for so many likes

That on its own I'd see as a fair question unless it was understood to be a very specialist discussion. I don't know what all those alpha-numerical strings in the OP here mean, except that I think from the context they're to do with video games. I could have looked them up but on a non-specialist discussion such as this it makes me want to ignore the thread if there's been no attempt to put the reader in the picture.

I see it a lot where people post obscure things or just a URL to an article or to a video without saying anything themselves. I'm not saying it's always absolutely wrong, but anybody who wants to attract interest in what they have to say would do well to say something that the expected audience is likely to understand.


I'd agree that's often bad etiquette, to ask a question and then never come back.

I find reading news articles very difficult, as I never get what it's trying to say. I'd rather someone just explain it to me like I'm five, otherwise I won't get it.

I also don't tend to watch YouTube videos I'm not interested in. I find it odd when people "speak video", where they post a video to answer a question, especially if it's a song. I'm not going to listen to a song I probably don't even like to get inside your head. Instead just tell me what you're thinking.

AI generated movie trailers where they don't even bother putting "fan made" or "concept" in the title.

Online video essays where they leave you with more questions than answers