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21 May 2011, 8:29 am

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I annoy people sometimes because my online conversations are often in a question-answer style, ie. I ask loads of questions. I don't know why, but I find this a good way to converse. Anyone else do it that way?

Do you mind if I answer that question with another question?

(How annoying is that?)


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21 May 2011, 8:36 am

Supernova008 wrote:
I annoy people sometimes because my online conversations are often in a question-answer style, ie. I ask loads of questions. I don't know why, but I find this a good way to converse. Anyone else do it that way?


I annoyed people in highschool because my conversational style was either 1) I was giving monologues or 2) I was asking questions. There was no in-between.

(I'm sure there were other complications.)



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21 May 2011, 9:11 am

I remember I joined a Sony video camera forum and I told everyone that Sony video cameras were defective because the camera makes video that flickers. Needless to say I got flamed and was called an idiot and i was called Rainman.



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21 May 2011, 5:52 pm

tomboy4good wrote:
<~~~Annoying & irritating both in RL & online. :oops:

Ditto. :cry:

I try to not become an irritant, but when I start talking about things that are of interest to me, I think it starts becoming a problem.

If I try to fit in by going along with the topics of conversation others want to talk about, it doesn't go well.

Add in a compulsive need to be "right" about everything (I'm still working on it), and sooner or later I become an irritant.



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21 May 2011, 5:54 pm

tomboy4good wrote:
<~~~Annoying & irritating both in RL & online. :oops:

Ditto. :cry:

I try to not become an irritant, but when I start talking about things that are of interest to me, I think it starts becoming a problem.

If I try to fit in by going along with the topics of conversation others want to talk about, it doesn't go well.

Add in a compulsive need to be "right" about everything (I'm still working on it), and sooner or later I become an irritant.



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21 May 2011, 7:26 pm

Supernova008 wrote:
I annoy people sometimes because my online conversations are often in a question-answer style, ie. I ask loads of questions. I don't know why, but I find this a good way to converse. Anyone else do it that way?



Yes and that is why I am too afraid to ask questions these days.



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21 May 2011, 7:31 pm

I recently started a multipage flame war on another forum with what I thought was an innocent question.



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21 May 2011, 8:51 pm

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I recently started a multipage flame war on another forum with what I thought was an innocent question.



Ohhh what happened. What was the question and what flames broke out?



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21 May 2011, 9:11 pm

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Verdandi wrote:
I recently started a multipage flame war on another forum with what I thought was an innocent question.



Ohhh what happened. What was the question and what flames broke out?


Oh, it was talking about how people dress in public and someone said that wearing sweatpants at the mall showed disrespect and a lack of self-esteem, so I asked how one could read someone's mind based on what they're wearing, and things got pretty heated, with multiple citations about self-esteem and the like.

I think I also caused strife when I said I don't care about other people in the mall.

Anyway, I had my intelligence insulted some, and was told I wasn't really reading the posts. It's possible I misread things as directed at me because they happened to be answering questions I'd asked.



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21 May 2011, 9:11 pm

There are some people who find me annoying here and than there are others who enjoy reading my posts. :cool:


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23 May 2011, 11:42 am

tomboy4good wrote:
<~~~Annoying & irritating both in RL & online. :oops:


I guess I should elaborate. I ask too many questions. I don't automatically understand something that I am assumed to know (I think it's an NT thing). It makes people mad that they have to stop & explain things to me. Happens more often in RL, but it can happen online too. I also tend to talk about stuff I know ad nauseum vs trying to talk about stuff I am uncomfortable discussing or know little about...small talk for instance.


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23 May 2011, 1:53 pm

i have been thrown out of my literature, poetry, city explorer forums
they found me boring and dull


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