Tally: Forum Annoyances II - Chess Forums - Page 11

artfizz · 2009-03-18T10:27:24-07:00

What do you consider the most annoying aspect of the forums? (Either when READING the forums or CREATING the forums) 1. The same boring, unimaginative, repetitive topics continually recur. 2. SEARCH facilities are so poor that it’s next-to-impossible to find anything. 3. There is no

MyCowsCanFly

Sep 1, 2010

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#201

Editing a previous comment so it appears you can predict the future.

goldendog

Sep 1, 2010

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#202

goldendog wrote:

I've never done that.

MyCowsCanFly

Sep 1, 2010

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#203

[USING THE COMMENT DELETED LINE FOR REASONS OTHER THAN HUMOR]

NM ozzie_c_cobblepot

Sep 1, 2010

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#204

theoreticalboy wrote:

I meant that people respond in earnest to things that were obviously jokes. It was also a set-up for my next point

Also, in my experience, people who say sarcasm is the lowest form of humour are usually too dense to grasp it in most situations.

Are you calling my mom dense? That's not very nice.

chessroboto

Sep 1, 2010

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#205

Here we go.

theoreticalboy

Sep 1, 2010

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#206

ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:

theoreticalboy wrote:

I meant that people respond in earnest to things that were obviously jokes. It was also a set-up for my next point

Also, in my experience, people who say sarcasm is the lowest form of humour are usually too dense to grasp it in most situations.

Are you calling my mom dense? That's not very nice.

Nah, just people I've known. I'm from a disproportinately stupid area of the globe, so naturally my experience need not accord with that of anyone else...

NM ozzie_c_cobblepot

Sep 1, 2010

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#207

Perhaps this is the difference between raising kids/parenting and what some people consider "the real world".

In other words, it's a very bad idea to teach sarcasm humor to super young kids.

bigpoison

Sep 2, 2010

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#208

ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:

I was taught that sarcasm is the lowest form of humour.

Were you sleeping in Dr. Johnson's class or something? The pun is the lowest form of humor.

AndTheLittleOneSaid

Sep 2, 2010

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#209

bigpoison wrote:

ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:

I was taught that sarcasm is the lowest form of humour.

Were you sleeping in Dr. Johnson's class or something? The pun is the lowest form of humor.

There are levels of humour?? What's at the top?

TheGrobe

Sep 2, 2010

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#210

AndTheLittleOneSaid wrote:

bigpoison wrote:

ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:

I was taught that sarcasm is the lowest form of humour.

Were you sleeping in Dr. Johnson's class or something? The pun is the lowest form of humor.

There are levels of humour?? What's at the top?

Slapstick.

bigpoison

Sep 2, 2010

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#211

AndTheLittleOneSaid wrote:

bigpoison wrote:

ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:

I was taught that sarcasm is the lowest form of humour.

Were you sleeping in Dr. Johnson's class or something? The pun is the lowest form of humor.

There are levels of humour?? What's at the top?

Shoot, I missed that class! It must be brief, though.

theoreticalboy

Sep 2, 2010

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#212

I believe the zinger is the highest form?

trysts

Sep 2, 2010

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#213

Self-reflection is, in my opinion, the highest form of humour. Second is Dom DeLuise falling down the steps.

theoreticalboy

Sep 2, 2010

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#214

Unfortunately when I engage in self-reflection, it inevitably devolves into wanton toilet humour (which I believe is only #6).

theoreticalboy

Sep 2, 2010

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#215

That's pretty funny, because I just had a conversation with a co-worker about sorting through existential crises in the bathroom, literally two minutes ago. I have great esteem for the bathroom.

artfizz

Sep 2, 2010

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#216

Thanks for your input. Here's a summary of the annoyances identified so far ...

1	The same boring, unimaginative, repetitive topics continually recur.
2	SEARCH facilities are so poor that it’s next-to-impossible to find anything.
3	There is no facility to reference individual posts.
4	Too many contributors post inane comments such as “LOL”, “First!”, “me 2” or “Easy” (especially in the Daily Puzzles).
5	Some members are so opinionated in their expressed views – almost to the point of fanaticism.
6	Lack of a good survey tool	xMenace
7	Lack of a decent IGNORE filter	farbror
8	Lack of SPAM hygene from moderators	BorqQueen
9	Excessive censorship	amac7079
10	People posting in their own forums to "bump" them and keep them alive long after they would have died out naturally	Evil_Homer
11	People starting irrelevant forum topics	Evil_Homer
12	Quoting doesn't work very well {for nesting, breaking a post into parts, or for copying URLs or images}	artfizz
13	Snobs / Elistism	Turp
14	Embedded youtube videos	xMenace
15	People who post puzzles that aren't puzzles. There can be a number of things wrong with them: -- no solution coded in the puzzle -- no unique solution -- the solution moves aren't even good moves	Loomis
16	If the OP deletes his or her original post or closes his or her account, all of the subsequent discussion is lost [NOW FIXED]	artfizz
17	Too many people posting just to create drama needlessly, and to hear themselves talk.	Spiffe
18	URLs (i.e. links) disappear during submission or re-editing.	artfizz
19	Table creation, update & quoting is poorly supported.	artfizz
20	If someone deletes his or her post from the MIDDLE of a discussion, there is no record of it (except [COMMENT DELETED]) and subsequent posts get renumbered and may no longer make sense.	artfizz
21	If you click back through a topic in the middle of creating a post, everything that you have written gets thrown away.	artfizz
22	The titles of forum topics cannot be subsequently corrected or changed. [ACTUALLY THEY CAN – but the URL is not changed].
23	Topic threads that deal with forum management more than chess	JetSetter
24	No facility to restrict search to topic titles	artfizz
25	No individual post tracking: you can't find all of the individual posts made by a particular person (yourself or anyone else), nor do you get alerted when they post something (other than when they create a new topic).	artfizz
26	Rudeness	kajsa
27	Pedantic correction of spelling, grammar, etc. without regard to legitimate alternatives nor to the effort made by those whose first language is not English.	purcellneil
28	Plagiarism: people who post a puzzle without mentioning the author, or a game without mentioning the players.	scarjo
29	People who whine about people being ignorant and in doing that are ignorant themselves, going in some sort of perpetual motion with others	styxtwo
30	There no mechanism for marking threads as intended to be humourous/humorous, ironical, sarcastic, satirical, parody, burlesque, exaggerated or double entendre.	artfizz
31	The lack of the smiley (though these can be imported as images from yahoo etc.)	LoneWolfEburg
32	Generic topic titles e.g. "Idea".	artfizz
33	Not being able to quote multiple people in one post.	CerebralAssassin
34	Re-using (thread bumping of) ancient threads instead of just making a new one	CerebralAssassin
35	Excessive quoting of quotes	kramakintews
36	When an oft-repeated topic comes up, it gets dismissed by someone immediately, referring them to the archives. (I think making new threads is just fine. The ones who are sick of it can ignore it, or have fun with it.)	trysts
37	Someone creating a forum in which all the first 20 posts are his.	Reb
38	Forum viewer's weak display capability of divergent strands of discussion.	artfizz
39	Using the forum to play a game of chess: a feature already provided perfectly well by other parts of the site.	Loomis
40	Referring to another chess.com member in a disparaging way.	artfizz
41	Hijacking threads	TheGrobe
42	Deliberate misquoting	artfizz
43	Text should wrap around pictures	wormrose
44	People posting with a ridiculous font size	pdela
45	HUGE PHOTOS	pdela
46	Comment without words, just dots	pdela
47	Lazy people using vista image as their avatar	pdela
48	Quoting the freakin' dictionary	Tonydal
49	When a mod decides to lock a thread, an explanation from the moderator should be mandatory.	Schachgeek
50	People mentioning your name in vain	pdela
51	Representing just to gloss yourself and try to sound hip (oops)	kramakintews
52	Incoherent posts	kramakintews
53	Posts that seem to be about one thing (e.g where cow's milk is stored) but are actually about an udder.	artfizz
54	Too many members deliberately ignoring irony. (They respond in earnest to things that were obviously jokes).	theoreticalboy
55	Members who just prowl the boards to make fun of others, participate in thread-jacks, and never contribute any comment that might help others understand/appreciate chess better.	theoreticalboy
56	Blabbing about how a topic is useless and dumb	onetwentysix
57	Advertising/spamming	onetwentysix
58	Editing a previous comment so it appears you can predict the future.	MyCowsCanFly
59	[USING THE COMMENT DELETED LINE FOR REASONS OTHER THAN HUMOR] .	MyCowsCanFly

theoreticalboy

Sep 2, 2010

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#217

Can I change "sarcasm" to "irony?" Considering what others have said, I think the latter word more adequately reflects what I meant.

artfizz

Sep 2, 2010

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#218

theoreticalboy wrote: Can I change "sarcasm" to "irony?" Considering what others have said, I think the latter word more adequately reflects what I meant.

March Hare: …Then you should say what you mean.
Alice: I do; at least - at least I mean what I say -- that's the same thing, you know.
Hatter: Not the same thing a bit! Why, you might just as well say that, 'I see what I eat' is the same as 'I eat what I see'!
March Hare: You might just as well say, that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!
The Dormouse: You might just as well say, that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!

MontyII

Sep 2, 2010

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#219

theoreticalboy wrote:

That's pretty funny, because I just had a conversation with a co-worker about sorting through existential crises in the bathroom, literally two minutes ago. I have great esteem for the bathroom.

I sometimes have steam in the bathroom as well.

MyCowsCanFly

Sep 2, 2010

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#220

Once a topic is locked, you can't remove it from your list of tracked topics.