I DID NOT REALIZE I WAS SO EASILY ANNOYED.
→ People who are incoherent when asking for help. Yeah, I'd love to help you if I could understand what you're trying to say. "What is the green image underneath my postcount?" is a good question. "wats wth the pic in my post?" is NOT.
→ People who insist I'm one of their good forum friends when, in reality, they sent me one PM saying "hi" and submitted a friend request. I accept because it's less effort than rejecting everyone and I don't want to alienate anyone. THAT DOES NOT MAKE US BFFs.
→ People with entitlement issues. No, you don't deserve the right to be a mod. I don't even know you. I've never seen you before today. You can't read the FAQ. Stop asking me. And don't go ask someone else, either; they're going to link you to the same FAQ entry I did if they're even nice enough to do that.
→ On that note, people who can't read the FAQ. Or use the search function. Or take the time to sift through the forum to make sure they aren't making a redundant thread. This is especially annoying when coupled with my first point. Maybe it's because I'm the kind of person who hates looking stupid so I try everything possible to figure it out for myself before asking something but... come on. Those resources are there for a reason.
→ Suck-ups. Yeaaah... I can tell who you are easily. I'm just too nice to call you out on it. Suck-ups aren't all bad though. A fair few have ended up becoming friends of mine down the road but most are just kind of sad.
→ Porn spammers, etc. We don't have this problem like... ever, now that we've restricted images and URLs to those with 15+ posts. But even so, why waste both your time and mine? No I don't enjoy looking at shock images while I go in to delete your posts. Do you enjoy looking at them as you post? Don't you have better things to do in your spare time??
→ Impersonations. Even if they're bad ones. :( Someone signed up here with the name Liqhtninq or something recently. I got SO many PMs from people asking why I was PMing them links to questionable sites. I still get them even though I banned the person within a day. It was months ago.
→ People who aren't all that smart. Yeah, you know that Liqhtninq person who PM'd you? The one with the struckout, plain name? Why are you PMing Lightning with the bold, italic, red name to whine about it months later? Isn't it obvious I'm not that person??
→ People who, upon having their thread closed, go right ahead and make it again with no edits. Or PM me and everyone else on the staff to insist it be opened again. No. Go away.
→ Mini-mods. No, you don't look cool when you scold people. It just bothers my mods and everyone else on staff when they basically have to quote/repeat you in order to close the thread. It doesn't help your chances of being modded, either. If anything, we remember you for being annoying, not knowledgeable. Knowledgeable people report and go on their way instead of cluttering up the thread with what's basically spam.
→ People who think being different and edgy with a hint of troll is cool. No, you don't look cool when you're cutting down members who don't know better or who are stating an opinion. You don't look smarter; you just look like an inconsiderate jerk. (This especially bothers me when the people doing this don't know what they're talking about either. Ugggh.)
→ People who paraphrase (or outright copy from) Wikipedia in their posts to seem smart. Usually it's just irrelevant to the topic and it makes everyone think you're pretentious. They won't read your posts. :'(
→ When someone changes their signature/avatar all the time. It doesn't bug me as much now because I actually haven't had avatars/signatures turned on permanently for a month now but... it's very disorienting. I used to (and probably will again once I turn them back on) associate people with their theme so when it changes often, I get confused. It's double confusing when you couple it with...
→ PEOPLE WHO CHANGE THEIR NAMES EVERY SINGLE CHANCE THEY GET. Augh, no you don't need to change on the exact day that your name change comes. Can't you pick a name and stick to it? (I hate when that one group of like 20 people changes their name at the same time; like half the staff are different and it confuses me so much.)
→ People who use smilies all over the place. I use too many. If you use more than me, they're probably out of place and distracting me from reading your message.
→ Posts that haven't been proofread. I don't mind if there's a typo or two in a long or intelligent post--so long as it doesn't really affect my ability to read it, that's fine. But when you post a one-liner and can't take the time to glance over it for half a second to make sure it, you know, makes sense? I don't like you.
→ Getting PMs from people asking to do something... and then half an hour later getting the same PM... and then 20 minutes later getting a "WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME" PM... and then finally coming home a few hours later to like 6 PMs from the same person. It's not as bad when I actually am ignoring someone (a rarity) but... when I haven't even been online the whole time? Is it really necessary? If it's so urgent, why aren't you bugging someone who is online?
→ Whoever reads this and doesn't take the hint. >:| I swear to god if any of you PM me with "wats wth the pic in my post?" I'll smack you. XD
→ LOSERS WHO SPEND THEIR LUNCH BREAK TYPING UP A POST ABOUT WHO/WHAT ANNOYS THEM ON FORUMS. Dear god, I probably could've found something better to do. I suck.
