Top ten: Things that have gotten old at FR [Vanity]

January 18, 2010 | delacoert

[delacoert]

 10. Blog hawking (I know, I know, we're supposed to be nice.)

 9. Run-on, single-paragraph posts

 8. Pings to Jim Robinson with kiss ass complements

 7. Posting "hugh and series", "stuned beeber" or "Bush's fault"

 6. A post asking a noOb if they are sure they're logged in

 5. Passive-aggressive keyword epithet war

 4. Satire posts that fool you (the rest are hilarious)

 3. Viking Kitties (just kidding... love ya'... really...  who'd poke fun at you...  rah roh.)

 2. Vanities

 1. ...

[CaribouCrossing]

“Stop posting to me.”

Yep. Mommy make him stop looking at me. bleh

[ari-freedom]

“I still like (?) pix of Helen Thomas, Ann Coulter and the school teacher student sex abusers and the guilty and not guilty verdicts.”

ummm no.

[onyx]

#1 LONG FREEP-A-THONS!

[Tex-Con-Man]

Links to YouTube videos...with no explanation other than: “Hey, watch this...it’s the bestest ever!”

[CaribouCrossing]

Reread your comment. For your convenience, ““20. People who have been around here since last week who think they know better.”

The implication if your post was that people who haven’t been around here as long as some “think they know better”. Your comment implied that a poster’s sign-up date was more important than the views they expressed.

[TruthHound]

Posts that assume everyone should know the location and party affiliation of every local yokel, i.e. “Aloicious P. Shagnasty has brought shame to Bohunk!” D or R? Where TH is Bohunk?

Divine righters who call everyone a RINO.

Posters with absolutely no sense of humor.

[CaribouCrossing]

Many causes for that known but not acknowledged.

[fr_freak]

That’s one of the reasons I lurk rather than post very often. Used to be folks said something intelligent, gave some insight, shared something that was worthy rather than sound like a bunch of ignorant punks giving each other high-fives in an echo chamber.

I have to agree with you there. Not only do I post a lot less because the level of discourse has deteriorated, but I don't even bother reading half the threads I see because I can predict the contents of the first 50 posts without even looking (e.g. "Bush's fault!", "We're doomed!",etc.).

Other than that, I dislike the number of RINOs and Big Government suckers we seem to have added to our membership in the last few years - just about the same time that the level of intelligence seems to have dropped on FR. Coincidence?

[this_ol_patriot]

Helen Thomas picture posts on threads about attractive women ‘for balance’

Ms. Thomas is my mom.
What do you think of them apples?
Huh, huh...

[shibumi]

Ok, then stop

-ing

to me.

[John Valentine]

I’m with you.

If ever these terms were banned from FR, it would be hugh, and extremely series. In fact, I’d be stuned, despite being unaffected by most beebers.

Now, if someone would please hold muh beer, I have gun to clean.

[firebrand]

I kind of like those. It’s fun trying to guess which state it’s from. Like watching a movie and trying to guess which city it’s in by catching a street sign or a newspaper truck.

[o_zarkman44]

1. Libtards claiming to be conservative.

[CaribouCrossing]

“I have to agree with you there. Not only do I post a lot less because the level of discourse has deteriorated, but I don’t even bother reading half the threads I see because I can predict the contents of the first 50 posts without even looking (e.g. “Bush’s fault!”, “We’re doomed!”,etc.).

Other than that, I dislike the number of RINOs and Big Government suckers we seem to have added to our membership in the last few years - just about the same time that the level of intelligence seems to have dropped on FR. Coincidence?”

I basically read the articles posted and quickly scroll down to see if anyone posted something worth reading. I don’t get far before going to another article.

As for this particular forum, like the government, it has been run into the ground by those who do not have our best interests at heart. That includes

[Slings and Arrows]

Posters who post to other posters telling the other posters not to post to the poster.

Don't post this to me.

[CaribouCrossing]

Cereal ads are also annoying. ;) ha

[GATOR NAVY]

"That woman must have some beautiful sisters and handsome brothers cause she soaked up all the ugly that family had."

Not bad. I prefer "fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down".

[Allegra]

Don't post this to me.

You posted it to me first.

I'm tellin'.

[denydenydeny]

“Not good.”

Satire posts pretending to be real news.

Threads that gradually morph into chat threads after 300 posts or so.

[ari-freedom]

"Ms. Thomas is my mom."


You lie!