Why We Hate You: An HDC Guide to Not Being an Asshat
 

Inspired by the recent General Forum activities.

The Problem
u dont bother to spell or punchuate ur sentenses or make n efort two use propur grammer.

The Solution
Have some respect for your readers if you want them to read your posts. Mozilla has an add on that underlines offending words in red. You don't have to be perfect, just readable.

The Problem
You start too many threads or the majority of your posts are irrelevant.

The Solution
Slow down there, buckaroo. Starting too many threads/posting too many irrelevant posts in one thread can frustrate people. Some feel it's pointless to make a thread/post to the OT when it's going to get bumped several pages.

The Problem
People keep asking me why I'm here:(

The Solution
Sometimes people wonder that when you join a horror board and never talk about horror. If people are saying this, that's probably the problem.

The Problem
Members yell at me for posting in the wrong forum/spamming/topics been done.

The Solution
We have a search function. It's not as good as it could be, but it helps you get by. Usually, if you start a new thread about a topic that's only 4-5 pages back, you're going to get called on it.

Search Help
To get the search feature to open, you have to right click on the search button and open it in a new window. For those of you who haven't been here very long, this came about when the forum underwent an upgrade. The upgrade still has some bugs in it that were never worked out, this being one of them.

Posting in the right forum is fairly simple. There are descriptions under the name of each forum about what to post there. It only takes a few seconds to browse through and figure out where your topic should go.

As far as spam, if you feel you must, be polite and don't try to pawn yourself off as someone else who found this "great new thing and must share it with people I've never enteracted with before." Post in the right forum, and don't get all defensive. There are plenty of people here who will give you an honest review of your crummy product.

The Problem
You guys are all assholes lolz:mad:

The Solution
Yes, we are.



Before anyone takes immediate offense, please note that this thread is supposed to be helpful. Constructive criticism (or barbing, as it goes here) makes up the backbone of our little INTERNETz society.

Bravo, Flayed

now maybe a little about obsessive ass-fucking/jizzing/fag-hate posts

This post is typed well enough and relevant to the topic. Just keep this up and chill with the..

Thread title- What's your favorite Scorsese film?

Dave response- elifants are prity n i luv mexikun food.

Member x response- Yeah, anyway...I'd say Goodfellas is a close second to Taxi Driver.

Dave response- a taxi driver tuk me two the zoo yesturda to sea the pritty elephints.

That's pointless and has nothing to do with the fact you can't write or spell to well.

Yes, other members make irrelevant post outta nowhere every now and then..sometimes it's funny/interesting or whatever and takes the topic off course for a bit. Yes, other members make off the wall threads for oblivious reasons every now and then..sometimes it's funny/interesting or whatever and goes on for a bit, on other occassions it'll get a few..''What the fuck are you talking about'' responses and go away.

All that's fine as long as it's every now and then instead of over and over and over and over...and over and over again, that's when it gets pointless and annoying.

And besides the spelling and irrelevance, not everybody's going to like you anyway, that's just how it is..you can get over it or cry about it, totally up to you.

To expand on Austin's point:

Using the same example, I see nothing wrong with a post like this:

Thread title- What's your favorite Scorsese film?

OMCAnnoyingMember: i dunno...there all gud. mean streetz i gess.


Yes- Its annoying as all fuck, but at least it makes some degree of sence....not just random crap like the vast majority of OMC / TG posts.

I think I might be an asshat because I've never figured out how to get the search function to work here. I first thought that it must be incompatible with Firefox, but I'm now worried that I might just be an asshat.

You're not an asshat for that. The search link doesn't work for me either. If I wanna search something, I have to physically type in the url of the search page.

As for the rest of this... Good thread Flayed. I don't have much problem reading OMCdave's threads despite the grammar & I don't spend much time reading TG's because they're all completely pointless, but I can certainly see the need for a thread like this. Good work.

I cant get my quick response thing to work.

On another note, someone said flayed has 3 stickies in this section. He has them because his threads are relevant to what everbody is thinking. So, tg/omc, look at what flayed does and then maybe you can do it too. Hopefully that will be easier thantrying to work out a strategy for yourself.

See that little button beside "Quote", below the post? Click that, then type your reply in the little box at the bottom of the page

Thanks for the search tutorial - very helpful.

I'd like to point another asshat style debating phenomenon. In a formal debate ad hominem comments are not welcome, and in any argument they don't deserve to discredit the opponent, they serve to make the attacker look like a flaming douche. Short debate style tutorial:
Wrong:
Imbecile 1: Children of the Corn 7 rocks the hizzie! It's like Citizen Kane with lesbians.
Imbecile 2: Cumswilling asstard! Sheepfucker! Children of the corn 7 blows!
Right:
The Smartest possible person who could have liked Children of the Corn 7:
Children of the Corn 7 was great. I don't see what all this Children of the Corn bashing is about.
Witty riposte:
Children of the Corn 7 is akin to bestiality.
While Children of the Corn 7 is akin to bestiality, we need not directly accuse those who love it of being cumswilling asstards or of having sheeploving proclivities. This goes back in a way to the productive posting comments at the beginning, but I think it's just as important to bring up productive rhetoric.

no need to be sheepish, who was it that said that? Or were you just being hypothetical...

He was being hypothetical, I'm sure.

Here's another nitpick of mine. If you plan on sticking about, you might want to take the time to invest in a custom avatar. If you use one of the HDC choices, it just kind of makes you blend in to the background.

The real kicker about that is, when some members choose one and keep it for so long, I start associating them with the avatar. Then, when I'm quickly going through threads and see that avatar, I'll stop to read the post and get halfway through before I realize it's not them.

I used to do that with hammerfan all of the time when she had the Pyscho shower scene avatar. I also automatically associate Doc Faustus with the Pinhead avatar and Disease with the Jason mask avatar.

Does anyone else do this?

I do for sure.

If the avatar changes, it trips me up a little at first.
I love Gmork, though.;)

Every time I see that mask I assume that it's one of Disease's posts.

Definitely...I always encourage new members to come up with an avatar of their own...I have even helped a lot of people to get one...But, it's not so easy anymore with the new size restrictions...

I have a few ready but I'd hate to lose my Evil Puppy...
Maybe one day those resrictions will be loosened.

That's sorta the point...No one needs a hat on their ass...So, an 'asshat' is pretty much ridiculous and useless...Now, apply that to some people...

anyone heard of the band called The Asshats?
wierd stuff. kinda ironic too, considering all of their songs have content of dicks and poop and such, kinda like the mindset of the asshats on this site!

For Master/Loader/Renob/Tosser type posters:

Please leave our forum, and join THIS one:

http://forums.consumptionjunction.com/

They will love you there...They are all just like you

I know that you'll like it much better THERE than here

It would be mutually beneficial

Well well well, about time he started to fart his shit around. Was wondering the other day how long it would take, and it didn't take that long.
Someone has to be THAT desperate to keep coming back even after countless bans, but yes they will do it for the simple reason that they are shameless, and get an erection from stirring up shit and getting other people all riled up.
So much energy, time and money being spent on such trivial stuff over the internet, while there remains so much to be done with this world.
Wanna make a difference? Get out there and do something worthwhile. At least some poor soul will be happy because of you.

Just delete the replies and put it back up there again.

Merge the first post of that thread ^ with this thread and you got a nice combo pack of guidelines. BR. It would be one hell of a sticky.


And a reply comes just when this was made a sticky again...:rolleyes:

*bump*

Perhaps it's that time of year again.

Agreed!
.........

I'm guessing I provoked this? Sorry. :)

its really not nearly as bad as back in the day.

Still, the guidlines in the first page should be taken to heart.

Agreed. I think we just have some new members who need to settle in a bit and get into the swing of things before the majority of the old ones make them walk the plank.

Wait are we talking about me or not, cause if we're not I'm so not interested.

AM I DOING IT RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I would venture so far as to say at the moment you would not be one of the folks whom most would direct this thread at.

Carry on being irrelevant, mate.

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They should have never given me that award

About time!

I don't know about anyone else, but as a Noob I found this thread very entertaining. Asshat is particularly descriptive.

I promise to try not to be an asshat. I will make every effort to write clearly and keep simple-minded posts to a minimum.

Thanks for the laugh.

it pretty much boils down to common sense.

- having the common sense to know how to react in public.
- having the common sense to get to know the culture of the forum (it takes about 5 minutes)

unfortunately - the classical asshat will have no common sense to speak of - so there really is no re-educating them.



crazy people dont know they are crazy - and if you tell them that they are crazy - they wont believe you.

I think I love you.

I'm quoting this to make sure it's read.

You might have to fight Rayne for me, but don't worry, there's plenty of Flayed to go around;)