[Rain]

Annoying acronyms:

Some forums I read (not in BBF thankfully!) have posters who use acronyms like:

DD, DH, DS, DW (dear daughter, dear husband, dear son dear wife) and they inject this all the time when they can be saying "My son/wife" etc.

"SO" for special other is fine. But whassup with the "Dear xyz" interjected into every line?

And all the "ur" "dis" kind of shortform sprinkled into every other sentence.

Caps lock/gargantum/rainbow coloured fonts:

[B]ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!!!!![/B]

People who claim to be leaving forever and/or ignore xyz's posts "so don't bother to argue with me you are ignored forever and ever i can't see you i had the last word LOLOL"

People who don't believe in paragraphing.

In Singapore, people who write in "singlish". Example from wiki:
"Dis guy Singlish damn powerful one leh." At times (very very infrequent intervals) singlish is used for a humourous effect. But posters who persist in using this in normal english language boards just cause me to lose all respect.

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I'll add others on my next caffeine dose.

[helene_t]

What annoyed me the most was the Dutch StepBridge Forum. Like this one, expect that almost all discussions was about the rating system. Everybody had his own suggestion for a reform that would make the rating system 100% fair and was convinced that his own suggestion was brilliant and all the 999 other suggestions were moronic.

[Rain]

haha nice website Justin.

I aspire to be nanny, ben = supernanny. Fred is probably the godfather, and uday the admin.

BBFers as a whole are definitely very different (in a positive sense) from posters in other forums I frequent. Maybe because the bridge playing demographic is a specific sort. Maybe I'm a troll. Sometimes it feels like being a troll is fun.

[scoob]

grammar nazis

[pclayton]

Jlall, on May 30 2007, 08:19 AM, said:

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warrior...ndusmaximus.htm

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warrior...rtfuldodger.htm

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warrior.../grammarian.htm

etc...the list goes on and on but these are the most annoying to me.

Busted a gut, nice J.

I can see many parallels to the posters here, but I won't name 'names'.

[jdonn]

Any talk of ZAR count as a serious evaluation tool, especially in beginner forums.

Thanks a lot Big-Dog, er Justin, I just wasted so much time looking at all those!

[GeeGee]

Jlall, on May 30 2007, 04:19 PM, said:

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warrior...ndusmaximus.htm

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warrior...rtfuldodger.htm

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warrior.../grammarian.htm

etc...the list goes on and on but these are the most annoying to me.

Excellent Justin,

if only I hadn't recognised myself in profundismaximus and grammarian.

Geoff

Edit:- As a university graduate in Latin (honest!!, but back in the sixties), I think but am not sure it should be 'profundis', rather than 'profundus'. But I don't want to be considered one of those maximus thingies.

This post has been edited by GeeGee: 2007-May-31, 00:53

[Codo]

I hate that 95% of all posters who posted a real blunder are not able to say: Yes sorry, I was wrong but still try to defend there silly position.

I dislike comments like : "3 NT" to a poll. without any reasoning.

[keylime]

The overuse of the exclaimation point. That bugs me to no end.

Secondly, the pandemic of "faster"....no matter what the circumstance.

[GeeGee]

keylime, on May 31 2007, 01:35 PM, said:

The overuse of the exclaimation point. That bugs me to no end.

Secondly, the pandemic of "faster"....no matter what the circumstance.

Err, oops, sorry keylime, for "honest!!", read "honest"

Geoff