Forum Pet Peeves?

[MASONTX]

My biggest gripe at the moment is lack of contrast between read and unread threads. I am slowly adjusting to the new look, but still have to stare pretty intently to see the color difference. A couple of shades darker for the unread and a little lighter for the read would really help. Alternatively, bold added to unread and regular for read or a larger type would help.

[Jonathan183]

Current colour scheme makes forum difficult to use ... can't see buttons on coloured backgrounds, if I hover over logout etc at top of page I can't see the writing ...
If I want to tweak settings to my liking then I expect to have to play around with things, but defaults should be usable - these are not for me ...

[SkittleLinux18]

Does anyone else hate it when people ask questions, get an answer, then either:A, B, & C

I really do hate it when people don't report back. And the lack of gratitude. Like, they just expected us to solve it for them.

Really annoying when you have the same problem...

Agreed!! Or when they say, "Never mind, I went with another distro and everything's ok now."

3. People who revive ancient threads for no reason other than "i know how u feel duuude" or "this thread is LAME".

I laughed hard when I read that because I've seen that so many times on other forums. ROFL!

[*]People who come in and ask "Which Distro". The internet has been around long enough, and you should know you will get told to search for it. Do some research on your own please.

That drives me nuts! I think of 2-3 hours I spent on the phone with my buddy, who knew linux, that last weekend in June of 2007, as he walked me through various distros on distrowatch before I finally narrowed it down to PCLinuxOS; just to spend the next 6 months downloaded, burning, installing, reinstalling, and screwing up so many other distros for the following 6-8 months (and enduring TLFUs) before I finally settled into PCLinuxOS. And that was just to experience my worse TFLU ever another 6-7 months after that before I finally finished distro-hopping by sticking with kubuntu. I agree with you. Every time I see a thread like that, it just irks me. And I know they aren't going to research it because if they were like that, they would know a thing or two about computers to begin with!

I personally can't stand people who title a thread with "HELP! HELP! I'M A NOOB! HELP!!" Yeah, you're a noob alright. No indication of what the problem is in the title, and then your post itself doesn't help much either. Plus, you don't give any information about your computer. Oh, and look, you posted in the wrong section. You jackass!

I also hate it when people give no indication of what they have already tried doing and what the result was for it. And saying, "I tried this, but it didn't work" simply isn't enough. I'm always left thinking: Ok? Why didn't it work? What error message did you get, if any? How did you try what you tried? I have no idea if you even "tried" it the right way! For all you know, that will work, if you do it the right way! You jackass!

One thing that has always agitated me is the utter lack of individuals' effort to learn some basic things about how computers work. My friends come over to play PC games on my spare computer, and they forget to close other programs! I'll even remind them by saying, "Don't forget to close skype and trillian from the taskbar." And they say, "Taskbar? Where? How do I do that?" And they still look confused 10 months after I built the spare and put PC games on it!

Ok, that's enough of me derailing the thread. Oh look, I'm a total noob-jackass! Add derailing to the list! lol

[HalluxSinister]

You obviously aren't aware that a lot of people use "noob" in a rather specialised sense which is not synonymous with "newbie". A newbie is a novice who knows very little about Linux but is usually willing to learn. One should always be patient with these people. After all, we were all newbies once.

A noob is the kind of person who writes posts like "NOOB NEEDS HELP!!!". They call themselves noobs. They write as if they were texting on their mobiles and then whine about how difficult Linux is when you try to help them. Enough said!

Forgive me. I am... new... here. (To LF, that is) and was just giving yous hit. Hahhahahah. I thought you might laugh at that, as I do (if you look at some of my other, longer-winded posts in other threads) where I end with , "but I digress, I do go on..." which is my self-deprecating humor, when I look back on what I intended to be a 30 second post that turned into an article unto itself... often only semi-coherent, lacking much in the way of structure, or even a point. I just get bored sometimes, and start typing instead of doing what I SHOULD be doing, studying. Guess I should get back to that. Cheers, and thanks for the tip. I will never look at the word "noob" the same way again. ~Hal