What are your pet hates in IM...

Liam! I was just messing with a Captcha form this morning that was driving me nuts! I'm glad the ability to complete one of those forms correctly the first time is not a pre-requisite for making money online.

cheers,
Becky

1. When Google suspects that I am doing too many automated searches when I am just at my laptop doing one search through their search box. Then when I go to their help page they say that I should type in the captcha code to say I'm not a robot and if I don't see the captcha code I should check my system for spyware by downloading some software. I don't show the captcha and I don't have spyware - I use a Mac.

2. People who hype a tool to do something and forget to mention that it only works on a PC which I don't find out until opting in to their list and downloading the zip file and unarchiving a zip file which is unuseable on my Mac. I'm going to qualify this by saying that more and more Macs are being bought (even the Guru's are switching over) so the excuse that PC's are the dominant personal computer in the market is not an excuse for not keeping us in mind when you are offering tools for IM'ers.

nitch nitch nitch.

It's not it's NICH

Yeah, this totally honks me off too.

I agree Andy.

Its pretty bad when you see someone posting a question in the forum asking "How can I change the theme of my Wordpress blog?" -- when their signature reads "Customized wordpress blogs installed - just $59 - CLICK HERE" :rolleyes:

Along the same lines as this is the people who show a screen shot of their Paypal/Clickbank as proof of how powerful the system is, what they fail to mention is the numbers shown in the screen shot are from sales for the very product they are selling and not what the product teaches.

Not all do this I must add but there are many that do.

Thanks
Andy

I hate sales copy that insults my intelligence and talks to me like I'm an inept loser with the mind and self awareness of a 2 year old.

I hate being told that if I decide not to invest is some high ticket product/program that I have issues with money and that the only way to solve those issues is to invest in that product/program.

I hate being terrorized with the turbo-testosterone mindset that this program/product/service is my only way to make sure that I don't find myself living in a cardboard box under the interstate overpass by next week.

N.

I'm in one of those moods where I don't give a flip what anyone thinks about my blunt honesty, and I gotta say...

Anyone who pronounces this so it rhymes with 'pine' is a freaking moron. No ifs, ands, or buts. It's obviously meant to be like magazine. But you're right, Matt, I hear it in videos a lot too. Makes me wanna punch 'em in the throat. You know, the "throw-at".

That sounds vaguely familiar.

But how does it work?

Because a digital image scanner must be able to understand the text... OR it must have already been converted by someone else... otherwise the captcha software wouldn't know whether I was typing the text in correctly or not.

So I don't see how people typing that stuff in helps, since it's already been converted and/or is readable. Unless I'm totally thinking about this in the wrong way.

Not a question directed at you (John), just throwing an open question out to anyone who knows.

cheers,
Becky

Hate to break this to you, Matt, but this statement just made Zeuss about 500% more attractive to about half (if not more) of the female audience.

Vampires are DEAD sexy! (Pardon the pun. Or not.)

My pet hate is gibbering idiots actually making money from the internet :p

of course not, as if.........

LOL "Normally my stupid ebook sells for $152,000...$151,501 saved is $151,501 earned"

haha you guys gotta read this "sales page"...

Exactly!!!

That bugs me too. Some other forums insist that you never ask the same question twice. Look it up!! Do research you lazy dork!! That only works for a knowledge base.

A forum is a conversation and during conversation people bring up the same things periodically. There is new information, there are new insights, and opinions. There are new people to bounce questions off.

What is the best autoresponder? I've seen that brought up over and over. You know... information changes over time and perhaps there is a new one that is not listed in the old thread. Perhaps the person asking knows very well all the autoresponders that exist except with the question someone says "I'm just coding a new one". That is new information that no one had and wouldn't have been discovered by looking at old threads.

I agree with that to an extent, but not fully. It depends on what's being asked I guess.

Sometimes, when it is such a simple thing, that would get you a QUICKER answer than going out of your way to post a thread on the forum, then it is kind of annoying to see it.

For example.. someone posted a thread right now asking something to the effect of "what is a subdomain, I am signing up for a hosting package and I am completely confused".

Why not do a Google search for the term SUBDOMAIN, where the first page on the results is the wikipedia page about the term, and will tell you anything and everything you wanna know about the subject. Then, when you have a clearer understanding of what it is, maybe post something here if you need further clarification. This is also beneficial as you get an answer to your extremely simple question immediately and then get on with your business, instead of waiting for someone to reply on the forum.

Again, this is not a personal attack to whoever made the above mentioned post, nor the only example around. I could sit here all day if I went and picked out such posts.

I also understand that this is an issue of different perspectives, so everyone may not agree with mine, but I just think there's something to be said about at least doing a simple, lazy search on Google or this forum before you start a brand new thread for thousands of eyeballs... to ask something as mundane as "How do I spell my name?".

AAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhhhh!!!!

Another pet hate.

People that CANT spell - LOSE!!!!!!!

Its LOSE NOT LOOSE!!!!!!