Things That Drive Us Mac Forumers Crazy!

Broken links. Drives me nuts.

Aptmunich said:

I wish I could take you seriously... but with less than 300 posts? Sorry...

Seriously though - apart from the usual Moderator gripes (people intent on causing trouble, cross posting, spammers) I don't have too many pet peeves.

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See what I mean!!! Ban this guy!! You and your 1023981029381 posts

Whoa!
That'll do it for this "noob".
'scuse the ring.

The term "noob". Everyone has to start somewhere and generally you would join a forum such as this for assistance or information. To be mocked or burned for asking a question that some may find trivial doesn't help anyone.

quicksilver said:

The term "noob".

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On a similar note, I detest the term "switcher".

Nobody should switch from one OS to the other. Learn both. Use both. Don't give up one for the other.
Augment your knowledge, but don't reduce your choices.

people who dont bother to read an entire 2 page thread, then posting somehting already asked then answered. I understand if the thread is like 40 pages long, but if its only 2-3 pages, seriously.

That "New Macbook Confirmed??" thread with 600+ replies. For whatever reason, I never bothered to read it with it first appeared. Then it got so many replies, that I refused to read it because it was so long. Now I wonder if there's anything interesting in there, but I don't wonder enough to weed through 600+ replies.

baggss said:

5) People who are too insecure to leave their name with rep, good or bad. If you feel strongly enough to leave rep about it you should be willing to stand up for it.

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I agree with that one. That said I have never left a negative rep, and (unless I forget) I leave my username as part of the comment

But a big gripe is people not looking for previous answers, its kind of understandable if you don't know much about forums, but not as bad as posting questions that are so obvious a simple Google search would have given the answer

But I guess that is what the forum is for, help and community for noobs and Mac fanboys (and girls) alike

Threads being relocated from "Anything Goes" to somewhere else because supposedly "not just anything goes in Anything Goes"... and then realising it wasn't MHC that moved it.

1. People who don't say thank you after you've helped them.
2. (This is me) When I type a swear word without thinking and then realizing it....After you receive a warning.
3. People who don't post back letting us know if the solution worked. I've had so many questions and I've searched on the forum for answers and you never know if the solution worked.
Well.....I think that's it...It's pretty much why I'm on here so much...I love the people on this site and I love to help the people on it...Regardless if they say thank you or not.

I would prefer it if people didn't respond to threads that are blatant spam, but rather just report it instead.

Some very good points made in this thread. My Pet Peeves?
•People who don't post their Mac specs, or include them in a signature.
•People who don't - or won't - try to find out as much as they can before posting a question [although searching the forums isn't always a simple matter]
•People who knock or mock others' questions or answers [don't get much of that in this forum ]
•Pedantry

My personal pet peeve is someone who took the time to register simply to ask when something is coming out or how much something will be or what the newest version of whatever will have specification wise.

That drives me up the wall!

Ie. "So when will the new iPhone be out?", "How fast will the new Macbook's render my final cut project?", "How much will the new iMac's cost?"

Around the time of the iPhone 3G this was rife, and the worst type of this kind of post is the demanding type...

"My mum and dad said they will get me a new iPhone, so when will it be out because I need to get one for my birthday"

I know these posts generally get ignored and I ignore them to, but it does make my skin crawl.

Mel

Ps, and the obvious, posting a question and getting 4 billion views but no reply. I know this happens in any forum, but it can be disheartening when your genuinely stuck with a problem and no other method of resolving it has helped.

People whose posts start:

"In Windows I can do X and on the Mac I cannot"

And the only thig worse is when posting a problem, about anything; say for example "I tried to install Leopard update 10.5.4 and have an problem" you get someone say:

"Well I installed it on all 9,000 of my Macs and had no issue, plus I installed it on my entire school and city and I installed it for Steve Jobs too and even on my digital watch and it took 3 seconds and works great"

... shut up...

Zoolook said:

And the only thing worse is when posting a problem, about anything; say for example "I tried to install Leopard update 10.5.4 and have an problem" you get someone say:
"Well I installed it on all 9,000 of my Macs and had no issue....."

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Oh yeeeesssssss Zoolook! That is singularly the most irritating response ever. Sure, those who say it mean well, but it is about as much use as gumboots on a duck!

hughvane said:

Some very good points made in this thread. My Pet Peeves?
•People who don't post their Mac specs, or include them in a signature.
•People who don't - or won't - try to find out as much as they can before posting a question [although searching the forums isn't always a simple matter]
•People who knock or mock others' questions or answers [don't get much of that in this forum ]
•Pedantry

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This annoys me too. I know this is a forum, and people come here to ask questions and get help ..... but I almost feel like it makes people lazy and dependent. In the last 2 weeks I have answered at least 10-15 questions based on not my experience, but by typing the question into google and looking at MAYBE 2-5 pages.

Oh and xjaguar, I am with you bro, I just got warned as well.

hughvane said:

Oh yeeeesssssss Zoolook! That is singularly the most irritating response ever. Sure, those who say it mean well, but it is about as much use as gumboots on a duck!

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Many people get fixated on the fact that they just did a system update. So, if the computer hiccups in anyway, it absolutely MUST be related to the update in some form.

It's the same thing whenever we roll out a new Microsoft patch at work to our Windows machines. Even if the patch doesn't actually deploy, but we've announced that we're rolling security patches, I still get the "my machine doesn't do <insert whatever> since the update". A week goes by, I deploy the update late, and no one says a word...

Another thing that bugs me, more as a Mac user than as a general forum thing:

Icons on the desktop.

C'mon guys. You have the dock for a reason. If you're really good, you've also got QuickSilver and Spotlight.

Almost as bad is docks with programs that are never used in it. I mean, how many times do you actually use iWeb?

Grrrrrr.

D3v1L80Y said:

I would prefer it if people didn't respond to threads that are blatant spam, but rather just report it instead.

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Amen!

And Derek, not even a Hard Drive icon on the desktop?

dtravis7 said:

Amen!

And Derek, not even a Hard Drive icon on the desktop?

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Okay. Fine. I'll allow removable media too.

Hard drives and removable media are okay folks.

So shall it be written, so shall it be done.