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The sort of posters/argument types you see on Boards

  • 18-07-2015 4:25pm
    #1
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    What ones spring to mind?

    My favourites (I'm taking the piss) are the:

    1. Respond to every post with a set of questions poster.
    2. Pretend to be going out for drinks when loosing an argument poster
    3. Disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing poster.


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  • #2
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    welcome to the internet from 1999.


  • #3
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Requests a link,gets provided with link,doesn't even read link


  • #4
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    What ones spring to mind?

    My favourites (I'm taking the piss) are the:

    1. Respond to every post with a set of questions poster.
    2. Pretend to be going out for drinks when loosing an argument poster
    3. Disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing poster.

    tl;dr. I'm away for a pint.


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Posts a link with indignation and has clearly not even read the link themselves.

    The "I'm never wrong.." despite it having been made patently clear that they are.

    The virtual hard men. All talk and no trousers, as granny used to say.


  • #6
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    There's only 2 categories I know of;

    • Me.
    • Cunnts.


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  • #7
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    -Scanlas
    -Not Scanlas

    It's split fairly 50-50

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #8
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    The ones who get upset when you won't engage in "arguments" with them :rolleyes:


  • #9
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,693 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Well, this sounds familiar.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The 'I'm not anti-muslim/women/immigration/frogs' poster, who starts a thread detailing why he thinks frogs are bringing about the downfall of civilisation to get a few digs in, under the guise of concern.


  • #11
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    The 'serial stupid thread starter'.

    Not you OP, but AH has 3 or 4 of them who seem to start 90% of the threads on here.


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  • #12
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    The 'serial stupid thread starter'.

    Not you OP, but AH has 3 or 4 of them who seem to start 90% of the threads on here.

    Also called a 'poo -thread' maker.


  • #13
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Blue roll eye chap as a response to a massive block of text.


  • #14
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    The 'serial stupid thread starter'.

    Not you OP, but AH has 3 or 4 of them who seem to start 90% of the threads on here.

    copycat threads


  • #15
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    What ones spring to mind?

    My favourites (I'm taking the piss) are the:

    1. Respond to every post with a set of questions poster.
    2. Pretend to be going out for drinks when loosing an argument poster
    3. Disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing poster.

    The ones who try to get that 2nd post.

    <failed again>

    :(


  • #16
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    People who write rambling walls of text in a pathetic and obvious effort to hoover up 'thanks'

    People who answer everything with one or two lines because they are on a phone, and more importantly, they have a life


    I'm the latter. :)


  • #17
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    The type that no matter what the thread is about derail it by bringing up something about the dole/Muslims/immigrants etc.


  • #18
    PLL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    Those who don't have kids suggesting how other people should raise their kids.


  • #19
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    In "work problems" threads.....most common answer 'leave your job'
    ....as if there are thousands of jobs out there.


  • #20
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,693 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Two you can come across here:



    A: This thread is full of posters saying (outrageous thing).

    B: Really? Can you point out some of these posts?

    A: Sure if you can't see them, there's no point me highlighting them



    And another I noticed recently:



    A: It is a fact that (insert claim).

    B: Really? I'd like to see evidence for that. Do you have a link?

    A: I think you are posting nonsense so I will not waste my time posting a link for you.


  • #21
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    The type who blame everything on Enda Kenny

    The thinly veiled 'my life choices are so much better than yours' posts


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  • #22
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭blackcard


    The posters who say 'You couldn't make it up '
    You couldn't make it up


  • #23
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    People who link ANY subject to Irish Water. The thread could be about the New Horizons probe and some clown will say "at least they don't have Irish Water out there, wha?"

    ****ing idiots.


  • #24
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Users that disagree with me. Damn fools.

    Oh and whinging about the "Daily Fail" as a source.


  • #25
    Red21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Red21


    believers and non believers and I'm not talking about religion


  • #26
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    People who make vague posts


  • #27
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭blackcard


    Those who put 'lol' after their own posts.


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    1. Respond to every post with a set of questions poster.

    Fishing exercises. They drive me round the bend.

    You make some banal statement, stating fact you happen to know and they respond with pithy questions. So you explain.

    They ask for proof. Then you have to go off and track-down some obscure .pdf file in the internet's undergrowth to satisfy their curiosity.

    You present them with proof, all goes silent, and then ... they come at you again with a totally different set of questions and hissing new things they want you to prove. All the while, they contribute nothing.

    When I'm King, I'll have these wastrels rounded up and put in the workhouse where they will be forced to sweep the sunshine off the roads with toothbrushes.


  • #29
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    People who think what they have to say on the thread is all that needs to be said.

    /thread.


  • #30
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    /thread.

    People who think this is clever


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  • #31
    Aenaes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Aenaes


    The devil's advocates.


  • #32
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    The Shouty Noisy Ones. No........................din


  • #33
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The link /proof merchants.

    Where asking for link /proof isn't actually to illuminate an informal discussion, but as an obfuscation tactic to 'win' arguments and buttress an agenda.

    For example, prove that Marty was in the 'Ra, etc.


  • #34
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    anncoates wrote: »
    The link /proof merchants.

    Where asking for link /proof isn't actually to illuminate an informal discussion, but as an obfuscation tactic to 'win' arguments and buttress an agenda.

    For example, prove that Marty was in the 'Ra, etc.

    That works both ways, with people who think that posting a link or video is case closed. To me, it shows they have no argument of their own, and no understanding of the topic.


  • #35
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Black/White or Love/Hate thinking. Example: the Angela Merkel - bashing thread a couple of days ago, I hinted that she might have some reason to be a little annoyed. Since I fell short of absolute condemnation, I was immediately accused of trying to "beatify" her (other poster's word). So, the Chancellor of Germany is either a Saint or the Devil herself, nothing in-between is possible.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #36
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Saipanne wrote: »
    That works both ways, with people who think that posting a link or video is case closed. To me, it shows they have no argument of their own, and no understanding of the topic.

    Link?


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  • #37
    opiniated
    Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭opiniated


    PLL wrote: »
    Those who don't have kids suggesting how other people should raise their kids.

    Nah! Those who don't have kids telling other people how to raise their kids!:D


  • #38
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Hitchens wrote: »
    The Shouty Noisy Ones. No........................din

    Mod note

    We are not using this thread to have a go at individual posters. Posts like the above are not welcome.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #39
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    rereg accounts we know of and ban and non-rereg accounts we don't know of and wait to ban

    That and people who argue for a bit then leave it and people who literally argue for days, if not weeks, over the same topic.


  • #40
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Saipanne wrote: »
    People who think this is clever

    Any chance that might have been what I was saying?


  • #41
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭blackcard


    Saipanne wrote: »
    People who link ANY subject to Irish Water. The thread could be about the New Horizons probe and some clown will say "at least they don't have Irish Water out there, wha?"

    ****ing idiots.

    You have just done this yourself


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  • #42
    Carlos Orange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭Carlos Orange


    Posts opinion on thread about news story but never even bothers to read linked article.


  • #43
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    blackcard wrote: »
    You have just done this yourself

    No. Think about it good and hard now. Start with the thread topic and work forward... there you go.


    Oh, I have one. People who don't read thread topics.


  • #44
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Similarly themed / titled threads to ones which are currently active is a little baffling.

    Rob ideas from another online forum if ya must but from the same one just makes you look like a big copycat.


  • #45
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,544 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Liars, posting crap they know is a lie, simply to bolster their own political agenda.


  • #46
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    Any chance that might have been what I was saying?

    Ah.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The persecution-complex-poster who imagines slights in almost everything.


  • #48
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Candie wrote: »
    The persecution-complex-poster who imagines slights in almost everything.

    Is that a dig at me?


  • #49
    Jake Dirty Squadron
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Jake Dirty Squadron


    Candie wrote: »
    The persecution-complex-poster who imagines slights in almost everything.

    This is why women are to blame for everything because I got rejected once
    They're so horrible why won't they love me


  • #50
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Ruu wrote: »
    Blue roll eye chap as a response to a massive block of text.

    :rolleyes:


  • #51
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭blackcard


    Saipanne wrote: »
    No. Think about it good and hard now. Start with the thread topic and work forward... there you go.


    Oh, I have one. People who don't read thread topics.
    You managed to bring Irish Water into a thread which has nothing to do with Irish Water?


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