In an earlier post I made I stated several things that annoyed me about people on internet forums. Becky commented and gave me a link to this and I thought it was so brilliant that I’d share it again:
How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
1 to move it to the Lighting section
2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section
7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
5 to flame the spell checkers
3 to correct spelling/grammar flames
6 to argue over whether it’s “lightbulb” or “light bulb” … another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is “lamp”
15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that “light bulb” is perfectly correct
19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum
11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum
36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty
7 to post URL’s where one can see examples of different light bulbs
4 to post that the URL’s were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL’s
3 to post about links they found from the URL’s that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group
13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add “Me too”
5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy
4 to say “didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”
13 to say “do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs”
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.
Absolutely spot on and true. Anyone who has been on any kind of forum/discussion board must have seen this before!
Cat
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i love it. its really old but every so often i have cause to find it again :)
Yeah, it’s absolutely brilliant.
I posted it on a forum I am a mod/admin on: Matchbox360
It’ll be interested what people will say about it there. :)
Oh now—isn’t that just right. Thinks may change on the WWW in a New York minute but forums have always remained the same albeit all the bling, avatars, browser sniffers and little guys holding up signs stating your browser, OS and IP.
Sometimes it’s just a blast reading them.
Long may they live.
Scuse my spelling pleeze…
It is amazing, isn’t it?
What I find even more amazing is that forums will move the same way, regadless of the content. You will find the same kind of people at a forum about knitting and computer gaming.
That is just so very annoying. I do not like them.
I don’t like those little guys either. They were created to show you how much information about you can be seen. A security issue if you will.
Yeah, it’s just that I at least am aware of what’s being seen. Does that mean I want to see all the time that I’m using XP and Firefox2? Not really….
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Yeah, thanks for sharing on a completely unrelated post. Anything else you’d like to share?
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