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QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 06:35 PM)
when people act like they are too cool to care about a struggling team and respond to a thread by saying "oh, I didn't even know they had a game today".

This may not be intended as such but I have one specific poster in mind. I know they are well-respected and have the Sox best interests in mind but it definitely irks me as well. It's overplayed: we get it- you're upset with Ozzie and a few players, get over it. I say this all knowing full well that I don't post often but I do read every post in the PHT forum every day; I just subscribe to the thought that if you don't have something truly productive and insightful to say, don't say anything at all.

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people who don't let a f***ing argument die, when it's one poster's crusade against everyone else and they have to reply to every single post on the topic and argue it vehemently (this happens several times a year in PHT).

 

In the same vein as above, hijacking every topic and turning it into the exact same argument again, and again, and again, and again for weeks, months, and sometimes across seasons. A few years ago it was about whether Anderson sucks and if so, how much. Not too long ago it was on keeping Crede or moving on, although this was more of the paragraph above. This past year it's been about getting rid of Hudson for Jackson.

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I think most of my pet peeves were touched on here. Bad grammar bothers me more than bad spelling, but I dislike the grammar police posts, too. It's a message board, and I think if the point gets across, the point gets across.

 

So, the pet peeve that bothers me the most where I don't feel bad complaining about are the posts that are obviously made to pick fights.

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People whose need for attention is so great, that they intentionally take one silly extreme or another in an argument to make their point. Pretty much ruins any chance of discussion.

 

Similarly, posters who go into a thread where everyone is pretty much agreeing on something, see the chance to stand out in some way, so they say some assinine thing like "I would have kicked that puppy too. Who cares?". Which is inevitably followed by people getting all up in arms, like "puppy kicker! How could you?!?!?!", not realizing that was the exact reaction they were going for.

 

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