People are wrong on the internet! What gets your goat?

[Andrew_C]

People who micro argue.

As in, not just arguing a certain point, but will cut an entire post into 50 different replies. It gets annoying.

I sort of agree with you there, there are times when an argument needs to be dissected and refuted in detail, but there are people who seem to do this to every post they reply to, and it can come across as a subtle form of trolling (although it's probably not ussually intended so).

 

[Hexenwolf]

I don't correct people anymore. I use to, but not anymore. Mind you, that doesn't mean I don't still get the urge (believe me, I sure as hell do), but whenever I feel the need, I simply think of this classic piece of philosophical artwork:

Spoiler: Spoiled for size

What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!​

 

[Wyes]

I don't correct people anymore. I use to, but not anymore. Mind you, that doesn't mean I don't still get the urge (believe me, I sure as hell do), but whenever I feel the need, I simply think of this classic piece of philosophical artwork:

Spoiler: Spoiled for size

What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!​

That is in fact precisely what I have in my mind every time I argue with people on the internet. I still can't help it. Unless my girlfriend is actually asking me to come to bed. Then I can.

 

[The Funslinger]

The only thing for me is when people confuse "Scientific Theory" with a "Hypothesis".

"Oh, X is just a Theory, that means it's made up and isn't proven!"
*facepalm*

Oh God, the rage! D:

Also, people who pretend to be in the military on the internet. Fuck right off. You actually have no damn right.

I remember seeing a Youtube comment (I know, I know...)

The gist of it was 'you're such a ******, I'm a sniper in the US army with the highest confirmed kill count in the world. I'm going to come to your house and kill you!'

Argh..............

People who do it more subtly are almost worse, because it's just scrounging glory they don't deserve, and just belittles the risks taken by actual soldiers.

 

[Andrew_C]

I really dislike how the the internet gives all of us the ability to know anything about anything, right at our fingertips. Yet people still go around stating bullshit as fact.

The world wide web (Tim Berners-Lee, Britain)

I'm going to have to argue with you on this. Tim Berners-Lee was working for CERN in Switzerland when he created the first primitive hypertext web browser (and web server). So the Word Wide Web is really a Pan-European achievement. And it's a logical developent of work done in the United States, without the Internet the World Wide Web couldn't exist in it's present form. And of couse most people conflate the WWW and Internet, so you would be better of correcting them on that point.

EDIT: Curses! I fell into your trap and became overly pedantic!

 

[FitScotGaymer]

I don't mind most of that.

What irritates me is two things...

When people are needlessly rude, when they could have gotten their point across without calling someone a "fucking idiot" or something equally dickish.

And when people are blatantly wrong, and you can actually like to wikipedia articles proving them wrong, and they will not admit they were wrong.
They will basically ending saying that the whole planet is wrong and they are right.

Fricking annoying.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much people who believe they are absolutely right in their belief (e.g. english dubbing suck or story in the game is superior to gameplay). This is made worse when he/ she is ignorant to other people opinion as in not accepting their opinion at all.
I don't care who you are or what you believe in but you must accept the fight that you CAN be wrong with your opinion no matter how right you believe in.

It like a scientist making an experienment, there could be an off chance it can go wrong that the scientist should accept no matter how much the scientist had calculated the success rate that it can go right.

 

[Piorn]

Also, people who pretend to be in the military on the internet. Fuck right off. You actually have no damn right.

I remember seeing a Youtube comment (I know, I know...)

The gist of it was 'you're such a ******, I'm a sniper in the US army with the highest confirmed kill count in the world. I'm going to come to your house and kill you!'

Are you sure you didn't fall for the gorilla warfare copypasta?

Spoiler

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little *****? I?ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I?ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I?m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You?re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that?s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little ?clever? comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn?t, you didn?t, and now you?re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You?re fucking dead, kiddo.

 

[maninahat]

It drives me nuts how much some people suck at reading comprehension, because it forces you to have to put stupid qualifiers everywhere to account for their endless ability to miss the point. You have to stick a line like "I don't mind [x] in general, but...", or "it's just my opinion, but...", or "some", just to account for people who would start stupid tangential arguments (the kind that begin with "oh, so you hate [x] huh?")

The other thing is people who come onto a thread, just to tell everyone how much they don't care about the thread's subject. If you're not fucking interested in seeing another feminist thread, why are you here telling us that? Do you really think we wanted to know how disinterested you were with our discussion? Spare us and say nothing.

EDIT: Oh, I thought of another one. People who still dismiss people with the word "sheep", or any other term that implies something to its effect ("open your eyes", "appeaser", "believer" etc.) Yes, it still happens.

 

[Private Custard]

I really dislike how the the internet gives all of us the ability to know anything about anything, right at our fingertips. Yet people still go around stating bullshit as fact.

The world wide web (Tim Berners-Lee, Britain)

I'm going to have to argue with you on this. Tim Berners-Lee was working for CERN in Switzerland when he created the first primitive hypertext web browser. So the Word Wide Web is really a Pan-European achievement. And it's a logical developent of work done in the United States, without the Internet the World Wide Web couldn't exist in it's present form. And of couse most people conflate the WWW and Internet, so you would be better of correcting them on that point.

EDIT: Curses! I fell into your trap and became overly pedantic!

I was hoping the opening ceremony of this years Olympics would have ended all discussion on this one!! And you really think I'd succeed by separating the www and the internet? You first......off to YouTube to try that one out, I'll give you an hour before you headdesk!!

And you haven't fallen into any trap......you're not being a dick about it!!

 

[maninahat]

I dislike the fact that people argue, instead of discuss. No one is going to change their minds based on something they read on the internet (unless they do, I'm not a fucking scientist). So discuss! Build understanding! It's not that hard. Unless it is for some people?

Sure they do, just not the people arguing. It's the people who read the arguments that are the target audience.

OT: I am terrible at keeping myself out of things. I've argued a lot of things, even on Youtube where I know what to expect. Religion, homophobia, racism are all button-pressers for me. And I can't resist the occasional spellcheck. I'll even go for people issuing blind praise on something or trying to suggest that something is deep and meaningful and being unable to explain when asked.

Oh, I think we're all guilty of that. I can't help myself whenever I see that "someone is wrong on the internet". That annoys me in and of itself.

 

[Yopaz]

- Evolution; I'm no biologist, but the basic facts aren't that hard. Still, I see people getting them wrong all the time.

Pretty much this one. I am a biologist and I have more knowledge on the specifics of evolution than most and almost guaranteed more knowledge than someone who's not a biologist. People seem to think it's a magical thing that allows anything to happen.

Most fun I have ever had was when I actually had to explain that there's fundamental differences between plants, bacteria and mammals. It doesn't get easier than that and still some haven't understood that. Also by fun I am being sarcastic. It was really annoying.

 

[The Funslinger]

Also, people who pretend to be in the military on the internet. Fuck right off. You actually have no damn right.

I remember seeing a Youtube comment (I know, I know...)

The gist of it was 'you're such a ******, I'm a sniper in the US army with the highest confirmed kill count in the world. I'm going to come to your house and kill you!'

Are you sure you didn't fall for the gorilla warfare copypasta?

Spoiler

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little *****? I?ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I?ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I?m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You?re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that?s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little ?clever? comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn?t, you didn?t, and now you?re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You?re fucking dead, kiddo.

Probably.

But it was just one example, and as I said, what really butters my crumpet[footnote]Yes, I'm British. What of it?[/footnote] is the people that use fake military claims to gain praise.

 

[The Funslinger]

- Evolution; I'm no biologist, but the basic facts aren't that hard. Still, I see people getting them wrong all the time.

Pretty much this one. I am a biologist and I have more knowledge on the specifics of evolution than most and almost guaranteed more knowledge than someone who's not a biologist. People seem to think it's a magical thing that allows anything to happen.

Most fun I have ever had was when I actually had to explain that there's fundamental differences between plants, bacteria and mammals. It doesn't get easier than that and still some haven't understood that. Also by fun I am being sarcastic. It was really annoying.

So you're saying my terrier won't evolve into a wolf if I enter him in enough dog fights?

 

[Terratina.]

Just when people don't seem to have any common sense. Ugh.

 

[Yopaz]

- Evolution; I'm no biologist, but the basic facts aren't that hard. Still, I see people getting them wrong all the time.

Pretty much this one. I am a biologist and I have more knowledge on the specifics of evolution than most and almost guaranteed more knowledge than someone who's not a biologist. People seem to think it's a magical thing that allows anything to happen.

Most fun I have ever had was when I actually had to explain that there's fundamental differences between plants, bacteria and mammals. It doesn't get easier than that and still some haven't understood that. Also by fun I am being sarcastic. It was really annoying.

So you're saying my terrier won't evolve into a wolf if I enter him in enough dog fights?

Well, I did just get a Lillipup to evolve into a Herdier and if I keep on it will become a Wathdog so I'd say it's plausible for a terrier to become a wolf, though if what Nintendo taught me about evolution is accurate I would assume that it's more likely to become a tiger. Also you need to get it to level 36 so it will probably take a while unless you got a few good TMs.

 

[Vault101]

Well, there's a difference between thinking music is objectively bad and disliking it.

which unfortunatly some people have not yet grasped


[quote/]There was actually a study done that demonstrated how music is becoming simpler and louder.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/07/27/pop_music_is_getting_louder_and_dumber_says_one_study_here_s_what_they_miss_.html

Just thought I'd point that out, since I'm one of the people who enjoys complaining about the kids and their music these days. The study lamentably left out rhythm, but I think that the point it makes still stands.[/quote]

first thing is I dont know if "current kids" music is objectivly bad (when your applying the 90% rule) people will ALWAYS "not get" kids music

my second and most important point is I believe we live in one of the best times for music..purely because of the internet, what we watch and hear in terms of music is not dictated by as many factors

because the thing you linked was "pop" music...and thats the thing..IT DOES NOT MATTER...it does not matter in the slightest if shit like LMFAO is popular because I don't have to listen to it

because of the internet I can go and find whatever "better" music I want that suits my tastes (and I do)

my point was people complain about pop music being bad like it matters...and ok I'm no expert on the industry and how it works...but the fact is you dont NEED to take any notice of the top 40 charts or any of that crap...just find an artist or a genre or a style you can follow and find what you want, you said yourself you like scandinavian power metal

 

[DaWaffledude]

When people get Star Wars wrong.

THE SITH ARE EVIL. JEDI DO NOT STEAL CHILDREN. YOU CAN NOT USE THE LIGHT SIDE AND THE DARK SIDE AT THE SAME TIME. YOU CAN'T USE THE DARK SIDE FOR GOOD PURPOSES, FULL STOP. THE REBELS ARE NOT TERRORISTS, THEY ARE REBELS.

 

[Eddie the head]

I hate when people say "you just don't get it" What continue explain what I don't "get." Believe it or not most of the the time people do "get it" but that doesn't mean they think the same way as you.