What gets your Goat on the forums?

[Haydenphoto]

Oh...one really big thing that gets under my skin....probably faster than anything else....

...is when some folks make off-the-wall wild-assed assumptions about the staff's reasons or motivations behind some of the decisions we make or actions we take around here. Stuff comes out of left-field that has absolutely no basis in reality, but is spoken as if it is some sort of absolute truth. When the integrity of the staff is openly questioned for no other reason than because someone doesn't like something we said or did.... Yeah....that'll get me revved up.

That's it i have my new hero ! We should all HAIL - JLC where is that stick

[p3titexburial]

Goat-stealers get my goats.

Get your own stupid goats. -_-;;;

No but seriously. Rudeness, I guess mostly, but I try not to let anything really bother me. It's online, it's impersonal, posts have no tone (imagine if they did!) so lots of things can generally be misinterpreted. -shrug- Life's too short to always dwell on negative things and being negative to other people. I'd rather spend time doing other more worthwhile things.

[MattU]

People who ask questions or tell stories with long, drawn out, run on sentences. Try as I may I can't force myself to read them

on a side note, this is an insanely popular thread. Feels good to belly-ache a little I guess haha

[BPelizabeth]

I hate when people ask a question and then seem to argue with people if the answer isnt exactly what they wanted. Makes me want to strangle them for asking in the first place if they are not going to listen.

OMG....ditto...ditto...ditto

[blackcrystal22]

While trying to think of something witty to say, I realized I hate when that's all people try to do.
Oh wait, I do that.

What get's my goat is when people aren't willing to admit their own mistakes. Hey, after all those "is this normal a Morph" threads, I realized, even though they are annoying and repetitive, I thought my 50% Poss. Het Caramel Ball Python was a 'Morph' when I got it.

We were all there once, right?

[Patricia]

Seems like there are a few things that happen on the internet in forums that make people annoyed, upset...

#1 upset: Using the Lord's name like a cuss word and having it be acceptable here. That's when I started participating here less.

#1 annoyance: People who refuse (as opposed to being unaware of it) to use the wonderful Search function here, but need every piece of info handed to them on a plate; the "cater to me" attitude.

[Ash]

High-and-mighty, holier-than-thou attitudes in general. The hobby is supposed to be for fun. How can people be so impatient and condescending when they're apparently discussing something they really enjoy?

Also, I understand that some people like to spoil their animals, but I feel a lot of the time people forget that the main reason ball pythons are so wildly popular is that they are low-maintenance and quite hardy. I'm sick of seeing replies like "If you're not prepared to buy the helix thermostat/digital weighing scale/go to an exotics vet because you heard its breathing hiss once, you probably should have thought twice about owning a ball python". The vast majority of people respond appropriately, but somehow on every 'help me' thread, there's always at least one like that. That's a bit on the extreme side. People who honestly have those kinds of spending habits wont be owning pets for long. XD You can't solve every problem by throwing money at it, and if you can it should be a last resort.

[recycling goddess]

My number one pet peeve is when people come into a thread, state something as though it's the truth and when questioned we find out that their second cousin on their mother's side's sister's boyfriend was drunk one night and told them this was a fact and they accepted it as so and now share it with others.

In short... stating misinformation as fact.

My other pet peeve... people who believe whatever they read without understanding that GOOGLE IS THEIR FRIEND and they can (and should) check it out before believing what they just read!

[iCandiBallPythons]

I forgot one... It bugs me when after a paragraph or sentence ppl type " That being said". It doesnt seem logical to type something out and then type "That being said". I know what was being said cuz I read it...

[STEW]

I forgot one... It bugs me when after a paragraph or sentence ppl type " That being said". It doesnt seem logical to type something out and then type "That being said". I know what was being said cuz I read it...

That being said.... I cannot stand when someone posts an answer to a question and then six people post the same exact thing with nothing more to add..... whats the point in that?