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[MollyBloom]

http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=19445651&imageindex=2

It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums
Discussion forums are magnets for some of the jerkiest people on the "Interwebs." We profile a dozen of the most common and annoying forum jerks -- from "The Antagonist" to "The Conspiracy Theorist."

"1. The FIRST! Guy

Maybe we should have saved this character for last, but our first offender is the FIRST! Guy -- the mental marsupial whose contribution to the great discussions of our online times is to post the first response to any given topic, consisting of the comment "FIRST!" Clever? No. Original? No. Ironically self-mocking in a postmodern deconstructionist kind of way? Uh, no. Puerile? Now you're getting close. And yet there seem to be multiple FIRST! Guy clones lurking around every forum, ready to share a very important message. Here's hoping that all of these Net nuisances find another source of personal pride by their 15th birthday.

2. The Self-Promoter

The Self-Promoter is a message board classic: This bore meanders across the Web, leaving thinly disguised comments designed to pimp his own project. Sometimes, he'll take a stab at making the promotion look incidental: "Man, that new iPhone software does look rad! You should check out my blog about Windows Mobile here!" But just as often, he'll ditch the preamble and launch straight into the link without even trying to tie it to the subject at hand.

Shameless self-promotion really is the worst -- especially when the shill has to stretch like Elastigirl to come up with a semi-plausible segue into the promo reference. The only thing that irks me more is behavioral ad targeting, which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago here.

3. The Sermonator

A close relative to the Self-Promoter, the Sermonator trolls various comment forums to find some way to divert the conversation to his favorite subject -- most often something related to morals, religion or a particular political view. No discussion is too interesting and no community too engaged for the Sermonator to subvert into a tedious homily on his topic of choice. Let's head out to the showroom for some real-world examples:

� Example #1: The author of a blog posting about an asteroid that came close to Earth stated that the incident was "like God threw a snowball at us and missed, but just barely." From this, a handful of commenters began a discussion that degenerated into a three-page debate over whether historical evidence could prove that Jesus was God.

� Example #2: A recent story of mine raised some privacy concerns about Google Latitude, the company's new mobile location tracking service. After concluding that my apprehensions stemmed from a general problem of dishonesty, one forum user took to the pulpit and lectured at great length about why the entire forum community should stop uttering even the littlest white lies. I would tell you that everyone found his contributions thought-provoking and useful, but that would be a not-so-little white lie.

4. Mr. Credentials

"As someone who has managed Windows-based systems for 15 years," Mr. Credentials weighs in with a predictable approach. First he encourages everyone to focus on his superior curriculum vitae, rather than on the objective reasonableness of his views. Then he'll launch into a 500-word essay designed to show just how well-versed he is on the subject at hand (or whatever subject he wants to talk about), overwhelming all resistance with the sheer force and volume of his hot air.

And in case his own credentials might be called into question at some point when he has paused to breathe, Mr. Credentials likes to cite his authorities by the bushel -- quoting them at length, and often adding further excerpts detailing his authorities' authorities. In fact, his messages are frequently more heavily weighted toward text from famous figures, user manuals or Wikipedia entries than toward his own original thoughts or opinions.

5. The Antagonizer

Comment forums are made for divergent viewpoints and intelligent, spirited debate. The Antagonizer, though, takes things to another, more primitive level, resorting to personal attacks and insults in what may be a nostalgic flashback to carefree bygone days as a third-grade bully.

"Do I even have to explain how stupid of a name Stefan is for a man?" one such person wrote on a popular tech blog's story about Apple's touch-screens. He went on to close his remarks with this jab: "I bet you shave your armpits." That's about as clever as the repartee gets in Antagonizer Land; more often the insights run along the lines of "You bleep!" "Bleep you!" "Bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep!" Proof positive that, online, it isn't difficult for a person to be both loud and boring.




******Okay...I can't go on because it's a slide show and annoying to cut and paste. Just go to the website. It's funny...because it's stupid and or somewhat true!

EDIT:found error

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FIRST!
what do puerile mean?

[Draz]

I post with a guy who is at least five of those miserable online personalities combined. Bible-thumping conspiracy theorist with a heavy dose of Fanboy, Smartie Pants, and Peacekeeper. I think it's his complete lack of personal insight and self-awareness that bothers me the most. If he read this he wouldn't see himself in it at all.

[Fishead soup]

You forget our favorite the Multi Nik sock trolls. They create multiple nicknames with the same account then flame other people with a parady of a person they obviously disagree with.

Some of these include


The Radical Muslim extremist
Allah o Akbah death to the infidel. Death to Isreal. Behead Behead Behead

The Anti Muslim American
Nuke Meeka

The Gay Muslim or The Gay Black Muslim member of NOI

The Nationalistic Korean that would like to see all foreign Teachers beheaded.

[sinsanri]

[Kikomom]

Mike Reed's been going at this for a while now... at least ten years that I can recall. I used to be one of his flame warriors, 'Issues'.
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/issues.htm

But I've calmed down some... around the time Wario went off to college.

[robot]

Poorly written and boring -- typical msn.com fare.

[Draz]

[the boy next door]

[agoodmouse]

[Guerciotti]

[MollyBloom]

[Enrico Palazzo]

[the boy next door]

[John_ESL_White]

I am definately one.

It's more of a sport/hobby than anything else.

trolling, baiting, fishing, whatever you want to call it, is fun. I mix in my worthless posts, like this, with some pretty informative stuff though, so I'm not 100% arsehole, just 90%.

You'd be amazed at how many people get mad when I type "The Canadia". Oh, and the Irish were pissed for weeks when I said their country was less developed than Korea.

just having fun... sorry )-;