OMGoodness I must just drive you gals freakin' :crazy: CRAZY :crazy:

^^No, not at all! Once I started to "get" your sense of humor, I began to find you quite endearing. :)

the all caps..screeming is definately a biggie of mine...

also people who feel the need to type in a god awful darn near impossible color to read on a white screen...it makes my eyes hurt.

and then for this site..people who ask for advice but then get defensive and upset when you give them legitimate, non critical advice???? trust me i'm hear to help but please don't get mad at me for my opinion.

I'm a grammar freak, so I've found that a few things tend to bug me on forums:

-- No capitalization or punctuation in sentences (or both of these things in wrong places)

-- When people misuse homonyms (to, too and two / their, there and they're / site, sight, etc.)

-- When people abbreviate common words (u instead of you / ur instead of you are / y instead of why, etc.)

Those are my big ones. :) Then again, I'm an English major...so it makes sense that it bugs me. I'm not completely perfect in all of those categories, but I do my best to be!

lol at azure. all my......'s must annoy you then.

I have to go along with the grammar people. It truly drives me insane. I have become an editor to just about everyone I know, because apparently I am the only one who knows what a comma is. Holding shift while typing "i" isn't hard. Your does not equal you're. U will never be you. Periods are good for you. They help readers not go insane when they attempt reading your run-on sentences. A lot of people spell a lot incorrectly. TyPiNg Lyk DiS means you need to go far, far away from me for your own health. If you want to axe me something, don't be surprised if I start running, because I don't want to die. Iraq has nothing to do with racks, and Iran isn't a place you run to...if you are going to talk about it, know how to.

We all have a typo every now and then, it's not a crime. But if you catch it before you post, they made the delete button for a reason...it's not just a decoration. Beautiful though it may be.

I feel better now. :)

Ahhh, I can relate to so many of these peeves. What bothers me are the people who have numerous misspellings and even improper grammar and don't bother to do a simple spell check in another program, such as Microsoft Word or their mail program that has spell check. What's so hard about that? It takes only a few more seconds out of your time. You then simply copy and paste and there you have it! Now you don't look uneducated!

Your vs. you're is a biggie for me and everything azure said. Who vs. whom. Lose vs. loose is also a biggie, especially on this site because we're talking about losing weight! What's up with saying pregnate when you mean pregnant? WTF?

My pet peeve isn't really found in an online forum, but more of an email phenomenon. I dislike it when someone asks for my email address (thinking they actually intend to use it to communicate), and they start sending me random email forwards about angels, or predictions that only come true if I forward to half of my graduating class, or various other forms of internet lore. I usually reply to these emails with a link to an urban-legends page that debunks it.

Another pet peeve is when someone uses the TO: or CC: field instead of the BCC: field when sending out emails to a large group.

Oh! Another pet peeve: when people quote someone else's words and don't cite a source (even if it's just '--author unknown').

Gosh, you've hit just about all of mine! :) I especially hate it when a whole post is one long paragraph - my eyes just can't track after 4 or 5 sentences. :lol:

I've worked as a technical editor, so I tend to be kind of harsh about grammar and spelling errors (although I do understand the occasional typo, as even I am guilty of that when typing quickly).

Something I get bugged by a lot at work is that people tend to not understand the difference between "personal" and "personnel."

Also, people seem to think every plural acronym requires an apostrophe before the s. It doesn't. It actually rarely does.

Another one that is work related for me: I recently reviewed two candidate resumes where all numbers were spelled out. Only numbers up to ten should be spelled out; seeing "processed sixty thousand applications" or "performed fifteen hundred actions" just makes me wonder why you would want to do all that extra typing.

In addition to the "loose/lose" issue, I roll my eyes when I see people use "weight" instead of "weigh." I do not "weight" myself on the scale. I did not "weight" more today than yesterday. Oh, and no one EVER "weighted" any amount of pounds, nor did they "weighted" themselves earlier today!

Sandwich. It's one of the simplest words to spell, yet people seem to resort to baby talk ("sammich") or add extra letters ("sandwhich," "sandwitch"), making the word more complicated than it really is.

I've also encountered some people (moreso in real life, not online) who call any long sentence a run-on sentence. It's just incorrect. I could probably write a 100-word sentence and have it be grammatically correct. It would be long, but just because it's long does not make it a run-on. A run-on occurs when appropriate punctuation is missing, not simply due to high word count.

A HUGE peeve for me on these boards is people who respond to a thread without having read all the other responses in the thread. They often repeat the same things that have already been said, or they ask questions that have already been answered. I've repeated information in a thread before, but I always do so by including a simple phrase like, "as someone mentioned earlier..."

I'll stop now :^:

Jill, that's interesting about only writing numbers up to 10. I'm just wondering if that is one of those spelling and grammar things that's different between the US and here, because it was drilled into me that all numbers under a hundred should be written out and over a hundred numerals can and should be used. That's something that's rigidly enforced at work - I work for an insurance company - with the only exception being if we're referring to a particular section of the policy wording, ie section 2F.

PHANTASTICA I have personally sent multitudes to **** for not forwarding e-mails...sorry guys! ;)

I am guilty of most of what you are all talking about. In my behalf, I type so slow :snail: that as I am doing it I don't feel the need for commas.

I do allow myself "so many per post" though, so I kind of just throw them in at random....kind of like multiple choice...some will be correct.

My grammar totally annoys my Language Arts teacher wife ;)

Especially when I say..."I ain't got no fill in the blank.

I have lots of online pet peeves. Some have to do with this forum, and some with other things, such as email, MySpace, etc.

~People who use colored fonts like yellow, or baby pink on the white background, and you bust a blood vessel trying to read their typing.

~People who email, or send me MySpace bulletins that are forwards that I don't give a rat's behind about-such as chain letters, poems, or something that has FW: in the title seven times already. Hey you out there-I don't read these! They go straight into the trash section of my email! :lol:

~Lose/Loose. This one, I have to admit, came from this forum. You want to LOSE weight, so your clothes will be LOOSE! ;)

~People on forums who have signatures that are a foot long. There is nothing wrong with having a signature, or a weight tracker, etc. but if you have uploaded 7 pictures of your kids, 3 of your cats, and have your name in glitter graphics on top...it's simply TOO MUCH. :lol: A lot of people still have dial up internet service, and I know that it takes their pages a lot longer to load when people do this as well.

~Spammers and phishers in my email. Apparently my eBay account has been hijacked-every single day, my account has been suspended at such-and-such bank where I don't even have an account, and I can get Viagra at an online pharmacy with no prescription. :rofl:

~eBay sellers who don't give you positive feedback right away when you pay. They wait until they see what feedback you are going to leave THEM first, and then give it. I think you should get positive feedback for paying promptly, as you should. If they don't mail your package for 3 weeks, or send you an item that isn't as promised, they shouldn't be able to hold feedback over your head.

~Trolls.

~People who start 7 threads on the same thing, instead of looking around to see if there is a thread on it already before they do.

~Slutty/trashy MySpace pages...

~People who type with the caps lock on, so that it is in all capitals...or on here, where they do that and it ends up like so:

Hi Everyone, How Are You All Today?

The first letter ends up in all caps, and it is really annoying.

~On the opposite end of that...people who don't capitalize ANYTHING.

I have more, but I'll stop. :lol:

Aphil! Ditto on the signature thing. Glitter Graphics - 'nuff said!

I actually hurt my moms feelings because when I finally couldn't take any more of her email forwards I sent her a link to thanksno.com
This site cracks me up, a nice polite but sarcastic request to never forward me anything again. I do hate them so.

I also hate music on any website- when I accidentally click on your myspace and some rap song about being a pimp or some country song about your divorce just starts playing out of nowhere I want to scream.

Giant Glitter names should be banned. :)