The Jerks of Online Forums

[dans]

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.



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Which one are you?

[-MAKAVELLI-]

this is me

7. Peacekeeper

Another long-standing character common to forums is the Peacekeeper. This guy has been a regular at a particular site as long as the proprietor, but his goal as a participant has somehow devolved from saying something interesting to keeping the peace -- and he has no problem peppering every thread with his efforts to intervene as Mr. Manners.

"Hey now, that's not appropriate," he may say. Or, "Let's watch the language, OK?"

Though the Peacekeeper's intentions are good, his actions end up clogging the forum with pages of useless and often long-winded discussions of propriety that are every bit as annoying as the attacks themselves. Worse, unlike the Antagonizer's antics, the Peacekeeper's contributions can be virtually impossible to silence, even if you're the site's moderator. After all, how do you tactfully tell a guy to stop pacifying?

[dans]

this is me

As long as the purple and gold are winning right?

[ЯiZО]

this is me

Bull****.



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[D-MiZe]

Bull****.



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Troll..

[ЯiZО]

Troll..

We could be playing L4D right now.

[dans]

I can't decide what I am.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

As long as the purple and gold are winning right?

two more!!!!!!!!!

Bull****.



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please watch your language....that vulgarity is not necessary....*****

[Horus]

Horus

Smarty Pants

If the Peacekeeper is on a search-and-destroy mission against offensive content, the Smarty Pants' goal is to find and expose inaccuracies -- no matter how insignificant -- solely as a means to demonstrate his intellectual superiority. A Smarty Pants constantly runs a fine-toothed comb through both a site's original articles and its comments in search of nits to pick: factual errors, grammatical errors, typos -- it doesn't matter. The instant he finds one, he pounces on the offending poster, thrashing him with the wet capellini of his erudition.

Some of these hair-splitters will spend their days doing the spadework necessary to prove a minor mistake in someone else's words. The most obnoxious -- and yet most grimly satisfying -- kind of Smarty Pants, though, is the one who bases his corrections on his own "infallible" knowledge base. He might, for example, summon his Univac-like powers of recall to dispute an author's mention of when a particular piece of software came out.

[AssasinKing]

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Would of said same for me...out of the options lol