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JW · 06-08-2009, 05:26 PM

Found this today pretty funny and thought of a lot of people on here

http://tech.msn.com/products/slidesh...5651&GT1=40000

JW

LTb1ow · 06-08-2009, 05:28 PM

Bonzo!

The Moderator

Taking a slightly subtler approach to making visitors feel unwelcome, the Moderator maintains an air of superiority as he bunkers down each day on a particular site's comment section or message board for another 16-hour stint as archivist-in-residence. He's the cool kid -- the site vet who's been around for a long time and knows what's what. Leave a message that repeats something someone else said 16 months ago, and he'll let you know about it within minutes.

"Um, yeah, Newbie0314, we talked about that back when NeverTouchedAWoman24 brought the subject up last May. But thanks for contributing, lol."

Treating the forum as his own private gated community, the (self-appointed) Moderator seems to have adopted as his personal philosophy the Pythonesque commandment "Every thread is precious." To keep each discussion safe and pure, he will treat any commenter who has fewer than 200 messages to his name as an undocumented invader who doesn't deserve a spot on his beloved forum. All of this, we assume, from the comfort of his parents' basement.

cdacda13 · 06-08-2009, 05:38 PM

1st!

sweetbmxrider · 06-08-2009, 06:59 PM

9. BiGals

The BiGals defends a particular product under any circumstances, no matter what the scenario. He is fervently aware that the Hummer was an excellent hummer as long you avoided driving it. He also assumes that anyone who fails to praise said product to the skies must be engaged in an irrational vendetta against it -- in effect, he sees everyone who isn't a BiGals as an Anti-BiGals.

The most common BiGals tendency is to worship either something (or everything) GM-related or something (or everything) Chevy-related. One unmistakable sign that you're dealing with a BiGals of this kind -- and not with just an enthusiast -- is that, even though the object of his veneration is ultimately a product for sale, he somehow manages to subordinate technological and monetary considerations to moral imperatives.

Knipps · 06-08-2009, 07:15 PM

Lame.

BigAls87Z28 · 06-08-2009, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider

9. BiGals

The BiGals defends a particular product under any circumstances, no matter what the scenario. He is fervently aware that the Hummer was an excellent hummer as long you avoided driving it. He also assumes that anyone who fails to praise said product to the skies must be engaged in an irrational vendetta against it -- in effect, he sees everyone who isn't a BiGals as an Anti-BiGals.

The most common BiGals tendency is to worship either something (or everything) GM-related or something (or everything) Chevy-related. One unmistakable sign that you're dealing with a BiGals of this kind -- and not with just an enthusiast -- is that, even though the object of his veneration is ultimately a product for sale, he somehow manages to subordinate technological and monetary considerations to moral imperatives.

Suck on it.
I hate hummer.

sweetbmxrider · 06-08-2009, 08:12 PM

hahahahah

NastyEllEssWon · 06-08-2009, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

Suck on it.
I hate hummer.

he can say that now theyre no longer part of gm. id hate to see the words he has about saturn.

Blacdout96 · 06-09-2009, 09:12 AM

Sweet, I'm 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.

Blacdout96 · 06-09-2009, 09:16 AM

And CBRRmike is:

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.

"DOS 3.0 was not around in 1985," an actual comment from Digg reads, referring to a story that mentioned various points of computer history. "I bought my Tandy 1000 in 1987 and it came with DOS 2.11."

DOS 3.0 actually came out in 1984. This gomer, it would seem, simply got ripped off late-'80s style. But as you introduce a Smarty Pants to his richly deserved comeuppance, you can't help noticing that you have just increased the online population of this particular scourge by one.

5.7TA · 06-09-2009, 09:36 AM

This site is hilarious...

NastyEllEssWon · 06-09-2009, 12:53 PM

wow i just read the whole thing through. i agree. bigal is deff a Fanboy. woot.

i actually seem to be a good mix between the self-promoter and the antagonist

edit: actually i should be called a pic whore

WildBillyT · 06-09-2009, 04:15 PM

Good, but incomplete.

We would add:

Monster sig pic guy - complete with electronic billboard of insecurity!

Sig-has-cars-I-don't-own guy - complete with what his dad/uncle owned in '74

The Parrot - Repeating things that he has no experience with

LTb1ow · 06-09-2009, 04:16 PM

And thread ruiner!

NastyEllEssWon · 06-09-2009, 04:27 PM

that would be troll. everyone knows the trolls

sweetbmxrider · 06-09-2009, 05:18 PM

ahhhahaha

BigAls87Z28 · 06-09-2009, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NastyEllEssWon

he can say that now theyre no longer part of gm. id hate to see the words he has about saturn.

I will actually rephrase my statement.
What GM did with Hummer was poor, they made bad moves and turned it into a big cartoon.
Saturn is a great brand, with tons of potential. GM care of Chevy **** on Saturn and squandered its Anti-GM approach.

Again, there are a million things I cant stand about GM. But when people like yourself spew stupid ********, just showing your own bias, I will step in to correct you.
If you dont like the car, then so be it. But you just come up with nonsense...

NJ346 · 06-09-2009, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

I will actually rephrase my statement.
What GM did with Hummer was poor, they made bad moves and turned it into a big cartoon.
Saturn is a great brand, with tons of potential. GM care of Chevy **** on Saturn and squandered its Anti-GM approach.

Again, there are a million things I cant stand about GM. But when people like yourself spew stupid ********, just showing your own bias, I will step in to correct you.
If you dont like the car, then so be it. But you just come up with nonsense...

I will play the role of the antagonist now:

Watch the language...can't we all get along?