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Old Aug 24th 2009, 6:22 pm
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Originally Posted by Alan2005
I hope you thanked him.
Thank you for reminding me to thank him but I would thank you to kindly refrain from suggesting that I dont thank people for their contributions.

Yours with Thanks

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Old Aug 24th 2009, 6:27 pm
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Lets not forget that the Karma feature was enabled in part to stop the boards getting filled up with "Thanks", and "Great Idea" posts. Only you can see your karma, so its hard to know if someone posted there gratitude in a thread or not (but you are right, probably not...)

If you are not getting karma however, maybe what you are posting is not as helpful or funny as you think it is
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Old Aug 24th 2009, 6:31 pm
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Default Re: What gets your goat on BE?

Originally Posted by purple80

Agreed




Absolutely

People who forget that this is a forum for people whose common link is that they are or are hoping to are expats and not members of MENSA.

The fact that there is so much lack of patience for new members, the older ones appear to have forgotten what it is like to be new.

How spiteful this place gets at times despite the fact that this forum is allegedly for adults.

Despite all of that I still look in most days.............


[Grabs coat and makes a run for the door]
Asking silly questions about the immigration process is perfectly fine as that info isn't necessarily freely available over t'internet. Many other queries people throw on here are just lazy in my opinion. Whether they're new or not, it doesn't take much effort to research basic things like climate, housing, etc. If they can find this site, they can find those things.

Things that get my goat on here are people who decide to move to Canada so they can buy a bigger house and live in a crime / racist free country.

Oh, and the other thing is it's far too addictive. Harrumph

Edited to add: Thanks
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Nothing. I find BE interesting, amusing and informative. If a thread or post is not of interest to me I ignore them. If the overall content of the website really bugged me I wouldn't bother visiting.
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Old Aug 24th 2009, 6:46 pm
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Originally Posted by iaink
Lets not forget that the Karma feature was enabled in part to stop the boards getting filled up with "Thanks", and "Great Idea" posts. Only you can see your karma, so its hard to know if someone posted there gratitude in a thread or not (but you are right, probably not...)

If you are not getting karma however, maybe what you are posting is not as helpful or funny as you think it is
I blame the stupid mods for not letting us bait them spitefully. Take this iaink guy; he doesn't even know the difference between "it's" and "its"
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Old Aug 24th 2009, 6:50 pm
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(Its also their gratitude, not there gratitude, if you want to be picky )

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Have you been eavesdropping on my bedtime ritual AGAIN :curse::curse::curse:
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Old Aug 24th 2009, 6:55 pm
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy
Have you been eavesdropping on my bedtime ritual AGAIN :curse::curse::curse:
Thankfully, to paraphrase a famous Canadian "There is no place for moderators in the bedrooms of the forum nation"
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Originally Posted by Oink
Nothing. I find BE interesting, amusing and informative. If a thread or post is not of interest to me I ignore them. If the overall content of the website really bugged me I wouldn't bother visiting.
I agree ..
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Old Aug 24th 2009, 7:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Alan2005
I blame the stupid mods for not letting us bait them spitefully. Take this iaink guy; he doesn't even know the difference between "it's" and "its"
You, sir, are on fire..
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Originally Posted by Joe_Sleepy
You, sir, are on fire..
I'm all too aware that I'm not as funny as I think I am (although I can say that I am as helpful as I think I am as that isn't very)
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Originally Posted by Alan2005
I'm all too aware that I'm not as funny as I think I am (although I can say that I am as helpful as I think I am as that isn't very)
It made me laugh..
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BE Members who feel the need to answer a genuine thread with a stupid comment about paragraphing (see mouldy problem thread!!)
I bloody despair!!!
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Originally Posted by Big Stevo
BE Members who feel the need to answer a genuine thread with a stupid comment about paragraphing (see mouldy problem thread!!)
I bloody despair!!!
You know, I looked at that thread, and just could not be bothered to figure it out in the end. I didnt think anyone was particularly nasty... If it was broken up I might have made it to the end before giving up.

Somewhere in the advice for new posters it says (and I'm paraphrasing) make your post as clear and concise as possible in order to get the widest number of replies. So things like resisting text speak, and breaking long chunks of text up are probably a good idea.
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Nothing gets on my goat here, it used to but not anymore.
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