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So I Am Really Ticked Off | Articles of Debatable Importance

I Hate You

If you have ever done any of the following:

• Posted "Sorry, nothing containing 'so-and-so' was found. Please try again." because you think it proves that the user or pet being discussed never existed and the OP is spreading lies.
• Tried to form a guerrilla resistance against staff.
• Tried to form a vigilante force against spammers, scammers, or whoever you don't like on your preferred board.
• Asked why TNT made an arbitrary decision as if we have any idea.
• Tried to argue about something you haven't a clue about (cookie grabbers, advertising and marketing, maths, sociology, etc.)
• Said:
  • PIN Number
  • The TNT
  • Or any other redundancy.
• Acknowledged that what you're requesting is against the rules but requested it anyway.
• Posted an extremely short topic title that tells nothing at all, expecting anyone to care enough to open your thread to see if they even care to help you. You get eighty characters. You can ask your question in the topic title. Geez.
• Told an obviously purposeful spammer that they are out of bounds as if they care a bit.
• Asked anything along the lines of: Why are HCers . . .
  • . . . so mean/snarky/sarcastic?
  • . . . so unhelpful?
  • . . . so slow?
  • . . . so blunt?
  • . . . so strict?
• Said anything about how Neopets is for small children and anyone with more than a digit in their age who's on Neopets must be some creeper sort.
• Started ranting about:
  • Adam and Donna having no involvement in the site anymore
  • The Dohring investment
  • The Viacom buyout
  • The corporate-level name change to NeoStudios
  • The layout change
  • The [latest] pet redraws
  • The NC Mall
  as though they happened yesterday and really affect you at all.
• Alluded to the fact that you have been here since before Neopets was even called Neopets, were on first-name bases with staff, and owned pets that no longer exist, on a thread about "BAWWWWWW I MISS THE OLD NEOPETS" (but of course you lost your account).
• Started such a thread.
• Acted as if the Viacom buyout changes anything on a level which affects us that greatly, attributing every little site development you don't like to "The Viacom Team" and going on about how "the old TNT" would never do things like this as if they were all replaced by evil, greedy Viacom drones.
• Posted a thread asking about an issue which is already holding the full attention of the HC.
• Posted a thread along the lines of:
  • What's with all the spam today?
  • What's with all the questions about * today?

  And especially:

  • What's with all the boards about "What's with all the boards about * today?" today?

  And further nesting thereof.

• Rejected someone's argument on the basis of poor English.
  • Especially if yours is worse.
• Created a web page . . .
  • . . . consisting entirely of a huge, superfluous image and a three-inch-wide div with all the actual content squeezed into it.
  • . . . containing tons of flashy (or flashing) images.
• Put music on that web page.
• Asked something stupid like "Will you code a layout for me?" and become angry when no one answered.
• Not realized why that's a stupid question.
• Overused
• Called a stranger 'hon', 'dear', etc.
• Argued that Mac OS is the best ever and is absolutely, inherently impervious to malware or penetration of any kind.
• Rejected GIMP because it's "too hard to use".
• Screamed that a website is a cookie grabber even though you have no idea whether it is (and obviously don't know that it's extremely improbable anyway because staff have more likely than not patched all known XSS exploits given this site's popularity for such attacks, and that it's a rare browser that's affected by such things anymore).
• Asked what a warning, suspension, or freezing message means when it's perfectly obvious, then suddenly 'getting it' when we do nothing more than parrot it back at you.
• OH MY GOD HELP I'M BEING LOGGED OUT OF MY ACCOUNT I'VE BEEN CGED WHADDOIDO
• I know this isn't Neo-related, but . . .
• Bragged that you are a Juggalo.
• Used "The Viacom Team" seriously.
• Used ". . . un".
• Posted a thread about what makes one an elite Neopian, requesting a list of 'famous HCers', etc.
• Asked to link to this or any page.
  Yes, you can link back. It's your web page.
  Stop asking stupid questions.
• Started a "x ways to get kicked out of Wherever/annoy people in the whatever" thread.
• Failed to shut up about the latest teen literary or musical craze.
• Read the book before you saw the movie adaptation of it and complained incessantly about the discrepancies.
• Thought you were better than anyone because you aren't on the latest bandwagon. Conforming to nonconformity is still conformity.
• Said:
  • No offense, as if you care whether you offend anyone.
  • [No] pun intended, as if we couldn't see the pun and you didn't strain to make it fit.

  [more later]

• Posted:
  • Reported!
  • Anything about Iceland.
  • You were scammed, not hacked -- because this really helps, right?

  [more later, and I'll reorganize things like this sometime]

• Tried to be concise, cryptic, or coy, but ended up being completely unintelligible.
• Complained that my font is unreadable. If you can't differentiate between red and grey you're all jacked up, and if you've got font effects disabled you should expect things like this.

  Yes, I thought of colorblind people. If you're colorblind to such a degree that you see no color difference at all, you should still be able to notice within two posts what text is always there and what text changes, and figure out what you should bother reading. It's never that hard.

• Created a waiting thread for something several hours away.
• Created a series of them.
• Kissed up to a well-known poster (as though that means anything really) and actually become excited when they replied to you.
• Been sycophantic at all.
• Been jealous of anyone with a swarm of sycophants trailing them.
• Used chan memes (lost The Game, 'fail', mudkips, moar cowbell, etc.) on Neopets.

  If it has reached Neopets it is no longer fit for human consumption.

• Started a thread with "So yeah . . ."
• Created a font testing thread.

  Look at this:

  

  Duh.

• Used OOC outside of the RPC. No, it isn't that ingrained. We know you're just trying to subtly indicate that you're an RPer. No one cares.
• Said "carrot tags". These are angled brackets: < >
  These are square brackets: [ ]
  These are braces: { }
  These are parentheses: ( )
  None of them are tags of any sort. A tag is an HTML element, such as or
• Thought you were home free because you don't meet any of the above conditions.

I hate you all and when Point-to-Point Punching over Ethernet is available I will make use of it on you.

I also hate the server-side flood control but it's nothing you did.