What type of posts annoy you on this site?

[huckjai]

Just curious if any type of posts annoy you guys on this site?

For me, it's when people ask help to identify something, and send a picture with blue light only cranked to the max, and the picture is dark. It's like over 50% of the ID threads. Maybe it's just me and I can't filter out blue light or something.

 

[NinnJinn]

Just curious if any type of posts annoy you guys on this site?

For me, it's when people ask help to identify something, and send a picture with blue light only cranked to the max, and the picture is dark. It's like over 50% of the ID threads. Maybe it's just me and I can't filter out blue light or something.

Guess I am in your club. When I see one of those posts, I'm thinking "what am I looking for?"

 

[Gene Ashton]

I don’t like it when someone asks for advice on the forum and some know it all snubs the person asking and says,”go read up and don’t ask here!!”. I agree research is beneficial to us all but trial and error and personal experience is just as important.

 

[old salt reefer]

Just curious if any type of posts annoy you guys on this site?

For me, it's when people ask help to identify something, and send a picture with blue light only cranked to the max, and the picture is dark. It's like over 50% of the ID threads. Maybe it's just me and I can't filter out blue light or something.

Agreed, I'd have say that annoys me the most.

 

[Idoc]

Blue light pics!!!! It's not so much annoying, but I always think "ah man, now I gotta ask and wait for white light pics"!

 

[Idoc]

I don’t like it when someone asks for advice on the forum and some know it all snubs the person asking and says,”go read up and don’t ask here!!”. I agree research is beneficial to us all but trial and error and personal experience is just as important.

I can't say that I have ever encountered or seen that kind of response to someone's question on R2R. I've seen it on other forums, though.

 

[Paulie069]

I don’t like it when someone asks for advice on the forum and some know it all snubs the person asking and says,”go read up and don’t ask here!!”. I agree research is beneficial to us all but trial and error and personal experience is just as important.

I feel that getting advice from people that have already done something or knows something from experience is better and easier than looking it up in a book or article. But that’s just me because most often I don’t have time to sit and read a book. Plus u can’t ask a book questions about things you don’t understand. ( no such thing as a stupid question only a stupid answer)

 

[Humblefish]

Yeah, it's hard to see anything specific under blue lights. Whites only if you need disease or pest ID.

 

[Paulie069]

I feel that getting advice from people that have already done something or knows something from experience is better and easier than looking it up in a book or article. But that’s just me because most often I don’t have time to sit and read a book. Plus u can’t ask a book questions about things you don’t understand. ( no such thing as a stupid question only a stupid answer)

And if somebody says,,, don’t ask here they don’t belong here on this site,, from what I gather information and sharing is what R2R is supposed to be about. Or am I wrong

 

[ReefRy]

Posts that have nothing to do with reefing. I dont mean funny, good natured stuff or topics to spark random conversations, but rather when folks bring personal issues here. My reef is my getaway from reality, as I prefer this site to be. A place to learn, laugh occasionally, get new ideas, but definitely to let the outside world stay there.

 

[Paulie069]

Posts that have nothing to do with reefing. I dont mean funny, good natured stuff or topics to spark random conversations, but rather when folks bring personal issues here. My reef is my getaway from reality, as I prefer this site to be. A place to learn, laugh occasionally, get new ideas, but definitely to let the outside world stay there.

Ocean is my sanctuary

 

[huckjai]

Posts that have nothing to do with reefing. I dont mean funny, good natured stuff or topics to spark random conversations, but rather when folks bring personal issues here. My reef is my getaway from reality, as I prefer this site to be. A place to learn, laugh occasionally, get new ideas, but definitely to let the outside world stay there.

I think the lounge forum is for off topic stuff, no?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I hate when post leave no ending. What happened to the coral?! Did the fish make it to the end??

 

[ahiggins]

I agree with blue light pics. The other that get to me are the “what’s wrong with my tank” that have no pictures or parameters/details. The other is the super common hitch hikers like pineapple sponges and stomatella snails. The ones that you find a billion pictures/descriptions lol
I’ll help but at some point this in this hobby you have to do your own research and it seems super lazy to me to not do that. That being said, I probably did it when I was a newbie lol

 

[Sashaka]

I can't say that I have ever encountered or seen that kind of response to someone's question on R2R. I've seen it on other forums, though.

Unfortunately, I have seen it here, but I think when there are as many personalities as we have together here, there are going to be people who have patience for beginner questions and those who don't. There are going to be times when even the nicest person here has a bad day, when the experienced reefer who has given the same advice dozens of times is asked that same question just one time too many.

A quick story: I knew a colleague a few years ago who used sarcasm as a way to view the world and the people around her. It was her signature, her go to response for just about any situation. I always thought she was just a negative person who saw her cup as half empty rather than half full, who looked for the worst in people instead of the best, who enjoyed using her keen wit to lift herself up by putting others down...and then she committed suicide. When I looked at my colleague before her death, I saw only an absorbed narcissist who reveled at getting the best of people, and it was only after her death that I realize she was negative because she was so unhappy and COULD NOT see the good around her. The truth is we don't know what causes a person to respond negatively to another. A bad day, a bad moment, or a personal crisis. Anyone can spew negativity when patience is low and even lack of sleep can cause one to become irritable.

The trick, I guess, is to become conscious of our states of minds when posting to better battle those moments of weakness, those inner demons inside us all that can blind us from remembering we are responding to a real person with feelings as tender and/or defensive as our own would be if we were to be admonished for a perceived failure by another. We're human, but if we resist clicking "POST REPLY" when we're vexed and the content is written for our own satisfaction, and in no way benefits the OP, maybe our weak moments will go unnoticed? Sorry, I just realized I sound like my mother! All I really meant to say is... Do unto others...LOL

 

[reefluvrr]

Posts that corals are dying and ask for help without telling us their tank parameters 1st.....

 

[Dragon52]

When someone gives advice to a question that has been answered more than once here on R2R & someone else comes behind them & says you don't need to do that just do this, instead of saying here is another option that you can try.

 

[Terri Caton]

Anyone who is rude or just downright mean.

Newbies who ask the same question over and over. Do a search first!

 

[Sierra_Bravo]

Well, present thread certainly excluded, of course, (and the irony is not wasted on me about it) . . . but for me, it is posting pointless, meaningless poll questions for internet likes:

POLL: How many people here feed their fish?

POLL: Do your hermits live in shells?

POLL: What color is your favorite Yellow Tang? Explain in comments.


There. I said it. I feel better now.

 

[Stackrat]

The person that asks or tells us about their clowns that are hosting something?
I really wish people could get that one the right way round.