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Current Pet Peeve
Apr. 2nd, 2010 07:34 pmLets say that someone sees something they take issue with on page two out of ten of a forum thread, or comment three out of twenty on a article. Should they A) read further to see if it has already been answered? Or B) immediately post their response and end up looking like an idiot?
I encountered one case today where one person posted five times in a row while getting caught up on a thread and their last post was along the lines of "Oh, I see that this has already been dealt with. Please disregard my preceding angry comments." Of course, this sort of thing is just compounded in situations like this one where there is a slightly misleading headline and (apparently) a lot of people who can't be bothered to actually read the article.
Only tangentially related: that article shows how primitive and prevalent web-spiders actually are, when improving the handling of 404 errors results in "We dropped our outgoing bandwidth by about 66% and our load average on our web server cluster by about 50% after implementing that change"
I encountered one case today where one person posted five times in a row while getting caught up on a thread and their last post was along the lines of "Oh, I see that this has already been dealt with. Please disregard my preceding angry comments." Of course, this sort of thing is just compounded in situations like this one where there is a slightly misleading headline and (apparently) a lot of people who can't be bothered to actually read the article.
Only tangentially related: that article shows how primitive and prevalent web-spiders actually are, when improving the handling of 404 errors results in "We dropped our outgoing bandwidth by about 66% and our load average on our web server cluster by about 50% after implementing that change"
