some internet users are just totally freakin stupid

realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

Unfortunately, none of these users know they're asstards. Instead, they all publicly complain that the forums are buggy.
Time and time again i tell them that I didn't write the forums, and theres no bugs in the basic functionality

Internet trolls are ten times worse when it's a local website.
 

I need to find a graphic of a retarded guy/girl with a couple of hand puppets.
It will help me express myself.
 

YellowRose

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Originally posted by: jntdesign
realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

And I guess you were born with the full knowledge of everything. Pity others have to do it the hard way and learn it.

 

Actaeon

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Dec 28, 2000
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Originally posted by: YellowRose
Originally posted by: jntdesign
realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

And I guess you were born with the full knowledge of everything. Pity others have to do it the hard way and learn it.

Most of it is common sense. If people would actually TRY and READ instructions, they could probally figure out 99% of the stuff out.

Hes right, they are idiots.
 

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Lifer
Apr 14, 2001
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Originally posted by: YellowRose
Originally posted by: jntdesign
realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

And I guess you were born with the full knowledge of everything. Pity others have to do it the hard way and learn it.

do you use Outlook or Outlook Express ..perchance..?
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: YellowRose
Originally posted by: jntdesign
realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

And I guess you were born with the full knowledge of everything. Pity others have to do it the hard way and learn it.

Uh... did you need to have your hand held to learn how to use these forums? I have the same problem jntdesign has, except I manage a website that is used almost exclusively by people over the age of 50. I gave up on the forums altogether, but they still don't understand how to get to the staff section of the site (www.domain.org/staff) without a link.
rolleye.gif
 

Cyberian

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Originally posted by: YellowRose
Originally posted by: jntdesign
realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

And I guess you were born with the full knowledge of everything. Pity others have to do it the hard way and learn it.
I understand your opinion on this, but the entire PM procedure is spelled out quite well in the "Help" section at the top of this page.
 

Kadarin

Lifer
Nov 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: YellowRose
Originally posted by: jntdesign
realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

And I guess you were born with the full knowledge of everything. Pity others have to do it the hard way and learn it.

There's a big difference between not knowing how to do something, and being too stupid to figure it out when simple instructions are clearly available.
 

heres some more detail, one user INSISTS that the private message system doesn't work at all.
He complains about it, and compares the site to yahoo every chance he gets. He solicits to other members saying "use yahoo, cuz these so called 'forums' are worthless"

another coknocker emails me every other day complaining about the thread subscription emails. He even claims that he didn't subscribe.
I login as him, remove the subscriptions...send him a detailed set of instructions on how to unsubscribe AND how to subscribe - but he still can't figure it out.

then the two get together, have their own little circlejerk in the "website complains/suggestions" category and make a public mockery of me.
they stoop as low as commenting on topics i've voiced my opinion on.
"maybe if the webmaster hadn't made that post in the 'Movie game' topic he could fix his website"

just wanna kick em in the front of the butt
 

Eli

Super Moderator | Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Actaeon
Originally posted by: YellowRose
Originally posted by: jntdesign
realllly gettin pissed here..

I'm the webmaster (just a freakin title) of a newspaper website, we run fusetalk forums - just like these (hey, they rock)
Theres a few stupid assed users who can't:
- figure out the Private Message system
- figure out the topic subscription scheme
- figure out how to change their password

And I guess you were born with the full knowledge of everything. Pity others have to do it the hard way and learn it.

Most of it is common sense. If people would actually TRY and READ instructions, they could probally figure out 99% of the stuff out.

Hes right, they are idiots.
Do you work for the Department of Redundancy Department? :p
 

Originally posted by: YellowRose
Look quit complaining. Just consider it job security.

Job security?
Stupid users who drag my name through the mud because they Can't Uunderstand Normal Thinking doesn't give me job security.
 

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Lifer
May 3, 2000
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Originally posted by: jntdesign
heres some more detail, one user INSISTS that the private message system doesn't work at all.
He complains about it, and compares the site to yahoo every chance he gets. He solicits to other members saying "use yahoo, cuz these so called 'forums' are worthless"

another coknocker emails me every other day complaining about the thread subscription emails. He even claims that he didn't subscribe.
I login as him, remove the subscriptions...send him a detailed set of instructions on how to unsubscribe AND how to subscribe - but he still can't figure it out.

then the two get together, have their own little circlejerk in the "website complains/suggestions" category and make a public mockery of me.
they stoop as low as commenting on topics i've voiced my opinion on.
"maybe if the webmaster hadn't made that post in the 'Movie game' topic he could fix his website"

just wanna kick em in the front of the butt

Reason #1 why the mods on this forum are anonymous.
 

MaxDepth

Diamond Member
Jun 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: jntdesign
Originally posted by: YellowRose
Look quit complaining. Just consider it job security.

Job security?
Stupid users who drag my name through the mud because they Can't Uunderstand Normal Thinking doesn't give me job security.

dork fight!


/me pulls out the lawn chair from the garage.

Who's making popcorn this time?
 

Amorphus

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Mar 31, 2003
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Mods here have a ban button. I assume you do too. Publicly post that they are stupid and deserve to be banned because they can't take their head out of their butts and look.
 

Rapidskies

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LOL LOL LOL I KNOWS WHAT YOU MEAN WITH THE STUPED USERS I CANT BELEIVE SOME THINGS PEOPLE DO LOL LOL LOL
 

i'd love to ban them, but remember this is a local site, with local users
the users that are incompetent happen to use the #1 ISP in the area that uses DHCP

I can always modify the forums and plant a BAN cookie on their machine - they'd never figure that out :D
 

AgaBoogaBoo

Lifer
Feb 16, 2003
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Originally posted by: MaxDepth
Originally posted by: jntdesign
Originally posted by: YellowRose
Look quit complaining. Just consider it job security.

Job security?
Stupid users who drag my name through the mud because they Can't Uunderstand Normal Thinking doesn't give me job security.

dork fight!


/me pulls out the lawn chair from the garage.

Who's making popcorn this time?

I got teh popcorn and three more lawn chairs for anyone else who wants to fight.