I’ve actually seen posts where the OP will say “the title was intended as click bait, lol.” I slowly back away from those. I don’t like being manipulated.
Threads where the OP puts in a ton of time and effort to compile really useful information, then a poster complains because they didn’t do enough / didn’t consider some variation of the data.
Ok, posters who insist certain U’s or types are so left leaning that they must be about to fall over. I wonder what perspective this is, they read it somewhere?
Do they not realize these admins, adcoms and faculty aren’t living in the hippie bus? They’re normal folks of all stripes, with mortgages, kids, events, etc.
Part two: even to make this sort of insistent generalization that liberal means left- and something to be feared- is just not savvy. Certainly not the sort of savvy those schools want.
@lookingforward do you really want to go “there” on this thread? I could type many responses to each of your questions/assertions but figure it will just end in a bunch of deleted posts and doesn’t belong here.
@lookingforward is just describing threads that she finds annoying. Where do you suggest that it be posted @Consolation ?
@carolinamom2boys I think you mean me and not @Consolation, The first sentence was descriptive but then the post goes on to ask questions, which to me invite responses. I guess I’ll just take them as “rhetorical” questions, i.e., to make a point rather than to solicit an answer.
Sorry @Corinthian
I’ll go a little bit deeper than @carolinamom2boys and mention the occasional thread where posters don’t commit the sin of labeling the vast majority of colleges with a single sociopolitical label, but do feel free to make such generalizations about students and/or faculty in certain fields (quite often couched in asking what major they’d feel more “comfortable” in).
Sorry, folks, I’m a professor in one of the fields frequently named in these lists, and the reality doesn’t so much match the perception, either in my field or others. But just try to calmly mention that on one of those threads…
Any post using the words “snowflake” or “flyover country”. Wish they could be banished like the T word.
Any thread where a new poster introduces themselves by saying their kid “needs” to bump up her 31 ACT score and literally 7 people chime in about their NMF kids and I am tempted to post …
Welcome @ I am part of the “keeping it real” contingent. My DD will be scrambling for admission to Podunk University for the criminally unable to compete slackers in their class’s 11.7th % with mediocre SAT/ACT scores and GPAs (1170/25, after first sittings, 3.6 uwGPA/4.36 wGPA on a 4.0 scale) where we be paying entirely out of pocket because there will be little to no merit $$$ for kids with her stats. :)) 
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Class-baiting threads.
Threads where the OP states a reasonable amount of information to describe their situation. Various people respond ignoring some of that relevant information. OP comes back and restates the relevant information that has been ignored and posters complain that OP should have said that in the first place.
I have to laugh when I see an 8th grader responding to a chance me thread. You really think you can tell a junior or senior the chances of getting into a certain school with full confidence? I think that’s quite humorous.
^^ I agree, but think that it’s not too different from a 17 year old, looking at the same data and the same admissions data, and making the same predictions. I have no patience at all for “Chance me” threads in general, unless the person answering has some real experience with admissions to that school.
@bjkmom I’d even go so far to say recent experience with admissions. For some schools, even data from 4 years ago is dated.
I’ll go one better - there’s a 7th grader doing the same thing. 
For some schools, particularly with testing requirements/recommendations, last year’s info is dated.
Speaking of adolescents…
There is a particular 9th grader out there who has called me out on wisdom and life experience. Mostly because of a grammatical error.
ETA: I’m 50
Anyone have an official count on the annoying “if you make $X amount you are rich and privileged, no matter where you live or what the circumstances” threads?
Too many to count in my estimation.
And I quickly found a grammatical error in one of his posts and called HIM out for it! Whenever I see someone criticize another poster for grammar, I look at his or her posting history and ALWAYS find at least one error. 
I know you’ve always got my back @MaineLonghorn !!!