<p>And any friend that starts with “my friend has this problem…”.</p>
<p>It frustrates me when WE are asked to generate a list of colleges for someone else. I mean, obviously you aren’t that committed to researching schools if you want some strangers online to do it.</p>
<p>I don’t mind when a person says “a school like X but more a match than a reach.”</p>
<p>I enjoy some of the shopping threads and traveling ones.</p>
<p>I back off from “My perfect snowflake has 2400, state champion of X, etc., do you think he/she has a chance at Y?”</p>
<p>Also, “My snowflake was so mature at 17 he/she chose the perfect school, full merit $, and everyone should do as he/she did”. This annoys me, as my life and son’s have so many ups and downs.</p>
<p>@garland - I will explain the Methadone thread to you since I started it. Now and then you get posting on a thread that is just going in circles and had passed the point of a real discussion or exchange of ideas and opinions and you need to just step away and not go there for another “fix” of whatever it is. If I recall correctly my “drug of choice” at the time might have been a thread about the sorority girl thing of making bedazzled coolers full of booze to take to out of town fraternity formals. I suppose it’s the urge to get the last word or make the point in a way that will be so definitive that the issue will be instantly settled. Of course that never happens so it just goes back and forth. Sometimes people have just one participant with home they never see eye to eye on any topic ever and when that poster jumps in their blood pressure goes up and they want to say something snarky. Who needs that really? So, if you can’t just walk away and don’t have a personal sponsor to call the next best thing is the Methadone thread where you can engage in some much needed self talk to step back in off the ledge.</p>
<p>If you don’t get it and don’t need it just ignore it. It isn’t supposed to make sense to anyone but the poster. Now and again two people will recognize that they’ve run screaming from the same thread so there could be a quick wink and nod, but usually not. </p>
<p>I like the methadone thread and I like the Say it here thread. Both have probably saved me from homicide at some point!</p>
<p>This isn’t a thread but I HATE when someone starts a thread and explains something in detail and then a page later someone comments on it but clearly hasn’t read the first post so the OP has to keep going back and reiterating details. Don’t comment if you haven’t read it!</p>
<p>Saintfan–sorry, didn’t mean to denigrate your thread. For whatever reason, whenever I’ve looked at, I’ve found those knowing raised eyebrows at each other wink wink nod nod conversations going on, and it just seemed off-putting, like an in-group kind of thing. I understand it wasn’t meant to be that. </p>
<p>But to add–this thread asked a question, so I answered it. I don’t expect that what annoys me annoys anyone else necessarily, and I also expect we all mostly share that expectation (or lack of).</p>
<p>No offense taken at all (wink wink 
)</p>
<p>To use one of my BIL’s sayings, to actually try to read the Methadone thread is just sniffing someone else’s exhaust.</p>
<p>LOL. I should probably spend MORE time on the methadone thread. B-) </p>
<p>BTW, in case you read this Emeraldkty, your current thread about organic food is NOT the kind of “worth it” thread I was thinking of! :)</p>
<p>Lol! We all need to have thick skin to read this thread but I think we can handle it! As I’m reading other’s comments, I’m thinking “Wait! I’ve done that! Oh oh! I’m annoying!!!”</p>
<p>I like the " Say it here " thread because I like to rant anonymously and a;so like to see other rants because it makes me feel like I am not the only one who gets a release . In the real world, a lot of us have to button our lips and sit on our hands, so rock on and let it rip !</p>
<p>The most annoying threads to me are the parents’ thread that get hijacked by high-school trolls. I don’t see parents going on the High School Life threads to antagonize kids.</p>
<p>Annoying to the extreme …</p>
<p>The one school trolls
Threads about discrimination against … ORM
People repeating very bad advice based on ONE anecdote and one kid
Brand new posters who start immediately to challenge long established consensus and common sense
Threads by obvious business trolls and phishers
The deep intellectualism in college for teenagers</p>
<p>and multi ID posters </p>
<p>and the worst posts but not threads? The ones trying to convince us that hundreds of imaginary friends and COUSINS are automatically relevant to the discussion and real for that matter. </p>
<p>I hate discussions about “prestige” and rankings. They tend to be uninformed and an example of how we are drawn to focus on small effects, as in the difference in relative prestige or ranking means very little in life. </p>
<p>I don’t mind “chance me” threads but I think they’re silly given the Common App. If you want to apply, just do it. Some unknown person’s off the cuff opinion has no value.</p>
<p>I groaned & shut the thread by the int’l kid who wanted a school w generous FA, near a decent ski resort.</p>
<p>" and the worst posts but not threads? The ones trying to convince us that hundreds of imaginary friends and COUSINS are automatically relevant to the discussion and real for that matter."</p>
<p>Can concur with that one…</p>
<p>As far as threads, I also concur with people who have said the threads started by people who either don’t come back to them, or take DAYS to come back and respond. If you don’t have the time to respond to posts, don’t start a freaking thread. Also threads where people aren’t actually soliciting opinions and advice, but where they are just trying to make a memorable thread.</p>
<p>On the not-responding thing, it is indeed annoying, but I think that some people are astonished by the rapidity and quantity–and, let us hope, the quality 
--of the responses here.</p>
<p>There is a kid right now who has posted the same query in about 7 new threads in various forums in a period of a day or two, but doesn’t give feedback. This resulted in numerous people giving detailed advice about using at Naviance: a complete waste of everyone’s time, because it turns out–in another thread–that she’s homeschooled.</p>
<p>“Blame/Entitlement” rant threads:</p>
<p>the kid who’s angry that because he didn’t go to Columbia like Warren Buffet, he now has to contend with a “measly” 65k starting salary that will top out at 150k after 40 hard years</p>
<p>“What is the easiest kind of engineering?” </p>
<p>“I hate math and am terrible at it…can I be an engineer?”</p>
<p>“What major will require the least amount of work both pre- and post-college and pay me the highest salary?”</p>