A thread where a poster declares his goal as “power, money, and fame” as a politician and asks which major would be best for that, while saying they might try chemical engineering to get rich. #-o ~X( @-)
Threads where people come back and post the same point again assuming the person they are disagreeing with has left so they can get the last word.
Threads where people criticize “facts” that are “researched and backed by data” and are in “books” and have “cited sources” and can be “reviewed”. This one baffles me the most of all. It’s anti-intellectual and I hate it.
I find that I’m annoyed by a lot of posts lately, and am trying to stay out of CC jail by not posting all of the snarky comments that are in my head. I particularly hate the humble brags, including the one student deciding whether she submit her 36 ACT after getting 2 35s, or the student that scored a 2380 on the SAT but called Penn a “pipe dream”. (I know Penn is a reach for everyone, but “pipe dream”? With a 2380?). Ugh.
Posts that turn into a chance for people to loudly declaim that students should not be required to take coursework in, e.g., algebra or literature, based entirely on what seems to be a bad experience in their own past taking that subject.
And yet another “HELP!!! I AM FREAKING OUT!!!” post by a student who is posting a “chance me” thread in the “college admissions” forum.
I struggle with threads where students insist money doesn’t matter even though they haven’t really talked actual dollars with their parents or made sure the parental units understand that some colleges cost upwards of $60k/year. It’s very difficult to advise students like that. Parents who can provide all the bells and whistles in high school still may not be able to write $65k/year checks for college.
Worse are the threads where the poster understands that money is an issue but insists it’s fine with everybody if their (usually) single parent cosigns thousands and thousands of dollars worth of loans so they can live their dream. Sometimes the “dream” is a particular college, and those I mostly find worrisome for the family. But the current one whose dream seems to be cohabiting with her boyfriend in another state while her single dad cosigns ~$100k in loans for a psych degree and to cover living expenses that her $7.25/hour job can’t, that one bothers me.
Threads where the student wants to go to college in Canada, UK, Ireland etc. and he states that he has no idea where to find information about colleges in those countries. If he can’t figure that out he is not ready to leave the US. And when it is suggested that he use Google he is offended because he came to CC to find information.
@austinmshauri that thread is really sad - unfortunately that poster is her own worst enemy.
threads where someone calls out an extreme type of questionable behavior, and half the posters answering take umbrage because they equate the called-out behavior to something they’re doing which is definitely not the same thing.
"Murder is bad! "
“Hey, I swatted a mosquito once, and I think it was justifiable.”
Um, that wasn’t what the thread was aimed at. Obviously.
(This is a re-enactment; the actual conversations were not about murder. 
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Lol, @garland - it seems many posters personalize a general thought or comment.
Threads that I’m following, then life happens and when I return the thread has been shut down, and I missed all the drama.
(All about me thinking, “Oh, man! I missed something highly entertaining,” and not at all about the thread being shut down. )
Threads where some insist on quoting another poster’s full and lengthy post, rather than pick highlights or use ellipses.
Any thread hijacked by some know-it-all who is too clueless to know how to edit their posts (or too lazy) and just keeps adding consecutive new ones that say the same thing over and over again.
I miss the old feature that wouldn’t allow you to post two consecutive comments unless a sufficient amount of time had passed.
We earn over $200,000/year. Will our student qualify for need based aid. We have no college fund for him. Oh, and state schools are out of the question.
Kids who’ve never taken an AP class (and even some that have) that declare their intent to self-study for five.
This is a bit of advice given by a 17 year old poster to a worried applicant to top colleges:
Probably wants to throw off the competition
@TomSrOfBoston #1536: Not sure whether to reply =)) or @-)
Where OP is asking about an elite, someone answers, “I got the same stats and I got into my top choice.” Yeah, cross-check and he’s at a college acres down the list. Seems I’ve run into a few of those lately.
When posts have footnotes that have footnotes… that have footnotes. I feel like once you’ve dropped into the third tier of self referencing footnotes, you need to figure out another way of organizing your thoughts.