I hear you. It was miserable outside here today, like a steambath at times but nowhere near as pleasant. It'll likely be the same all weekend. :P

Friends who call you up to hang out, but don't show up, and their excuse is that "They're tired."

That happens a lot with me. Why don't these people just say they're not interested in hanging out? :P

Depraved extended family members. Long story, this.

This one guy who's on a couple other forums I belong to, he's a real little punk. It's not just him I'm annoyed at though, on one of the forums the admin/staff just don't care when members harass eachother. So this one guy, he goes around saying "f--- you" to people who have different opinions than him and can get away with that. And on the second forum, he posted the animated avatar I made for the first forum without crediting me or at least saying "I didn't make this I found it somewhere" making it look like he'd made it himself. Of course he didn't even copy it to his own computer and upload it somewhere, he just used my imageshack addy for it. :jk: I posted right after him saying "yeah that's my avatar and here's some more I made - in fact here's my website where you can get them all," so I'm sure everyone knows I made it, but that was an irritating thing for him to do.

Ugh, IMDB is bad about that too. A lot of trolls, and the mods don't seem to care half the time. And what makes it worse, if you report too many posts, no matter how offensive they are, they tag you as "annoying" or something, and they won't let you report any offensive posts any more. Sometimes someone "official" gives first hand info about a show/movie/actor, but keeping my eyes open for those are the only reason I still check that place for news. Without them, the place would be outright hostile. >:(

Oh, don't get me started on IMDB. I used to hang out there a lot in 2005, now I scarcely drop by at all, and when I do I never post. Finding (and maintaining) a half-way intelligent or civilised conversation in that place is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. As you say, there are an awful lot of trolls, and the place is very poorly moderated - possibly because there's a message board for every single movie, actor and director that's ever been, and only a comparatively very small number of staff members to oversee them all. I found that if you complained about a post with blatantly very offensive content, it could be months before anything actually happened. And unfortunately, the hostility doesn't stop with just the trolls. I found that roughly 95% of "normal users" in that place were rude, aggressive and derisive (a lot of them seemed to be troubled teenage boys who honestly didn't appear to have much else of a life), and that whatever opinions you expressed, even something as harmless as "I really enjoyed so-and-so's performance in thingy-film", nine times out of ten you'd get flamed for it. In the end it's hard to say who was worse - them, or the folks who'd post user reviews on a regular basis and then behave as though that somehow made them professional critics. :wiltyeahright:

All true. Just ask Solid Snake himself, David Hayter, who, as uberdave, frequently posts on his page's message board.

REALLY? That's him?

Wow, he's brave. I think if I were an actor, actress or director, I'd be too scared to go in any message board connected to me in that place. :macwor: