Hiatuses.

[balrog]

Also, @seatazzz , would that be "Hiatusi"?

 

[day_trippr]

My brain keeps wanting to see "Hiati"

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Also, @seatazzz , would that be "Hiatusi"?

My brain keeps wanting to see "Hiati"

Was on hiatus
Couldn't take it anymore
But I did come back

 

[seatazzz]

Also, @seatazzz , would that be "Hiatusi"?

Google is my friend (sometimes my ONLY friend). The plural form of hiatus is 'hiatuses'. I too would like to see hiatusi, like hippopotami or octopi or alumni (or if you are being gender specific 'alumnae'), other words escape me at the moment.

 

[Broothru]

Google is my friend (sometimes my ONLY friend). The plural form of hiatus is 'hiatuses'. I too would like to see hiatusi, like hippopotami or octopi or alumni (or if you are being gender specific 'alumnae'), other words escape me at the moment.

My Latin ain’t that good (worse than my German, Spanish AND English combined), but would the plural of hiatus be hiati?

 

[balrog]

My Latin ain’t that good (worse than my German, Spanish AND English combined), but would the plural of hiatus be hiati?

PKU
@day_trippr beat you to that one.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Being on the web is like being in a car. It makes people feel safe, so they let the worst parts of their personalities take over.

I have a huge number of hobbies, so I have joined many forums. What I have found is that Internet forum jerkdom exhibits a few repetitive patterns we have all seen over and over. Some of my favorites:

1. Attack the new guy when he's right. Someone joins a forum, and a resident troll laureate who wants to take his prizewinning hemorrhoids out on the world starts being rude to him. The new guy puts him in his place. Everyone else joins in and hammers the new guy.

2. Here's one I love. Get furious when someone politely rejects your bad advice. "What's the best way to discourage my toddler from drawing on the wall?" "Twelve-gauge full of rock salt." "Thanks, but I don't think that option is for me." "WELL I GUESS YOU KNOW EVERYTHING! WHY DID YOU COME HERE IF YOU ALREADY KNEW THE ANSWER?"

3. Make physical threats you don't mean and can't possibly back up. Everyone on the Internet has his own dojo and set of amazing martial arts skills. Two guys start to bicker. One says, probably correctly, that the other wouldn't dare talk like that to his face. Soon, there appear tales of black belts and bench press personal bests. One guy offers to meet the other wherever he wants. They go back and forth, killing the thread and making everyone else wish they had never joined the forum. They never meet, because one weighs 109 pounds and has to have his girlfriend open jars for him, and the other has to use an electric fat cart to get him around the grocery store, where he only buys Hot Pockets, Root Beer, and Little Debbies. Which he eats simultaneously from the same bucket.

4. Demand sources for everything, no matter how obvious. "I have a cat named Bob." "SOURCE???!!! SOURCE???!!!" Tiresome. Learn to use a search engine. Read your first book.

5. Show off knowledge you don't really have, by providing inapposite answers you just got from Google but didn't really understand.

6. Make angry demands for explanations of things someone else said, which you, alone, are too stupid to understand. I had a guy get mad at me because I said replacing the bottom of a high-end cabinet with half-inch plywood from Home Depot would basically mean replacing all the cabinets in the room. Pretty obvious. A plywood monstrosity would ruin the whole room's appearance, so I would end up having to replace everything. He wanted me to explain the carpentry and defend my claim. I'm not his Dunning-Kruger research assistant.

7. Argue with pros about things they know way more about. I'm a lawyer, and this one drives me nuts. Everyone in America thinks he can tell lawyers about law, as if they make us go to school for three years for no reason. I wonder if they do this to brain surgeons, telling them they should use JB Weld to fix aneurysms. There is a popular gun writer named Massad Ayoob, and he was considered a big authority on the mechanics of self-defense, not the law, right after color TV was invented. Forty years later, there are thousands of younger people who do what he did, better. He has zero legal training, but he puts up dangerous videos telling people what to tell the cops if they shoot someone. A real idiot when it comes to law. I criticized him in order to warn people, and his equally ignorant buddies tossed me from a forum over it. I wonder if anyone has gone to prison for listening to him. If so, I hope it was one of the mods on that forum.

There is absolutely no way to convince a deluded layman he's not a legal expert. It is impossible. As for me, I don't even argue with professionals who come to fix the garage door.

I have a VPN. I should rejoin the forum under a new identity, go back to the threads that made the mods mad, and post furious screeds full of grammatical errors, agreeing with them for labeling me a menace. I'll get them going and then see if I can get up a crew to go lynch me. Better yet, I'll tell them I found that guy and burned his house down, and I'll ask Ayoob what to tell the cops.

One really annoying thing about forums is that if you show any humility at all, and you admit you made a mistake or say there is something you don't know, people who have half your IQ and knowledge will condescend and start attacking you for your stupidity. The Internet is full of chest-puffing simians who know everything and never, ever made a mistake. If you are open about your faults, these insecure people will flock to you like flies to poop. They lurk in wait, hoping someone they can use for a punching bag will show up.

I used to belong to a machining forum, and I got really tired of people talking down to me. There was a little group of guys who gave me the "grasshopper" treatment. One day I was thinking about posting something, and I realized I was no longer in the mood to put up with their attitude, so I joined a nicer forum. That was years ago, and I haven't been back once. They wondered where I went and why.

I've been guilty of Internet jerkdom myself, but I am always trying to do better.

Maybe I should delete all this and just say, "Yes. That has happened to me."

Hey, does the name "Maryanne Kehoe" ring a bell here?

 

[day_trippr]

they should use JB Weld to fix aneurysms.

"That's just crazy enough to work!"

Read every word, and feel relieved my "social media" world has always been skinny...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Lot to unpack there.
Stay sane
It’s just the internet.

I do agree that it emboldens too much under the blanket of anonymity.

 

[passedpawn]

Being on the web is like being in a car. It makes people feel safe, so they let the worst parts of their personalities take over.

I have a huge number of hobbies, so I have joined many forums. What I have found is that Internet forum jerkdom exhibits a few repetitive patterns we have all seen over and over. Some of my favorites:

1. Attack the new guy when he's right. Someone joins a forum, and a resident troll laureate who wants to take his prizewinning hemorrhoids out on the world starts being rude to him. The new guy puts him in his place. Everyone else joins in and hammers the new guy.

2. Here's one I love. Get furious when someone politely rejects your bad advice. "What's the best way to discourage my toddler from drawing on the wall?" "Twelve-gauge full of rock salt." "Thanks, but I don't think that option is for me." "WELL I GUESS YOU KNOW EVERYTHING! WHY DID YOU COME HERE IF YOU ALREADY KNEW THE ANSWER?"

3. Make physical threats you don't mean and can't possibly back up. Everyone on the Internet has his own dojo and set of amazing martial arts skills. Two guys start to bicker. One says, probably correctly, that the other wouldn't dare talk like that to his face. Soon, there appear tales of black belts and bench press personal bests. One guy offers to meet the other wherever he wants. They go back and forth, killing the thread and making everyone else wish they had never joined the forum. They never meet, because one weighs 109 pounds and has to have his girlfriend open jars for him, and the other has to use an electric fat cart to get him around the grocery store, where he only buys Hot Pockets, Root Beer, and Little Debbies. Which he eats simultaneously from the same bucket.

4. Demand sources for everything, no matter how obvious. "I have a cat named Bob." "SOURCE???!!! SOURCE???!!!" Tiresome. Learn to use a search engine. Read your first book.

5. Show off knowledge you don't really have, by providing inapposite answers you just got from Google but didn't really understand.

6. Make angry demands for explanations of things someone else said, which you, alone, are too stupid to understand. I had a guy get mad at me because I said replacing the bottom of a high-end cabinet with half-inch plywood from Home Depot would basically mean replacing all the cabinets in the room. Pretty obvious. A plywood monstrosity would ruin the whole room's appearance, so I would end up having to replace everything. He wanted me to explain the carpentry and defend my claim. I'm not his Dunning-Kruger research assistant.

7. Argue with pros about things they know way more about. I'm a lawyer, and this one drives me nuts. Everyone in America thinks he can tell lawyers about law, as if they make us go to school for three years for no reason. I wonder if they do this to brain surgeons, telling them they should use JB Weld to fix aneurysms. There is a popular gun writer named Massad Ayoob, and he was considered a big authority on the mechanics of self-defense, not the law, right after color TV was invented. Forty years later, there are thousands of younger people who do what he did, better. He has zero legal training, but he puts up dangerous videos telling people what to tell the cops if they shoot someone. A real idiot when it comes to law. I criticized him in order to warn people, and his equally ignorant buddies tossed me from a forum over it. I wonder if anyone has gone to prison for listening to him. If so, I hope it was one of the mods on that forum.

There is absolutely no way to convince a deluded layman he's not a legal expert. It is impossible. As for me, I don't even argue with professionals who come to fix the garage door.

I have a VPN. I should rejoin the forum under a new identity, go back to the threads that made the mods mad, and post furious screeds full of grammatical errors, agreeing with them for labeling me a menace. I'll get them going and then see if I can get up a crew to go lynch me. Better yet, I'll tell them I found that guy and burned his house down, and I'll ask Ayoob what to tell the cops.

One really annoying thing about forums is that if you show any humility at all, and you admit you made a mistake or say there is something you don't know, people who have half your IQ and knowledge will condescend and start attacking you for your stupidity. The Internet is full of chest-puffing simians who know everything and never, ever made a mistake. If you are open about your faults, these insecure people will flock to you like flies to poop. They lurk in wait, hoping someone they can use for a punching bag will show up.

I used to belong to a machining forum, and I got really tired of people talking down to me. There was a little group of guys who gave me the "grasshopper" treatment. One day I was thinking about posting something, and I realized I was no longer in the mood to put up with their attitude, so I joined a nicer forum. That was years ago, and I haven't been back once. They wondered where I went and why.

I've been guilty of Internet jerkdom myself, but I am always trying to do better.

Maybe I should delete all this and just say, "Yes. That has happened to me."

Hey, does the name "Maryanne Kehoe" ring a bell here?

Woot. I think I'm guilty of all of that. Great post lol. Very DRMM-worthy.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

I don't want to say how many of these things I've done.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Oh, hey, I forgot my favorite: "Google is your friend." It comes in another flavor: "Use the forum's search function."

Yeah, that's exactly why I go to forums. To have jerks who don't finance the domain tell me I'm not supposed to post anything. Really stupid. The whole purpose of a forum is to publish posts, and that includes posts about topics people have already discussed. It includes questions people have failed to find answers for because they didn't use the right search terms. You're not improving the forum or saving "bandwidth" (like it's something that runs out) by discouraging other people from posting. You're just killing the forum and being abusive.

It's really not possible to say "Google is your friend" unless you're kind of a jerk.

A corollary to this is that only jerks abuse people who post beginner questions for not knowing much. This is not merely wrong. It's dumb.

 

[day_trippr]

"Google is your friend"

"Way Back Machine" worthy - I haven't seen that in many years...which could reflect a cloistered existence, I guess...

Cheers!

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Check this out:

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Only comes up 38 times for this site.

Oops. Made a typo. The actual figure is 71.

 

[Jonakr]

Haha! I totally forgot Usenet (jeeze!) I participated in a number of fishing related groups, particularly rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (aka "r.o.f.f"), along with a crapton of technical groups related to DEC platforms.

Of course this was well after DECnet had been around for years, and we had our own internal forums on a text based platform named "Notes", much of its functionality ending up in Usenet. Most were business related but there was an extensive collection of non-business forums including a flyfishing group...

Cheers!

Hah. I used to love the flame wars on rec.woodworking. I also avidly read the FreeBSD forums until apple hired Jordan Hubbard to work on OSX. I still have a valid Slashdot account, but almost never read it anymore.

 

[Jonakr]

Oh, hey, I forgot my favorite: "Google is your friend." It comes in another flavor: "Use the forum's search function."

Yeah, that's exactly why I go to forums. To have jerks who don't finance the domain tell me I'm not supposed to post anything. Really stupid. The whole purpose of a forum is to publish posts, and that includes posts about topics people have already discussed. It includes questions people have failed to find answers for because they didn't use the right search terms. You're not improving the forum or saving "bandwidth" (like it's something that runs out) by discouraging other people from posting. You're just killing the forum and being abusive.

It's really not possible to say "Google is your friend" unless you're kind of a jerk.

A corollary to this is that only jerks abuse people who post beginner questions for not knowing much. This is not merely wrong. It's dumb.

I still love "LMGTFY"

 

[mac_1103]

Everybody knows that you can't fix an aneurysm with JB Weld. You need superglue.

I don't even remember what I used to do back in usenet days. I spent a lot of time on Prius Chat when I got my first Prius. Found some good stuff, mostly from a handful of really knowledgeable and helpful posters, but unfortunately a lot more misinformation. Was also on baseballthinkfactory a ton for several years but eventually got tired of having the same arguments over and over.