I didn’t read your article and here is my opinion on it…

Forums and comments on articles are usually full of people who don’t know the proper use of the caps lock key (there really isn’t one, just take it off already), don’t appear to be able to form a sentence, just write random words, use shortened forms of words that appear to be something other than English or just plain don’t seem to care if their post is comprehensible or not.  If it’s a popular thread, you’ll see all those plus the people who feel it’s their job to correct all of the above and call them out for their mistakes or ‘lazyness’.

If it’s a day I’m on the internet I can guarantee I’ll see most of those examples plainly laid out.  And I’m OK with that, it’s just a part of the internet I’ve come to expect and either ignore or try to puzzle out depending on my interest or commitment to the thread.  If it’s a post on the forums for the game I work on, I’ll try to figure out what that person was saying and even google abbreviations I’m not familiar with.  If it’s reading a blog post’s reactions from someone on foodnetwork.com I’ll probably get bored pretty quick and stop reading.

There is one thing I’m seeing more often that I can’t seem to just ignore and has become a pet peeve that gets me everytime I see it.  It’s the person who posts, either after an article or a in a long forum thread something to the effect of:

“I can’t be bothered to read this article/forum thread/blog because the title sucks/it’s too long/I don’t care about it and my opinion on this is [insert random opinion here]“.

Of anything I’ve seen since I got my first introduction to the net back in.. sometime a long time ago… this has to be the most ridiculous and it’s common!

After reading 150 pages of a forum thread on any topic why are people subjecting me to their opinion when they didn’t bother to read even the first two pages?  And if they only read the title of the article and not the full thing why do they feel they have an opinion other people would be interested in reading?  And why do they even want to take the time to post about it!

Maybe the only thing that gets me is the people who write a fairly long post and then somewhere near the end add in they didn’t read anything else about it.

My wish for all future posts is that people stop admitting they didn’t read the thread/article, just let me exist in peace pretending that they at least read some of what they’re critiquing.