101 Ways to Kill an Internet Forum Thread

101 Ways to Kill an Internet Forum Thread

1. Ignore its topic.

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3. Laundry lists

4. Disregard the website's forum guidelines and/or terms of service.

5. Divert conversation into the manufacture of handkerchiefs.

6) Complain about it.

Constantly bleating and whining about people breaking forum guidelines when they are the only ones making your dirt-bag thread of any interest.

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8. Presuming to intrude on forum conversations by correcting misspellings of words which people spell differently in other countries.

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9. Flaunting your real or assumed grammatical correctness by drawing attention to inconsequential errors committed by other forum contributors.

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10. By making declarative statements without providing factual website references and/or thread links for the purpose of disrupting a thread's progress.