101 Ways to Kill an Internet Forum Thread

101 Ways to Kill an Internet Forum Thread

1. Ignore its topic.

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Copy pastes

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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Ask Grampy Bobby how many times he has been banned for disregarding the forum guidelines.

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

1. Grampy Bobby

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

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It certainly is relevant; Grampy Bobby cited as his first choice of "101 ways to kill a forum thread" as being disregard of the forum guidelines, something which you wholeheartedly agree with.

In fact, considering that Grampy Bobby has been banned probably more times than all the other regular GF posters put together, and that you are one of the contributors to a whole forum being shut down, I'd suggest that you and he get together and form a self-help group.

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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.