What's your "Idiot Gauge"?

[CristinaRobo]

For me it's the popular Instant Message board. So far this evening I have been instant messaged by four people whom I'd never met before, but who have "discovered" me through Lit. None of the four have gotten past about 10 lines before just exasperating me with their levels of idiocy. It's been a pretty predictable pattern, starting with a brilliant (I'm being sarcastic here) opening line, and continuing like this.

Idiot: hi, how r u {I hate the overuse of these abbreviations}
Me: I'm fine, thank you
Idiot: saw u on Lit, where r u frm
Me: Boston
Idiot: wat brings u 2 Lit
Me: My husband an I both enjoying surfing the posts and the stories together
Idiot: ur hot id like 2 fuk u

{presses ignore button}


Actually this stuff can provide some rather lighthearted entertainment, as the secret is in seeing how long you can provide fodder for the knucklehead before he suddenly realizes you're jerking his chain.

So what is your "Idiot Gauge" and how does it work?

 

[Eilan]

My Idiot Gauge has been PM's.

Like most people with remotely female-sounding usernames, I found that I was bombarded with PM's when I first joined, usually from people who had fewer than 5 posts, if they'd even posted at all. Most of them were of the "u r hot lets fuk" variety, which is weird since I'd never posted pics, so they had no way of knowing if I was hot. Or female, for that matter.

The more I posted, the less frequent the PM's became; my Lit persona is pretty off-putting, and this keeps the idiots away most of the time. I've found that certain topics bring the idiots out of the woodwork. The most memorable was when I made what I thought was a smart-assed "don't do anything you can't spell" comment in a Personals Board thread about bestiality, and I got several PM's from people wanting to know all about my animal-sex experiences.

I've tried mentioning in my sig and profile that I'm not interested in cyber, pic exchanges, etc, but then I got PM's saying, "I know you said you weren't interested in [insert type of online sexual contact here], but. . ." As a result, I've been limiting my PM's to mods and buddies because I don't want to deal with people unless I've interacted with them on the boards.

Welcome to Lit, BTW!

 

[Quoll]

My Idiot Gauge has been PM's.

As a result, I've been limiting my PM's to mods and buddies because I don't want to deal with people unless I've interacted with them on the boards.

Welcome to Lit, BTW!

Now understand why PMs have been bouncing back.

U r stl hawt tho Elain, four yew eye wood keep my teef in.

http://images.zaazu.com/img/drool-animated-animation-love-smiley-emoticon-000381-large.gif​

Today for me the GB trips my idiot guage.

Otherwise it's assumers, they read a post and then answer about things that simply could not be known from the information given, is it that hard just to reply to the facts.

 

[Eilan]

four yew eye wood keep my teef in.

*swoon*

 

[silverwhisper]

as a guy, i don't generally see the dumbassitude female litsters see.

for me then, the metric is about stupid drivers. look at my profile re: location for why this is a perennial issue that i face. :>

ed

 

[CristinaRobo]

Welcome to Lit, BTW!

Thanks! We're liking here a lot!

for me then, the metric is about stupid drivers. look at my profile re: location for why this is a perennial issue that i face. :>

ed

Oh....the drivers in Hiatus can't be any worse than in downtown Boston!

 

[emap]

Try phoenix, it starts raining and people speed up.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

I hang out on the General Board a lot, so mine gets tripped fairly often. Usually it's a thread about another Litster in an attempt to create drama. Sometimes it can be fun reading, but I rarely get involved with such ass-hattery.

Surprisingly (or not) I have yet to put anyone on ignore, though there are at least a couple that are tempting.

As Silverwhisper said, I'm a guy and don't have to put up with annoying PM's filled with acronyms and one letter replacements for words.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

I still get the odd stupid pm but there's an 'asshat pms' thread in the BDSM Cafe so they're not wasted. One of my personal pet peeves is the copy/paste pm. It's usually a couple of lines of poorly spelled innuendo that some teen geek sits and sends out to any vaguely female sounding username from the 'currently online' list. What they expect to gain from this I'll never understand because it must eat into their masturbation schedule.

Another pet hate, and I know we're all guilty of it at some time or another, is taking things personally on an anonymous porn board. Recent fuckwit posters (yes DrRamulak, this means you) have made an art out of taking everything the wrong way, getting offended and irate at everyone on the boards and spreading insults and vitriol all over the damn place like toddler having a tantrum. If you're not adult enough to take posts on an anonymous fucking porn board with a sizeable pinch of salt, you really should have your internet router disconnected and shoved up your ass... unless of course, you like that kind of play.

I don't go onto the GB anymore because it doesn't matter what I post over there, any post from me results in a debate about how pointless, stupid and fucked up it is to be a submissive woman. I get all the 'but what if your Master ordered you to kill someone?' questions and I just don't have the energy for that kind of futile debate any more. There used to be some really good posters over there but you have to wade through so much utter crap on the threads that I just don't bother. I agree with the principle that there should be an unmodded forum here (though we all know someone must ensure basic laws are adhered to) it's just a shame it's cluttered with idiots. As I said on another thread recently, one of my biggest beefs with the GB is the fact that so much of what they discuss is completely inappropriate to a sex forum. There are people who post there every day about politics. Politics. On a sex forum. Every damn day. I assume they don't go on political forums and discuss their masturbatory habits. If they went near a politics forum with their views they'd be chewed up and spat out, so they sit on the Lit GB and spout rubbish about Obama, Osama, Over-there-istan and on and on and on... ad nauseum.

Wow... seems I have a lot of idiot gauges.

 

[silverwhisper]

cristina: heh...i didn't realize i hadn't changed that back. :> i live in NJ.

ed

 

[emap]

Author's hangout is pretty much exactly the same as GB. On occassion a person will actually go in there looking for a discussion on of all things, authoring stories, but for the most part it's cliques discussing politics, what they did today, what happened last week and politics.

I go into the GB, there's alot of complete idiocy and Busybody, always good for a laugh. Author's hangout I don't bother, it's mostly the same stuff as in GB but said differently and for the most part lots dumber. I mean you wouldn't think it's possible but well.

Jersey huh, that would explain a few things about you silverwhisper, and you really should move I'm pretty sure people are only like that in jersey.

 

[silverwhisper]

yeah, the AH is a bit insular. i don't mind discussing politics, though. :>

pfft, spare me: people in neighboring states drive worse.

ed

 

[bobsgirl]

Now understand why PMs have been bouncing back.

U r stl hawt tho Elain, four yew eye wood keep my teef in.

http://images.zaazu.com/img/drool-animated-animation-love-smiley-emoticon-000381-large.gif​

I saw her first!

eilan is teh hawtness.

 

[butters]

people whose communication skills are virtually zero, much as in the OP's examples, and the relatively articulate who seem to deliberately misunderstand some comment made by another in order to cause a scene or distract from a point.

I set my idiot-gauge on 'generous' on a new board, till I get the feel of the place and and which posters are really stupid and which are only playing for laughs, and who's malicious. Then I adjust accordingly till my patience wears thin enough for a no-tolerance setting. Almost there.

 

[Kikori]

http://i31.tinypic.com/2luz89j.jpg http://i27.tinypic.com/hvujq1.jpg

Oh, wait, this topic is asking about Literotica's cases of such stupidity.
*Coughs*

I surprisingly haven't had many people ask. Maybe... four. Only two of the four so far have been pigs (one referring to doing it in every room of a hotel in one weekend... XD)

They're entertaining, though. My only idiot guage is that of a lot of others; someone who literally forces themself to troll on a discussion that they're too narrow-minded to try and understand. They're not going to change peoples' liking of something or their opinions, and they're wasting their own time (or, as velvet puts it, their masturbation schedule).

 

[butters]

http://i31.tinypic.com/2luz89j.jpg http://i27.tinypic.com/hvujq1.jpg

yes, plenty of laughs.
superb.

 

[Kikori]

yes, plenty of laughs.
superb.

Hey, with how often I reference those pictures, I've had to earned those hours by now. n_n

 

[CristinaRobo]

Some great answers and insight, thank you all so much! And you all have provided at least an evening's worth of chuckles for us.....except for this, which in my opinion is the funniest statement I've seen all week!

I still get the odd stupid pm but there's an 'asshat pms' thread in the BDSM Cafe so they're not wasted. One of my personal pet peeves is the copy/paste pm. It's usually a couple of lines of poorly spelled innuendo that some teen geek sits and sends out to any vaguely female sounding username from the 'currently online' list. What they expect to gain from this I'll never understand because it must eat into their masturbation schedule.

An absolute classic!!

 

[infinity706]

I still get the odd stupid pm but there's an 'asshat pms' thread in the BDSM Cafe so they're not wasted. One of my personal pet peeves is the copy/paste pm. It's usually a couple of lines of poorly spelled innuendo that some teen geek sits and sends out to any vaguely female sounding username from the 'currently online' list. What they expect to gain from this I'll never understand because it must eat into their masturbation schedule.

Another pet hate, and I know we're all guilty of it at some time or another, is taking things personally on an anonymous porn board. Recent fuckwit posters (yes DrRamulak, this means you) have made an art out of taking everything the wrong way, getting offended and irate at everyone on the boards and spreading insults and vitriol all over the damn place like toddler having a tantrum. If you're not adult enough to take posts on an anonymous fucking porn board with a sizeable pinch of salt, you really should have your internet router disconnected and shoved up your ass... unless of course, you like that kind of play.

I don't go onto the GB anymore because it doesn't matter what I post over there, any post from me results in a debate about how pointless, stupid and fucked up it is to be a submissive woman. I get all the 'but what if your Master ordered you to kill someone?' questions and I just don't have the energy for that kind of futile debate any more. There used to be some really good posters over there but you have to wade through so much utter crap on the threads that I just don't bother. I agree with the principle that there should be an unmodded forum here (though we all know someone must ensure basic laws are adhered to) it's just a shame it's cluttered with idiots. As I said on another thread recently, one of my biggest beefs with the GB is the fact that so much of what they discuss is completely inappropriate to a sex forum. There are people who post there every day about politics. Politics. On a sex forum. Every damn day. I assume they don't go on political forums and discuss their masturbatory habits. If they went near a politics forum with their views they'd be chewed up and spat out, so they sit on the Lit GB and spout rubbish about Obama, Osama, Over-there-istan and on and on and on... ad nauseum.

Wow... seems I have a lot of idiot gauges.

I just wonder what you have against discussing politics on the GB. On every forum I've ever been to that has one, it's always been for discussing anything you want that doesn't fit into another section. Regardless of the forum, the GB is usually either filled with sex or politics as well as current local events, depending on what the main forum is about. I just don't go to the GB here because the average IQ there hasn't risen out of the single digits.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

I just wonder what you have against discussing politics on the GB. On every forum I've ever been to that has one, it's always been for discussing anything you want that doesn't fit into another section. Regardless of the forum, the GB is usually either filled with sex or politics as well as current local events, depending on what the main forum is about. I just don't go to the GB here because the average IQ there hasn't risen out of the single digits.

I just think it's sad that their views on politics are so patently prejudiced and ill-informed that they're only tolerated in the GB of a sex forum. Guys like Busybody post 5-10 threads a day on whatever the gutter press over there considers to be current affairs. I might... just possibly be less exasperated about it if the discussions weren't so lame. Those guys are why people think Americans in general are bigoted, ignorant, trigger-happy rednecks. It's a shame that such a stereotype is alive and kicking and pretty much dominating the GB here.

 

[Quoll]

There is no discussion when zealots are involved.


There's a saying that there are no stupid questions, I've come to the conclusion that yes, there are stupid questions, or if the maxim is true, then there are stupid questioners.

 

[great lover]

There is no discussion when zealots are involved.


There's a saying that there are no stupid questions, I've come to the conclusion that yes, there are stupid questions, or if the maxim is true, then there are stupid questioners.

Without asking questions, it is impossible to learn anything.

-Albert Einstein.

 

[Quoll]

There is no discussion when zealots are involved.


There's a saying that there are no stupid questions, I've come to the conclusion that yes, there are stupid questions, or if the maxim is true, then there are stupid questioners.

Without asking questions, it is impossible to learn anything.

-Albert Einstein.

Case in point.

 

[DeeZire]

Author's hangout I don't bother, it's mostly the same stuff as in GB but said differently and for the most part lots dumber...

Actually, I see that differently, in that I see more interesting language in the GB, but expressing less informed opinions. If I ever need a really in-your-face insult for dialogue in one of my stories, the GB is the place to find it. If I want to have an informed discussion, the AH seems more conducive to that, but the fact that my AH ignore list has around 15 people on it helps in the civility department.

The AH can get oppressive after a while, which is why I (accidentally) found this place. Getting back to the OP, my idiot gauge is constantly assaulted by the Right Wing propaganda machine, which has more to do with slogans and scare tactics than disseminating information, but even that can be a subjective call, since there are an equal number of people offended by NPR and Bill Moyers.

It really is a shame that we can't just look at facts without selectively spinning them to suit an agenda.

 

[Quoll]

"So your house has been destroyed, your family is missing, how do you feel?"