What do you find annoying about some forums?

[cheat-master30]

Originally Posted by lasto

To many negative threads on here later.Everyone wants everything to their liking yet if u was to go to their site,you proberly would find something you disliked,but their reply would be `dont like it,move on`.Well thats what u lot should do when you not happy with something.End of day a site is not built around ones persons taste and as such you should respect that.

The site above cheatmaster - ive viewed and it loads fine on my comp so the onus is on you to enable java and not to use his site as an example.Is it the site owners problem because you have not got java enabled ? NO
Solution Switch it or on or stay on sites which dont require it.

There's no reason it shouldn't work without javascript though, default vBulletin does, as can be seen on vBulletin.com, so if the site is broken, and via a quick check of the code I found out what caused, then they're deliberately breaking their site for who knows how much of the internet population for no reason. Don't even start to say things like right click 'protection', since that's also annoying useless junk that needs to die, and wasn't used on said site anyway.

[djxcee]

Forums that have addons/features that isn't needed. Especially the new ones!!

Why would a money/car forum need an arcade, radio, casino and/or chatbox?
Seriously... would the owner please think!

[GSeybold]

A lot of advertising
big graphics
gradient alt1/ alt2
bright orange
dark forums
forum starting far down the page.

Gabby

[students_forum]

Originally Posted by Jon Tolzien

Alright things that bother me about forums....

For the most part i agree with everything that has been posted

I can't stand those ads that follow me as I scroll across the screens. It feels as if they are trying to shove that ad down my throat.

No music whatsoever playing in the background. I will listen to my own music, instead of being forced to listen the forums music.

The phrase "keep it simple, stupid" applies here. Instead of making a forum that shows everything of the first page, make the forum user friendly. Let the user navigate to where he or she is going to with appropriate titles.

Also with showing recent posts on your home page. Doesn't that defeat the point of the forum. I go to the forum to post and read posts. It seems redundant to have the posts that i can read on a different page. Its like come on! get some different front page material.

I don't really get what you mean with the latest post on forumhome ... what do you think of the site in my signature?

[lasto]

Originally Posted by students_forum

I don't really get what you mean with the latest post on forumhome ... what do you think of the site in my signature?

easy to browse and nice layout.

[kevcj]

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No need to get personal, the post was on topic for this thread and nowhere is any site name mentioned.

[Oyobiia]

I hate the sites with big logos/headers.

[students_forum]

I also don't like it when member profile pages have mp3, youtube videos and all that ...
I often think I don't go to people's pages to hear music?

[Dream]

forums where all users have 800x600 sigs, with flashy Dragon Ball and whatever images, 200x200 avatars and the posts are one liners.

popup ads I think pretty much anyone hates.

mods/admins that think they are better than the users... I mean, c'mon, you are just the janitor.

boards that limit signatures too much. boards that don't limit signatures at all.

boards full of trolls, where everyone's hobby is to get to each other, where you don't make any friends, just enemies.

boards with 50 empty forums. I don't dislike them but its sad, been there done that. mine still has too many forums, but I can't bring myself to chop any one of them because they seem to make sense.

youtube mods with 1000 youtube videos. If I want a site with >1000 youtube videos, I go to youtube. now, a forum called "YouTube" where people share videos they like (using AME) is pretty cool, and is always popular.

what else... idk already complained too much

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now for the forum categories I like

Anything goes
Movies and Television
Post Jokes Forum
Post Videos Forum
Interesting Images Forum
News and World Events

in the hands of a nice community, those rock

[NakedAlien]

I hate strange rules. I've been turned off from signing up by reading the rules on some sites. It was not like I was planning to break any, but the way it was written was just not right.