Things which irritate me on LJ

[conuly]

1. People who center all their text. Do you have any idea how hard that is to read? Stop doing that. There's a reason text doesn't automatically center.
2. People who fuck with the font colors. If we wanted our font to be in a different color, we'd set it to do that on our friends pages, or within our browser's settings. Stop that. It's not cool, interesting, or worthwhile, it's just hard to read. Oh, and fucking with font sizes? Unless you have a very good reason for this (and it has to be a very good reason, mind) don't do it. It's stupid.
3. People who don't know basic or LJ-HTML, but instead of finding out how to do the HTML instead whine "I'm so sorry I can't do this right" when posting. Use your brain and read the fucking FAQ for a change.
4. Actually, that's it.

Gah, all three things in one half-hour. This must be my lucky day.

Oh, no, wait, I forgot chtspk. Yeah, that sucks. STOP IT.

Oh yes, and large images. WTF is wrong with you? Don't you see what that does to your own journal, and you have to inflict it on random strangers?

Comments

[innerbrat]

2. Following a recent plot, many people in a roleplaying community I'm in use white text to indicates MysTEEEERious subtext. The problem is, both my LJ and my character's have black backgrounds, so I always get confused as to why there's random comments in the posts...

3. Oh GODS yes. HTML is piss easy, dammit!

4. People who don't check their HTML before posting. Especially quiz results and memes.

[conuly]

I've told you that some quizzes will literally break your journal, right?

[innerbrat]

Maliciously, or just through shit HTML like open tables and the like?

[conuly]

Probably not maliciously, though, really, who knows? It'll do stuff like make your entries appear in the wrong order, or (due to a bad image host) cause a pop up to appear, making people freak out and blame LJ for spyware.

[innerbrat]

Yeah, that first one could be due to a badly coded table, but it's all shitty. And I've noticed the second.

Hence the need to double check posts.

[conuly]

What I don't get is that they post these entries, and then, several weeks later, come to the support board and ask why their journal is displaying weirdly. They can always pinpoint the problem to an exact date, too, but it never occurs to them that the problem started when they updated.

[innerbrat]

See, that I don't understand. I've worked helpdesk before, and it amazes me how people don't jump to the logical conclusions.

"My journal's been Effed up since the day I posted this quiz."

"No I haven't tried removing the quiz, why?"

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Like I said in my own comment... just as annoying in the font-color department is people who hard-code an extremely dark font color, expecting that you'll be reading it on a light background. Seems that the Rich Text editor has this thing where it will explicitly specify a font color of black in some circumstances, making the post completely invisible on my friends page.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

And by "is", I mean "are". Heh, I'm such a grammar snob...