New forum based words needed....

[bothrops]

Originally Posted by chris100575

At the risk of threadromancy, how about apostrophobic? Someone who has no grasp at all of how apostrophes work and either avoids them altogether, sticks them in at random, or alway's use's them for word's that end in S.

Threadromancy is completely legitimate if it is a thread such as this. It is a sackable offence if it is some guy selling a tegu or a large burm three years ago and someone posts with a 'R thes still avalabull?'......

You need to split your (excellent) new term in half

Apostrophobic - Someone who has no grasp at all of how apostrophes work and avoids them all together even when theres a legitimate need

Apostrophillic - Someone who alway's use's apostrophe's for word's that end in s


Cheers

Andy

[chris100575]

Ooh, I hadn't thought of apostrophiliac, I like that!

[rase0121]

Originally Posted by bothrops

Threadromancy - Someone posting on a thread more than a year old as if it had just appeared yesterday with no apparent knowledge of its age

wouldnt gravedigger(digging up old dead threads) be better?

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by rase0121

wouldnt gravedigger(digging up old dead threads) be better?

Threadromancy is a play on "necromancy" - the practice of talking to/summoning the dead

Besides, most gravediggers don't dig up old dead bodies, they make places to bury new dead bodies.

How about

Depunct : Describing a user or a post that writes in run-on sentences with no commas or any other punctuation that would break up the flow of their stream of consciousness because that would be boring and make their writing easier to read and besides putting full stops and commas in posts is so HARD.

[Ssthisto]

Or perhaps

Offtoposter: A user who is accorded undeserved respect in a given thread based on their post count or number of "gold stars"... until you realise that 75% + of their posts are in off-topic areas totally unrelated to the post at hand.

[dusty cricket]

Originally Posted by bothrops

Apostrophillic - Someone who alway's use's apostrophe's for word's that end in s

ooh i bloody hate that

[Grond]

Argumaniac - The person who joins an argument/discussion and immediately gets abusive/defensive if anyone has a different opinion!

[Grond]

Deraileur - Person who can immediately rip a thred away from its original topic, onto something totally unrelated.


Never do that myself.....

[morallywrong]

Agrophille - A person who joins a thread late and throws in a different point of view/opinion, just to start an argument going....

....Then is never heard from on the thread again!

[Grond]

Provocateur - One who winds up other people in a post for entertainment to the point of them getting banned.