Originally posted by Metal_Man88

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Hordes of "Tweet this" "Facebook this" "Digg this" buttons. Not only do we not need all those buttons, but some of us prefer to use old-fashioned word of mouth.

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I never use those. Not only is it generally easier to copy the URL into IRC or Twitter, they like to use some lame message that looks like an ad and/or doesn't let me explain what is interesting about the page, and who knows what they're doing with the reference info.

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Harassing users with REGISTERED USER ONLY CONTENT, if it's a site which has no business doing this. One of the worst offenders was DetStar.com , which closed down shortly afterwards, since nobody's payin' a fistful of dollars to see lame SSB:M cheat codes.

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I always laugh at the idea of paying for registration on a website. I've yet to see one worth paying for. Maybe some porn sites if you really surf a lot of porn, but then, if you surf that much you've probably found plenty for free.

And yes the whole requiring registration to view links/download attachments/view profiles/view anything just fails. If I can't find the content elsewhere or a working BugMeNot account I'll generally make up a fake account, use it once for whatever I need, submit to BMN. Unfortunately that service also is pretty broken with allowing just anyone to look up all the accounts without even a CAPTCHA, and with allowing sites to be removed just by request, so it's become significantly less useful. (You think they might get the hint when they're going through blocking all these accounts and new ones keep popping up... )

The ones that let you view a few pages before (usually with no warning) springing it on you are almost always cookie-based, though.

Originally posted by Supakitsune

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I can agree with you for the most part, but...

Originally posted by Rena

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[...]multiple Flash files (each having to be loaded in series) where one should have been. (I'm looking at you, MSPA.)

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...Um. What? Are you saying that you want all the Flash animations to be in one gigantic SWF file? Yeah, good luck not exploding every MSPA reader's computer. Including Andrew Hussie himself, I'm sure.

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A properly-designed system should be able to easily avoid this problem by dynamically loading content and unloading it when you move to the next (but "properly designed web content" and "MSPA" are practically opposites), but specifically I'm referring to at least one case where you load a Flash animation, watch it, click Next, and.... load another Flash animation. And a few where you have to try to watch the animation and read the text below at the same time. (Hope you've got a tall screen.) Multiple sequential animations and corresponding text should be easily combined into one, with a play button, so we can just let it load and go get a snack instead of having to pause halfway through to load the next.

Also: Every "file hosting/sharing" site ever made is designed to annoy, and some do it pretty well. Extension: every site that uses CAPTCHAs to annoy instead of to actually separate bots from people.

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Originally posted by Leroy

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Human readers can tell whether it's you or not, reading the posts. The thing is, people need to end up at the forum in the first place to do so. Profile pages tend to mention 'real names', causing crawlers and spyders to index the concerning page, in the end making the real name actually search-able for the whole Internet.

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Which is why the bots are told not to index the page and you don't put your real name there if you don't want people to know.

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It's great when the only way to comment is through Facebook. The climax of the "register to comment" annoyance. Not only do you have to register, but you have to go through a lengthy and very invasive registration process at a completely different site that has shown a total lack of concern for privacy.

Even if you do already have an account, sometimes you'd rather not have your real life associated with some random post on the interblag, and who knows what information you're giving this random site access to when you use this...

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