Comments on: Top 5 Pet Peeves Online

By: Nils Geylen

Nils Geylen — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:41:19 +0000

@Smaran: well, I wouldn’t blame you, but it’s true you did have a few old nicks floating around – not unlike me (Last.fm, Flickr, …) You I know, though, it gets annoying with people I don’t know.

@Clarkey: anything that asks you info you’re not prepared to give is annoying. Inquiries shouldn’t do that indeed. And if they abuse your trust, that’s an instant no-no. Hate it with a vengeance.

By: Clarkey

Clarkey — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:28:50 +0000

One of my all time pet hates is having to register to obtain price information. I appreciate that people don’t always want their competition to know what they’re charging but generally it means you are going to end up with the full benefit of their marketing campaign in your inbox. Ugggh, it’s just nasty.

By: Smaran

Smaran — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:33:13 +0000

I wonder if I can be blamed for the varying identities thing. My online nick in most places is koregaonpark. I was anonymous as AATW for a while, but now that’s done with, and I’m Smaran almost everywhere else (except for del.icio.us where I’m “deliberation”, but my name is visible on the page!).

By: Nils Geylen

Nils Geylen — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:14:11 +0000

@Josh: most password setups are flawed I think, but maximum lengths I hadn’t heard of yet. Preposterous. What I hate too is when mistyping a repeat pw or just making any other mistake messes up the signup procedure and you have to start over? Argh! Horrible.

@Tom: exactly. Ties in with the nicknames and multiple identities for me. If you’re not sure who you are, don’t clog up the web I say. I’m not saying everyone should just have their email and phone on their blogs, but please: let me get in touch with you quick and easy indeed. If not, why publish in the first place?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:22:38 +0000

You’ve nailed two of mine, “bad forms” and “no about”.

There is one more, related to “no about” in some ways. Lack of contact info for a webpage. I’m a communication obsessed person. Contact regarding anything and everything is important to me. If I’m on a site and I want to know more or pose a question of some sort (to the owner/admin) but can’t, it drives me nuts.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:44:33 +0000

One of my major pet peeves is when sites severely limit what you can use for your password, leading you to select a potentially weak one. MySpace is an example of this: a maximum of 10 characters, and no punctuation marks allowed. I’m fine with a minimum limit – “password must be six characters or longer, must contain at least 1 number” – but a maximum? I hate it.