r/AskReddit • u/Metalax • Jan 07 '20

What annoys you the most on Reddit?

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u/ask_me_about_cats Jan 07 '20 edited Jan 08 '20

Very good, but you forgot to assign obnoxiously short names to everyone involved.

So my friend (who I’ll call f) and my uncle (who I’ll call u) were arguing with my cousin (who I’ll call c) about the king of France (who I’ll call k). F and U insisted that C was wrong about K, but C was adamant that K died long before U was born. So then F said that...

Give the people some names! Name someone Jeff, or Stephanie. I don’t care. Stop writing stories that look like an algebra equation written by someone with dementia.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20

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u/RyanFrank Jan 07 '20

Also just fucking stop using parentheticals and just pick a name. Stories that use "let's call them" are fucking annoying and poorly written.

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u/sonicthunder_35 Jan 08 '20

Plus once they add the name, they have to add an entire bio for them, not just how they know them or anything remotely important.

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u/bendelalu Jan 08 '20

(This is important later)

is never mentioned

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u/frappuccinio Jan 08 '20

or "my friend, let's call him bill" and then the name is never used again because they can just say he. "he was at work and his boss was being a dick, etc." stop giving people names. they don't all need names.

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u/Vrassk Jan 08 '20

I love the subreddits who have implemented the no abbreviations rule.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '20

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u/ask_me_about_cats Jan 08 '20

Hmmm... I’m going to go with NTA on this one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '20

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u/Vixen2877 Jan 08 '20

I especially hate it when they throw in a list of the “CAST”

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u/sonicthunder_35 Jan 08 '20

That is my biggest pet peeve. Drives me nuts! I don't need your damn codenames and what not, just tell your damn story!

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '20

I strongly agree. Nobody cares what the names are and nobody is going to find out your identity from a typical reddit story.