why so rude?

[GiantFetus]

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AMEN to the rude remarks.

However, I don't see anything wrong with "What are my chances with a 40 MCAT and 3.9." I personally love reading these because I'll then prepare to beat their scores. As a young undergrad, this is certainly a motivation for me and hopefully is for all of you, too.

Not going to lie..I didn't realize how old this thread was until after I had the urge to respond and for that I'm sorry.

 

[centrigeugle]

How rude!

 

[NickNaylor]

AMEN to the rude remarks.

However, I don't see anything wrong with "What are my chances with a 40 MCAT and 3.9." I personally love reading these because I'll then prepare to beat their scores. As a young undergrad, this is certainly a motivation for me and hopefully is for all of you, too.

Not going to lie..I didn't realize how old this thread was until after I had the urge to respond and for that I'm sorry.

The problem is (and still remains as it was identified when this thread was originally started) that most inane posts could be answered by five minutes or less work on the part of the poster. Simply typing the thread title into Google would likely lead to an answer. Instead, people expect someone else to do the work for them.

That's what frustrates me. Rather than use smartass remarks I simply don't respond anymore, but I entirely understand why people get frustrated with these sorts of posts.

 

[ActiveSite]

Could someone explain how the making of a new post affects them directly? Everyone says they hate repeat posts, but I can't understand why anyone would care.

 

[sirenomelia]

The tone of this forum is what one would expect from hyped up workaholic youngsters striving to outperform and overachieve. We wouldnt have the instant classic- Girl arrested in library thread- and others without the sarcasm. You want to hold hands and sing kumba-ya then join a romper-room discussion board.

 

[ThePardoner]

Wow, in b4 lock but yes.

I mean I post a question about an issue which has been bugging me as a pre-med, my punishment? I get accused of being a banned member and there is a good chance the mods will probably side with the accusers since they have more posts than me.

Overall. I do find this site to be quite helpful, and I mean quite helpful. There are a lot of good users on here with the intentions of making the life of the person across the screen better. Then again unfortunately you get users who feel the need to showcase their success academically online and ridicule those who cannot accomplish the same level of success without once taking into account their situation.

My guess as to why some people act this way is because they are constantly being bossed around in real life, have no success in attracting people to them (for love or friendship), and are probably loners who only have their academic accomplishments to fall on. As a result they come on here and belittle others to make up for that emptiness in their life.

Regardless of that type being a loud minority in this forum, I have found a large number to be extremely helpful.

 

[NickNaylor]

Could someone explain how the making of a new post affects them directly? Everyone says they hate repeat posts, but I can't understand why anyone would care.

It dilutes the overall quality of the forum by allowing and even couraging that kind of crap to be posted here. When you post four threads asking the same question, you're just contributing more clutter to the forum with no real increase in benefit.

It doesn't impact be individually, but it does impact the community as a whole.

 

[StoicJosher]

It dilutes the overall quality of the forum by allowing and even couraging that kind of crap to be posted here. When you post four threads asking the same question, you're just contributing more clutter to the forum with no real increase in benefit.

It doesn't impact be individually, but it does impact the community as a whole.

Exactly. I spent a lot of time just reading through tons and tons of (mostly valuable) information and the biggest problem was wading through the useless junk or redundant questions that was inherently sprinkled among the info..

 

[gettheleadout]

Exactly. I spent a lot of time just reading through tons and tons of (mostly valuable) information and the biggest problem was wading through the useless junk or redundant questions that was inherently sprinkled among the info..

See: My location...

 

[nygiants fan]

The worst grilling I've seen is a result of someone making a post about comparing and contrasting schools based on rank or rankings in general. All hell unnecessarily breaks loose.

 

[ThePardoner]

The worst grilling I've seen is a result of someone making a post about comparing and contrasting schools based on rank or rankings in general. All hell unnecessarily breaks loose.

Ya. In a way it kinda scares me though. Like you have people with qualifications on here to be doctors and it is SO SCARY that they do not have the tolerance power or the ability to help a person over the internet. How in the world are such people going help someone in real life?

I hope doctors like the ones on here are in the minority. Because I am going to see one for a depression that has been bugging me, if he is like users on here, FFFFUUUUAAAAARRRKKKK

 

[BirdIsTheWord]

Its really just a circle. We will have some new members come and post the same topics as others before them (Does Ugrad school matter, Does this count towards BCPM, I got an A-;am I done for, etc) and usually the same people will comment with the same remarks.

I know I did it when I was new, and I'm sure more new people will do it too. They just need to learn of the search function when they first start off