Oh the IRONY of some of the comments here is just so delicious.

i get peeved by 'too easy' written as '2 ez'. [ i know, i know, it is economical :) ]

I completely agree with, loomis and oginschille about the Daily Puzzle.  I often see puzzles described as " too easy"- arrgghhh!!  Is that "too easy" because you are good enough to solve it but are so arrogant you have to let people know?  So to all the 'easy' people (and you know who you are), just be content with your success and remember that there are weaker people than you on this site who find these puzzles more difficult.  Unlike Oginschille I don't think I will be able to let this one go!

Rant over.

"No Pet Peeves here!!!" - ADK

ADK, do you mean you only have wild peeves/ free peeves ?

 

3. friends forgetting that i exist
4. friends never leaving me alone - always intruding into my personal space

I'm not sure I'd call it a pet peeve, but I think I have a similar attitude. I hate being ignored, but just the same, I hate being constantly badgered (actually, I don't think it's the badgering part as much as expectations that I do something or be somewhere, infringing on my very limited free time).  

 

If I see 5/3/08, I know it means May 3, 2008. I've never known it to mean anything else, so I don't understand the confusion.   But apparently other people, maybe non-Americans(?), are confused by it.
05.03.08 I have no idea about - other than in .pgn headings where it would mean March 5, 2008.

 

 

4 of my pet peeves (seriously!):

1. ppl not lazy enough to avoid deleting irrelevant quotes while replying

2.  ppl too lazy to delete irrelevant quotes while replying

3. friends forgetting that i exist

4. friends never leaving me alone - always intruding into my personal space

As was pointed out, peeves are not necessarily rational ;) 

Dozy wrote: My pet peeve?  Unnecessarily slow opponents.  I don't mean people who use all their available time--that's their right--but rather those people who play quickly until they find themselves with a lost game then slow down their responses, sometimes even using their vacation allotment, just to avoid losing.

I am not sure about that - i did that three times here after i put piece en prise  in three games [two of them during the half time of a euro cup football game :) ] - i took time to think up counterchances - i converted two losses into wins and i rather think i might manage a draw in the 3rd one one i reach draw i will take more time on that game and try to swindle a win :) . (only one of them is over ... now opps are taking too much time - i really like the trap i set in the latest of these - the 1600- opp couldn't have *not* fallen into it but i can't talk about it - the game isnt over.)

 bemweeks wrote (first pet peeve) dates written like 3/5/08. Is that March 5 or 3 May?

 

In notes to myself or other UK people, I write 3.5.08 to mean 3rd May. If someone writes 3/5/08 i assume they are from north america and they mean 5th march. 

For computer use i prefer to write 3rd may 2008 as 20080503 because then a numeric sort sorts the dates also. 

My pet peeves are

• Dates written like 3/5/08. Is that March 5 or 3 May?
• Blogs using Chesspublisher.com to publish games. More precisely, blogs overusing it. It's so slow that it reminds me of dialup.
• People who post personal pet peeves in public places.
• People who overuse alliteration.

I have more, but I'm contradicting myself about posting pet peeves. - Mark

No Pet Peeves here!!!

ADK

Oddly, I suppose, I don't find much annoying here at Chess.com. 

Well, there is one thing - when I decline a challenge to play a game I'm presented with a text box for offering a reason.  I find this annoying.  I simply leave the text box blank and click the "submit" button, but I shouldn't even have to do that.

Oh, and I HATE dial-up!!  Been there, done that, and don't EVER want to go there again.  One cannot enjoy the Internet that way, period!    (No offense, batgirl) 

   

Live chess here at chess.com. Can't wait untill they work out all the bugs.

I share oginschile's pet peeve about the daily puzzle. The comments are such drivel that if there is anything interesting to discuss it gets lost.  It seems like most days somebody says "the puzzle doesn't work becuase of X" and despite someone answering why X doesn't break the puzzle, the complaint gets repeated several times by some chess idiots who think they're God's gift to the daily puzzle.

 

I also share the quote peeve. Perhaps there should be a forum setting to hide all quotes. Then the sane among us don't have to have our reading experience crapped on by huge gray boxes of PRJ (previously read junk).

I don't think I could come up with a more irritating situation than receiving the comment "Good Game" from my opponent , right after I have gotten myself in a totally embarrassing position and  resigned .

I hate it when male players treat me uneaqually just because I'm a girl.  Not saying all males do it, just a bunch of rude ones I know.

I also don't like when people don't notate after every move and then want to take a few short minutes to copy my notation of the game before we're done.

I don't appreciate "check".  Now that it's against the rules, anyone who plays chess should know that and not say it.  Most friends I play that aren't rated or anything I don't mind so much, but rated kids in chess club should know better.  In April, I was in a small unrated tournament in Canada and I had to play two people two times, one as white, and one as black and I was the only girl in my section.  While the rules were being talked about and clarified, I was trying to listen but every boy that was sitting near me was talking or goofing off.  When the rules were being discussed at a part I knew well, I turned around and asked them to be quiet.  They started being rude and dissing me bacause I was so "uptight".  I said, "Well, I guess we know who's here to win and who's here to lose."  When I started my first game, I soon found out that the boy went to the tournament to just get a day off school.  The first game, I easily checkmated him after he made some huge blunders.  The second game, I was winning and I decided to teach him a little something about rules.  I started checking him without saying check.  He started moving into check and that was how I won my second game.  He lost after doing it three times.  BTW  I took second place in that tournament.

Daily puzzles - nobody cares whether you got it or thought it was easy. For some reason the "first" and "second" postings aren't too big a bother to me... but the constant crying that puzzles are too easy, even when they are clearly difficult is a serious annoyance to me. But one that I should just be able to get over.

I do have to say.. i have been guilty of putting in unnecessary game diagrams into threads that aren't necessarily about the game I'm putting in. I have thought about that once or twice, that perhaps it annoys people. I have now that about it twice or three times.

One other thing is not necessarily a pet peeve but something i just wish wouldn't happen, is when my favorite bloggers take a break from blogging. As if they have the right not to entertain me.

umm... thats about it.

people who don't press clocks instead they wipe there whole hand over it.

And people who annotate their games without any new ideas example.

1.e4 takes control of the center and allows whites queen and bishop to develop

that is possibly the most annoying thing but i did do it once or twice and i do apologise thouroughly.

Can't stand people who cheat, and even worse is people who accuse others of cheating... just drop the whole issue.

my pet peeve - rating-conscious players  who do everything and everything possible in this world to raise their rating. For me, playing the game is primary while rating is a by-product.

"I disagree about the games diagrams"

That's the thing.  A pet peeve is so personal, it doesn't even matter if it's reasonable.  So, whether anyone, or everyone, agrees is totally irrelevant.

But I think it's facinating to find out what really annoys people.