Hello,
While I wait for USCIS to act on my case I'd like to start this thread so people come vent what their pet peeves are about this forum. For me a few things come to mind:
1. The single poster. This is a guy or gal who posts a rather urgent sounding message claiming that the sky is falling down. Good folks in the forum rush to answer the questions to the best of their abilities, and the single poster never cares to come back to bring closure to the issue or an update. There is a subtype of the single poster which is the doubly single poster, i.e. only posts a message in the thread and it is the first and last message ever posted in the forum.
2. The contrived case: Some posts look artificially created. Corner cases, with subtle twists, with enough details to make it believable, but overall they throw a stink of somebody posting it as a bait to get people work and spend time in solving it. In the past there were several cases on the adjustment of status forums of people clearly posting this type of messages. Many of this are single posters too.
3. The meandering thread: The thread starts with good intentions, but then it takes a detour and starts either a personal flame war, or just changes subject completely and starts discussing how nice the weather is in such or such part of the world.
4. People like me: Who some times take themselves too seriously, and can become judgemental, patronizing or dismissive with novel posters, even against our best intentions
Anyway, kudos for having such a great forum to exchange information about immigration. This forum has been very valuable for me in the past and continues to be so.
My 2 cents.
While I wait for USCIS to act on my case I'd like to start this thread so people come vent what their pet peeves are about this forum. For me a few things come to mind:
1. The single poster. This is a guy or gal who posts a rather urgent sounding message claiming that the sky is falling down. Good folks in the forum rush to answer the questions to the best of their abilities, and the single poster never cares to come back to bring closure to the issue or an update. There is a subtype of the single poster which is the doubly single poster, i.e. only posts a message in the thread and it is the first and last message ever posted in the forum.
2. The contrived case: Some posts look artificially created. Corner cases, with subtle twists, with enough details to make it believable, but overall they throw a stink of somebody posting it as a bait to get people work and spend time in solving it. In the past there were several cases on the adjustment of status forums of people clearly posting this type of messages. Many of this are single posters too.
3. The meandering thread: The thread starts with good intentions, but then it takes a detour and starts either a personal flame war, or just changes subject completely and starts discussing how nice the weather is in such or such part of the world.
4. People like me: Who some times take themselves too seriously, and can become judgemental, patronizing or dismissive with novel posters, even against our best intentions
Anyway, kudos for having such a great forum to exchange information about immigration. This forum has been very valuable for me in the past and continues to be so.
My 2 cents.