Agreed, but a pet peeve is when you ask a question on StackOverflow, and get asked why you're doing it, the answer to which isn't need to respond to the post at

Agreed, but a pet peeve is when you ask a question on StackOverflow, and get asked why you're doing it, the answer to which isn't need to respond to the post at all. But they want to know. Fine. Fair enough. So you tell them, and then they proceed to tell you that that's not what you should do, and instead should do something else. So now you have multiple comments in your post that has nothing to do with anything. It's just noise and a waste of time. Also, maybe I have a very good reason for why I want to do something and I'm not really willing to tell the world because proprietary in nature. People are just overly nosey, or as usual, they understand that your domain is their domain, so we have have the same problems :)