1. formatting; 2. choice of subsection

[bennyboy]

In my opinion, any formatting which has only the purpose of drawing attention to oneself in favor of others should be considered bad manners, and if persistent should be restrained by mods.  I'd include the following:
-unnecessary overuse of special fonts: extra-sized ones, all-caps, poorly-contrasting colors, all italics or bold.  Nobody is more special than anyone else, and I think any obvious attempt to make one's own contributions stand out visually should be either prohibited or discouraged.

I thought this was already considered bad etiquette anyway? Isn't bad etiquette already discouraged?

No. Not only was it not discouraged, it was actively supported as a mode of liberty and self-expression.

One more thing, though I've never seen it: I think videos or gifs with a lot of flashing should be required to be put in hide quotes and marked for epilepsy.  My recent episode may/may not have come from residual effects of childhood epilepsy-- I was kind of half-strobing or something.  I recognize that's pretty rare and was unpredictable, but there are some more obvious cases that are very likely to cause problems for a significant minority of people.  Some meme gifs, for example, flash contrasting colors very fast.

With all due respect, I think it's a little naive to expect everyone else on the internet to provide you with a "WARNING FLASHING IMAGES" sign.

The event in question was due purely to font and couldn't possibly have been predicted. The epilepsy suggestion is just a suggestion. It's pretty rare that fast-flashing images are used, anyway, but I figured I'd add it to the list.

2.
Reasonable adherence to Section/subsection and to OP

I think that OPs should be expected to adhere to the spirit of a section.  A particular peeve of mine is clearly-religious themes getting posted in philosophy.  I don't care if some guy wants to quote scripture, but unless it is relevant to the philosophical question at hand, I'd prefer it to start and stay in the Religion sections.  Another peeve happens when the majority have given up arguing with an OP, and start posting cat memes or headslap memes or irrelevant content that derails the thread; it's clearly deliberate, and just because the majority has become bored doesn't mean the OP or a minority arguer (e.g. a religious guy) should be shut out and shut down.  A more appropriate exit would be, "I think this thread is going nowhere, so I'm going to bow out" followed by radio silence.

*snore*

What a boring place this would be if we didn't have thread derailing of bullshit threads from time to time.


But meh, my opinion counts for 0.

No, I think your opinion counts for 1. Or 2, if you type everything in all-caps.