Tell Us What Sucks - How It Works

There are two ways to Tell Us What Sucks. From the home page, you can pick a listing out of the tag cloud – say, “Shakespeare” – and click on it. There you’ll find all the people who think Shakespeare sucks, and why. If you agree, hit the “I agree!” button. Add in why you think it sucks, toss in a tag or two, hit “Submit,” and you’re on your merry way.

The easier way is to start a new listing. Just type your entry in that huge “Share your feelings” box on the front page, and it will take you to the “Why Does This Suck?” box. Sometimes you might want to be general, sometimes you might want to be specific. So depending on your mood, it might be “Cary Grant” that sucks, or “Cary Grant Movies,” or ”Cary Grant Scenes in Father Goose,” etc. It’s up to you, so just crank it in and start complaining.

Note that we reserve the right to merge categories. If someone wants to rant about Ronald Reagan, and starts a new category called Ronald Raygun, we’ll likely merge those two together if we happen to notice them. Similarly, if you enter a posting on William Jefferson Clinton when everyone else is harping on Bill Clinton, we’ll probably merge those—again, if we notice them. We won’t be editing the “whys” of your listings, though, just the categories names, so that everybody knows just how many people think Reagan and Clinton suck.

You can’t enter a listing without a unique username and password. That way, we know you’re not coming back two hundred times a day to complain about Mr. Fiedelmayer, your high school math teacher.

You can’t agree with your own listing, and you can’t agree with a listing more than once (see paragraph above). You can add multiple entries on a single subject if you want, by being increasingly specific about things that suck: Cleveland Sucks, Downtown Cleveland Sucks, The Cleveland Indians Suck, the Cleveland Orchestra Sucks, etc., etc. Each of those is a different category, though, and since this is a democracy, each will just end up down at the bottom of the relevant list. So go ahead, we don’t mind.

You can’t post libelous speech, or hate speech, or pornographic speech, or any kind of speech that’s in violation of the law. We completely reserve the right to remove speech at our own discretion. Offensive and illegal speech will be taken down from the site, and you will be warned. If you are identified as a consistent violator of that principle, you will be barred from the site at our complete and total discretion. We don’t think that this will be a serious problem: web communities have consistently demonstrated a generalized intolerance for schmucks and losers, and tend to isolate them. We look forward to continuing that trend.

You must have the courage of your convictions. If you think something sucks, you can’t just type it in, you have to give us a reason. You have to state your opinion and why you believe it.

The reason is simple: you, the users of TellUsWhatSucks.com, hold all of the opinions expressed on this site. We, as owners of this website, have no opinions of any kind; we’re just collecting complaints for all the world to see. (As individuals, sure, we do have opinions, which is why we started all this in the first place. But those personal opinions do not reflect the opinion of TellUsWhatSucks.com, its owners, its investors, etc., etc. For more clarification on that and other legal mumbo jumbo, you have to go to the Terms And Conditions page.)

At the same time, you are allowed to post things anonymously, in one of two ways. You can agree with someone else’s posting anonymously, but only if you are logged in; we need to know that you are a unique user agreeing with that sentiment, not just someone repetitively clicking it. And of course, you can join under a pseudonym, calling yourself Twinkletoes, or BigStudOnCampus, or ButterflyFriend, or something equally inane, as people do at other sites. We do suggest, however, that if you are sitting in the office deciding that “My Boss at [Your Company’s Name Here] Sucks,” you think for a moment whether or not the company’s software is tracking its users and knows that you’re the only one in the company using the website at that moment …

So there’s the courage of your convictions, and then there’s just plain being dumb. It’s your choice, and we take no responsibility for how you exercise it.