what knife features you hate most on knives?

I've never been a fan of choils. Often enough, whatever I'm cutting seems to slide up the blade and catch in them. Large choils also take away one of the most useful parts of the blade. Never once found a choil useful for anything either. Having said all that, I know some people like them, to each their own.
 
Personally I love choils...As for things I hate, I can't stand chisel grinds and I'm not a huge fan of metal handles or thumbstuds.
 
useless choils. either make it a micro choil, or a large useable one. don't like in-between.
rounded spines. can't use my firesteel on it.
starting the knife grind too low. prefer high sabre grind or just full flat.
not a fan of the blood groove either.
 
Bunch of haters in here ;). I personally hate straight handles on knives, guards that extends to both sides of the blade, aggressive tanto points, straight edge knives with a few exceptions, huge thumbstuds, knives WITHOUT jimping, oh and anything with unnecessary holes in the blade and/or handle.
 
Number 1 hate is flippers.
The rest, in no particular order are;
assisted opening
reverse tanto or any blade which curves down from the spine to the blunted point.
long handles with short blades
blades that don't have the cutting edge for their entire length
chisel grinds
 
I am def not a tanto fan! Chisel grinds no thank you. Hate knives that shud have jimping that dont! Hate when makers leave the inside edges on the handles sharp. Have a Fallkniven that is a beauty but I dont carry her bc of the sharp edges on the inside of the handle. Hate people that bash SOG! You get what you pay for!
 
I generally stay clear of knives with:

Silly advertising or military/ops wannabe marketing
Skulls and other death-fetish crap
Serrations
 
Useless space. Makes no sense to have a 5" handle and 3" blade. Either make the whole knife smaller, or take advantage of the extra space for more blade length. I love the really compact knife handles that fit in as much blade as possible.
 
When the tip of the blade hits inside the handle to stop the blade closing instead of the kick hitting, ah la the Mercator and EKA knives and others.
 
Forgot about the American Tanto blade...they just look way too tacticlol for me and in my opinion don't really serve that much of a purpose.
 
These threads are stupid because there is no useful information to gather from the random preferences of people about a tool with such diversity in design and purpose as the knife.
 
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