At least make an effort.

Ok, so I read a thread, and it was full of the typical newb typing. Mostly lower-cased, short-hand typing (b, 2, u, ur, etc), and whatnot. I don't really mind reading it, but dammit, at least make an effort to type more properly. It's not tough to spell the small words like you, to, be, and anything else that you would usually shorten. Sure, you can do that in emails or in chatrooms, but this is a forum, and you should at least put more effort to typing and spelling correctly. It's not that hard to do. So what if "short-hand typing" saves time, because you're still wasting time reading and lurking the forums anyway, so at least use the time you're wasting to put effort into typing when you post.

Anyway, that's all. Feel free to vent if you agree or disagree with this, and let's also talk about some of the things that annoys you when you're at a forum, such as this.

i dunno wat ur takin bout here?
i tak propur english
u cant speek it well
so don go blamin us kids fr sumfink bout how bad ar spellin is
;)

Sorry I guess I should be more efficient with my typing. I do that stuff a lot.

anyway crap that annoys me is whenever anybody types in what people call 1337, numbers or symbols in words, names, anything like that, just annoying

by the way who didnt see it commin that someone would intentionally be ironic

@$$
$#!t
%@&*
w\e

nvm

jk

brb

gtg

there are tons more
;)

:cry: Proto...you mah hero dawg!

*represents*

As long as I can understand it, I don't really care.

Whatever Proto says is the law of the land.

Well, you're the one to talk Mr. I use 0's instead o's in my custom rank.

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Originally Posted by Levian

Well, you're the one to talk Mr. I use 0's instead o's in my custom rank.

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I never said anything about what goes on in the profile. Just the posts in general. Does that mean PMs, or signatures, or custom ranks? No. I am not condemning anyone for not putting effort, I'm just saying what I think needs to be said, of course. :P

Word up edczxcvbnm!

Welcome to AOL the internet.

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Originally Posted by Agent Proto

I never said anything about what goes on in the profile. Just the posts in general. Does that mean PMs, or signatures, or custom ranks? No. I am not condemning anyone for not putting effort, I'm just saying what I think needs to be said, of course. :P

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I'm only pulling your leg. :cool:

I try most times for proper punctuation and the like, but some times I don't feel like it, but one thing I don't do is the to = 2, you = u, and be = b, I don't do that intenionaly. But punctuation I do forgoe at times.

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Originally Posted by Levian

I'm 0nly pulling y0ur leg. :cool:

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Fixed.

I agree 110% with your here Proto. One day I will find all these short-hand "lolling" typists and force them to learn correct english by gunpoint.

I hate it when people like Proto think that they are so high-and-mighty that they have the right to judge how other people post. Who do you think you are? You should make the effort to show others respect and maybe they will make the effort to type to a level which conforms to your personal standards which you are imposing on everyone else!

(SPOILER)...almost had you there, didn't I? LAUGHEMOTICONGOESHEREBUTIFIINCLUDEITITWON'TBEUNDERTHESPOILERTAGANDYOU'LLSEEITANDWON'TFALLFORMYHILARI OUSPRANK. Hey wow, I typed a line in caps lock with no spaces. Naughty me!

What difference does it make? If a small thing like that irritates you, then why are you even a member of a forum?

omg proto ur so mean u shld back off b/c this isnt skool, i can type how i want ppl can read it ne wayz rite

Seriously people. Writing "2" instead of "to", "b" instead of "be", or "ne" instead of "any" saves you one freaking keystroke! Ifyoureallywanttosavetypingtime, whynotwritewithoutspaces? Itsavesmuchmoretimethanabbreviatingletters, andpeoplecanstillreadwhatyou'resaying, soit'sperfect!

Iunderstoodeveryword

Writing like that is just plain selfish because they are only thinking about saving themselves time. They're not thinking about the time it takes everybody else to decipher everything they've wrote.

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I agree 110% with your here Proto. One day I will find all these short-hand "lolling" typists and force them to learn correct english by gunpoint.

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NO U

I completely agree with Proto. Sure a few typos are acceptable, but plain time saving really annoys me.

Those people are actually better than us.

Nothing much at this forum bugs me, just EoTW and music nazis that say stuff like "HAHA YOUR MUSIC SUCKS AT LIFE" or something.

I don't bother to read those posts, so it doesn't really concern me when people type as though they were drunk monkeys.

I dont care.

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Nothing much at this forum bugs me, just EoTW and music nazis that say stuff like "HAHA YOUR MUSIC SUCKS AT LIFE" or something.

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It is

Your music sucks
and
You fail at life

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Originally Posted by GunbladeMaster

i dunno wat ur takin bout here?
i tak propur english
u cant speek it well
so don go blamin us kids fr sumfink bout how bad ar spellin is
;)

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yeah, wat up wit that? i don no wat ur takin bout. u cant read rite. i type gud.

I am God.

EDIT: I am gud

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I am God.

EDIT: I am gud

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heh...heh....

It annoys the holy buhjesus out of me.

If people want everyone to think they're stupid that's their problem. :)

is "More Properly" a proper phrase? :O

it just sounds really weird to me.

To me it's a capital offence if it's done in the Writer's Corner, other than that it doesn't bother me as long as I can understand what they're saying.

as long as it is easy to comprehend....

As long as I can make out what is being said, I don't mind. I'm not a perfect speller by any means.

It's all my fualt. /action kills himslef.

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Originally Posted by rsl

As long as I can make out what is being said, I don't mind. I'm not a perfect speller by any means.

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Yes.

Proto's just racist.

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I don't really mind reading it, but dammit, at least make an effort to type more properly.

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Win.

i dun no y pplz type lik this. It's pure laziness.

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Proto's just racist.

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It's true, I heard he called for a genocide against all people from the lovely country of Gabon. RUN, MY GABONESE FRIENDS! THE PROTO IS AFTER YOU!

I bet they can't type very well either, poor sods. They're screwed.

Maybe I'm going out on a limb here, but can this specific thread be found somewhere around here?

I don't mind stuff like "brb" and "lol" and such. But the "b"s and "2s" and crap like that annoy the heck out of me. I especially hate when I'm instant messaging someone and the conversation goes something like:

Me: No, *insert name here* is his real name.
Person: o
Person: wats ur favrit anme?
Me: *insert anime name here* ^^
Person: o
Person: kool

I mean, seriously. How hard is it to type "oh" or "what's"? Not to mention, what exactly is so great about typing "cool" incorrectly? Is it fun to let everyone know that you can't type?

I'm done for the moment :)

Does this herald the return of the Grammar Gestappo?

Personally, I'm all for it.

However, I'm AM the kind of person who's text messages are grammatically perfect, right down to the minutiae of punctuation and capitalisation.

So maybe my views are a tad extreme...

That same can't always be said for my spelling, but that's through ineptitude rather than laziness...

i make an effort to type like i do

I dare you to bring this Grammar Gestapo back. For every mistake they cite, I will work ceaslessly to expose the most overlooked and minute mistakes they may contain. I will be the voice of the people! I will not let this injustice continue!

And again, I really don't see what there is to complain about. If it bothers you that much, don't read it.

I'm somewhere inbetween all those people who are talking about how annoying it is and all those people who say they don't care too much because they just don't read the posts.

I have to read the posts, because it's in my job description as a moderator. I still skip them every now and then, but I make a point to check out what individual people are like as often as I can.

Time for some reasoning, though.

And it is a problem because we want to encourage people to join EoFF and a lot of people find it discouraging. I mean, if this site were Spanish, I wouldn't have joined, because I don't speak Spanish. Same for French, German, Afrikaans, whatever. I speak English, so I join forums where people speak English. A lot of the time, the same can be said for how people type. If you have two forums - one where they put in the effort to type correctly and one where they don't... well, I would expect that people who type well would join the place where people type well, and people who type poorly would join the place where people type poorly. If this place is getting a noticable increase of poor grammar, then to me, that's bad advertising, and I don't like it. :(