I learned this in detail while studying computer programming- the way a program is laid out makes a huge difference in comprehension.
Programmers talk about white space on a page as part of the composition and formatting.
Gosh, it looks like we’re heading for a happy resolution here. What’s wrong with the Pit anymore?
I think I’m about to log off for the night, but thank you all for letting me know where my blind spots were. You’re welcome to those who thanked me. Take care, and hopefully we can have some awesome discussions in the future 
~Gateway~
Oh, goody. Another fuckwit with a “message.”
Banned by Monday morning is my bet.
Right, just ignore his apparent change of heart and growing comprehension:rolleyes:…
I’m sorry but explain to me how typing the “@” symbol is faster than typing at.
Both involve two key strokes on a standard keyboard.
Is it not ‘faster’ is is simply a purposeful substitution for not other reason than ‘style’. We are not texting here. Here we write. Now if you want to join us, join us. If you want to go sit at the kids table, please do so.
I agree, You’re much too good to be posting on this MB. Leave these assholes behind-- it’s their loss that you won’t be posting here in the future! C u L8er!
Thank you to the OP for recognizing valid criticism and changing. Good for you!
And to everyone else, as annoying as the original posting style was, it’s equally rare to have a new poster accept valid criticism and change. Kumbaya.
Fuck off.
Fuck on.
Fuck up.
Fuck around.
Just get the fuck out of here.
Grammer is Gramper’s wife. Do you know nothing? Dumb question all things considered.
(since Gateway won’t get that, someone tell him how to spell grammar)
All the more thank you for making the effort, then.
And I do get your frustration, to a point. Sometimes people on here can be, uh… sticklers when it comes to proper grammar. This isn’t entirely without reason: ultimately, every conversation is an exchange between people, and agreeing on certain rules for this exchange just means that everyone is on the same level, that nobody claims some privileged position for themselves, such as expecting others to work on understanding him, while investing no work to be as intelligible as possible. But here as elsewhere, it’s easy to confuse the means and the ends: proper grammar facilitates conversation on equal footing, but it’s not a good in itself; there’s plenty of bullshit with impeccable grammar around. Ultimately, there needs to be a mutual effort of neither judging the book by its cover, nor shifting the burden of work involved in every conversation entirely onto one party.
All’s well that ends well.
I’m really glad I didn’t see this until now and that I read the whole thread before replying. Thank you for being willing to read our collective point of view and changing your posting style quickly. It really speaks well of you as a person and new Doper.
One thing I’d like to add, not because you need any more convincing or anything, but just because I think it’s interesting: when I read posts like your first one, not even considering the content, just the style, my impression is that the writer is itching for a fight, is unwilling to put forth much effort, and is unwilling to change. These are my prejudices/preconceptions, and I wasn’t really aware of them until this thread. Obviously, in just a few hours, your demonstrated that you’re not any of those things that I thought you were reading the first few posts.
So, I’m going to work to try to be more aware of my bias, and not jump down the throat of posters who use textspeak. I will continue to ask them not to do it here, and perhaps save this thread so they can see some great arguments against it and a wise person who decided to change when presented with those arguments. But I will try to do so without a preconception that they’re going to resist and never change. Without the snark that I would otherwise employ on a poster I consider a “drive-by” or otherwise too annoying/stupid/stubborn to waste time on.
I would not have had this epiphany if you’d dug your heels in. So thank you for not digging your heels in, both because it will make your future posts easier to read, and also because it taught me a little something about the world and about myself this morning. And it’s not even 9am! 
I see an OP who’s future will include a personal interest in raising the minimum wage.
“whose future”.
You know, while we’re grammar-Naziing and all that.
But if no one will actually read what an illiterate moron such as yourself wrote, then you didn’t get your message across, now did you? And if you piss off your readers with your illiterate scrawl, so they don’t pay any attention to your message, then, again, you didn’t get your message across.
Idiot.
He’s agreed to stop it. Can we lay off now?
But that would necessitate reading the entire thread before leaping in! Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Nm
Why? He’s merely agreed not to be an idiot here. But, have you looked at the other 5 or 6 threads he’s posted in? Get a grip, he’s nothing more than a lawn gnome trying to be a troll.