I suppose I should have to see a cite for that
SSG Schwartz
Shryn King: Doesn’t the OP have the right to determine the content of his threads. 
Kuboydal et al: Of course I can take it I am just too willing to give it away.
SSG Schwartz
Not to be the punctuation police but…you need to end that sentence with a period.
Furthermore, it’s 2007; shouldn’t we by now be judged on the content of our characters, not our threads?
Not to nitpick, but I prefer when members highlight names in “bold” so they’re more recognizable.
Not to nitpick, but impersonating punctuation police is a crime under the laws of grammer.
And BBS2K, a minor nitpick, but again, my rules in my thread.
SSG Schwartz
I have a poetic licensce.
That may be in whatever format you’re referencing, but in many others that isn’t necessary. For example, according to the Associated Press, the only letter that needs to be capitalized in an article title is the first one (and any proper nouns and acronyms). If I’m reading the entry on composition titles in the stylebook correctly, then chapter titles are to be treated similarly. The question is now whether threads on message boards are to be dealt with in the same way as chapters and newspaper articles or as separate compositions/works themselves. Do they contain enough context to be treated as independent entities, or are they dependent upon the framework provided by the message board? If you take the chapter out of a book or an article out of a newspaper, they still make sense on their own, but you still don’t capitalize as you would for a larger work.
An entirely separate issue is whether or not you should apply the rules or formal English to casual communications such as discussions on message boards or personal correspondence.
SSG Schwartz, it’s grammar, the misspelling of which I believe you will discover is a capital offense under the laws of grammar. Incidentally, so are unnecessary ellipses. So sorry, gentlemen. A cigarette before meeting Messieurs Smith and Wesson?
Misspellings are not grammatical mistakes. Grammar, specifically refers to the rules of the construction of sentences.
And I hate to be picky, but we really ought to wait until dawn for the gunplay. It’s traditional.
Far be it from me to be a grammar gnome, but I believe you have added a superfluous comma. I might suggest: “Grammar specifically refers to the rules of the construction of sentences.” One could perhaps countenance “Grammar, specifically, refers to the rules of the construction of sentences,” as a matter of style, but I think it an inelegant construction. Therefore, I respectfully submit, kind sir, that you have either one too many commas, or one too few.
FTR, Miss Purl, Smith and Wesson is American made, so French titles should not be applied. It should be MR’s…
SSG Schwartz
That’s the way they do it with both English-language dailies over here, just the first word and names capped.
But I prefer uppercase for thread titles.
OP can refer to either the original post or the original poster. You should be more specific if you don’t want people to nickpick you personally.
Um, I believe you meant to include a hyphen in American-made.
Also, the poster you are addressing is properly referred to as Miss Purl McKnittington. Your shortening of her screen name suggests a familiarity which is most untoward in a scholarly discussion such as this.
Pardon me, Sternvogel, but you may cast unfair aspersions on the rich history of academia by implying that this nitpicking is in fact a scholrly discussion.
Cite?
FYI, MY lagomorph, who was the best lagomorph in the History of Ever, was named Bunny, and she was a she. Her current location is nowhere near your backyard, unless your backyard is in the vicinity of Cascadilla Gorge. It is not in my backyard, as that was a rental, and I am now a proud homeowner in a different (and much better, IMO) state.
I must sternly admonish you for a faulty nitpick, Sternvogel. No hyphen is called for in a compound adjective that follows the noun it modifies (see *CMS *14th 6.40). If you are using another stylebook, please be prepared to cite.
Nitpick: you capitalized my initials. I hate that. You’re lucky I don’t Pit you for it.
Being as you were clearly done with her, I took the liberty of removing Bunny from where you left her. I renamed her Mr Floppy in order to make a clean break with the past. But when I realized she was not going to learn any new tricks, I reburied her in my backyard.
You may have a poetic license; what you need is a spelling license.
Nitpick your nitpick: That should be, take you to the Pit, or start a Pit thread about you, unless you plan to place me in a pit or treat me like a NASCAR vehicle and fill me with gas and lube my chassis.
SSG Schwartz