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Exactly.
Enjoy!
regards,
True Blue Tao
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That’s not textspeak, that’s LOLcat.
How many people, reading and posting in this very new thread, are thinking: “Yakuza!”
And I’m thinking: If there were such a rule, how fast would Yakuza have been told to knock it off, or worse, been gagged or banned? Problem being, that squelches a certain degree of… how shall I call it? … distinctive personality that some members may bring to this board in their posts. He definitely brings come unique views, and some of his threads have stimulated much on-going discussion (not necessarily all of it amicable, but still…) Forcing him, of all people, into a mold would just be so wrong. (Note, by the way, how many other posters in Yakuza’s threads have adopted his conventions when posting responses in those threads. Hey, can’t we still have a little fun here?)
That said, perhaps offenses at that level should just be best left to the moderators’ discretion, capricious though that sometimes is. Note, for example, that Marley23 is now insisting that Yakuza spell out his words when he posts elsewhere:
(I’m more bothered by that off-topic mini-flame-war that’s broken out between two other people in one of his threads, having nothing much to do with anything Yakuza ever wrote.)
I’m OK with most of that. But “U” “2” and “4” are annoying.
Cut the dude some slack for a while longer. He’s getting better. In another nearby thread (the one in Great Debates, I think, about The Struggle For Financial Comfort Needs To Stop he’s still writing 2 a lot but spelling out “for”! I counted 9 times in the OP alone. Da guy is learning! 
I would so be writing LOL all the time. 
So it’s unenforceable, and unneeded, except in Great Debates?
Where it’s too annoying to bear?:rolleyes:
I don’t think anyone seriously expects the mods to hear or respond to the requests of the members, on this or anything else.
But that’s just ridiculous, in my opinion, and makes the moderation, of the board, seem unnecessarily arbitrary and silly.
Either it should be foisted on everyone, even Great Debates, or no one.
“Y’all are talking about a company rule that you can just start farting in a crowded elevator, but how many people hearing that rule are thinking ‘Geroge!’”
No, sorry. we’re not losing some sort of distinctive personality, a wonderfully unique snowflake of awesomeness. The Dope has pretty much always not tolerated obnoxiously lazy, sloppy and/or childish writing styles. We just don’t do it. And we don’t need moderator action in general, because we’re not schmucks and we’re perfectly capable of making someone feel unwelcome if they don’t follow community standards. The only real reason that Yak drew mod fire is because of the significant possibility that his whole schtick is a put on.
The idea that a voluntarily homeless man who is afraid of the Illuminati, spends 1/2 of his income on whores and thinks God wants him to live in a public park until the year 2025… well, the idea that he’s presenting a viewpoint that needs to be shared on the Dope is somewhat nutty. And that’s taking the rather large assumption that he’s serious.
You mean “Comiced”. Sans just means “without”.
I could do without one sentence paragraphs as well. And while it wasn’t done above, people that do their own word-wrap should stop doing that as well.
The way I see it, that puts the style issue comfortably under the “don’t be a jerk” rule, which is already official.
If your style is irritating a significant number of people here, and you’re aware of that fact and make no attempt to conform to the board’s style conventions, then you’re being a jerk. Unfortunately, putting it under that rule makes it a lot more difficult to enforce, because who’s to say whether someone’s annoying enough to be kicked out of the treehouse? It would open the door to a lot of criticism and accusations of unfairness in moderation. But making spelling and grammar rules “official” seems unnecessarily stodgy.
I don’t like saying it’s a matter of degrees, a “I know it when I see it” sort of thing, but there is a big difference between skipping capitalization and using 2 and 4 and U everywhere. The first is at least easy to read and understand. As for the different standards being upheld in Great Debates, I don’t see a problem with it. There’s already a noticeable difference in posting style between MPSIMS and GD, which fits with their difference in tone and usual subject matter. I see nothing wrong with holding GD to a higher standard.
Just what we need-more sanscrit.
This. We will lose at least half of out mocking and shaming fun. But I don’t agree with ‘ostracize’, that would also prevent half of our mucking and shaming fun.
An anecdote that almost rises to the level of relevant and interesting (but not quite):
When I first started texting I wrote things like “u” and “2” and my kids told me to stop doing that because nobody texts that way. They do use some abbreviations like “np”, but Yakuza’s “texts” would annoy even teenagers.
It doesn’t look good for 6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast.
I smell of spunkcat?
Yes, there’s trouble, right here in River City. Soon everyone will be saying “swell” if the young aren’t stopped from sliding into the gutter by banning them.
We must save them from themselves. We must save ourselves from ourselves!
While we’re at it, we should ban those who insist on using lazy, misspelled and delinquent-inducing American English. Better yet, the board should be programmed to change such spellings into decent, rest-of-the-world English. There’s nothing lazier and more leet than program, favor and color, and spelling words by using z because that’s how they sound.
Give the search-and-destroy programme a personality. Call it Miss Grundy. It will break into busy work every time there’s a spare cycle and scan for leet Americanisms in every message ever posted and ban all those who dare use it. Then it can take a tape measure to everyone’s head, and ban those whose hair is too long, like those Beatle people’s.
Not reading an annoying post is not an option!
… we also need to ourselves from everyone else, and it almost goes without saying that we need to save everyone else from us.
That’s correct. Because you cannot identify it as annoying or not annoying until it has been read. Good police work, Kenm.