[QUOTE=FisherQueen]
Arguments should be conducted using reason and logic, with specific examples and citations wherever possible. Members are expected to keep their tempers and behave politely even when faced with opinions with which they violently disagree.
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BULLSHIT, YOU WANKER!
C’mon, you know I couldn’t resist. 
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
Some more unwritten rules:
[ul][li]Don’t use colorful fonts or difficult-to-read fonts.[/li][li]Write with at least a modicum of proper grammar and spelling.[/li][li]Don’t use “internet” spellings like “u” for “you”.[/li][li]It’s customary to bold usernames in posts.[/li][li]NO leet speek![/li][li]Don’t write in all caps.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Y D0N’T j0O STFU UP Q.E.D.
[QUOTE=mnemosyne]
Not so much a rule as a reality… the reply box (either Quick or Advanced) will wrap your text for you and make it fit the screen, there is no need to hit enter at the end of a line and make it look like the post in the OP.
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I think about this every time I see it. Where do people post these days that give them the habit to break lines on their own? Everywhere wraps lines for you.
[QUOTE=Ludovic]
Y D0N’T j0O STFU UP Q.E.D.
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Heh. Well done, sir. Well done.
take an extra second and capitalize use punctuation too some people just write the words out in a stream and it can be confusing to readers
[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
take an extra second and capitalize use punctuation too some people just write the words out in a stream and it can be confusing to readers
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You forgot to put an apostrophe in “word’s”.
[QUOTE=Chefguy]
You forgot to put an apostrophe in “word’s”.
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That’s apostrophie, silly.
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
No “LOL!”-type responses to another’s joke. If the post was genuinely funny,
respond in kind with another gag, or don’t respond at all. If it was bad, ignore it
completely (which often means you aren’t sure if the joke went over well with your
intended audience or not).
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Usually users respond with some irritating reference to spitting liquids on their keyboards. That line was funny once. For twenty minutes. In 1960. After that it became incredibly lame.
Ooh! That reminds me! Incredibly unfunny “jokes” will be repeated an infinite number of times; this can include virtually any funny moment ever on this board, stupid jokes that passed around the internet years ago like the pie thing, and lines from Monty Python. This is because there are an incredible number of unfunny people around here who apparently think they can fake it. They can’t.
[QUOTE=Ludovic]
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
Some more unwritten rules: [ul][li]Don’t use colorful fonts or difficult-to-read fonts. []Write with at least a modicum of proper grammar and spelling. []Don’t use “internet” spellings like “u” for “you”. []It’s customary to bold usernames in posts. []NO leet speek! [*]Don’t write in all caps.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Y D0N’T j0O STFU UP Q.E.D.
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That post was graped by the grapist!
Sidenote: I quit bolding usernames when they ceased being bold and became hyperlinks. I always found it kind of annoying for some reason. It seemed particularly ass-kissing in many scenarios, especially when someone would could to the defense of a highly-esteemed member and bold their name 5 or more times in one post.
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
Usually users respond with some irritating reference to spitting liquids on their keyboards. That line was funny once. For twenty minutes. In 1960. After that it became incredibly lame.
Ooh! That reminds me! Incredibly unfunny “jokes” will be repeated an infinite number of times; this can include virtually any funny moment ever on this board, stupid jokes that passed around the internet years ago like the pie thing, and lines from Monty Python. This is because there are an incredible number of unfunny people around here who apparently think they can fake it. They can’t.
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I’ve posted about my hatred for the spitting coke on the keyboard line before. The way I see it is like:
“Did you really spit coke on your keyboard?”
"Well, no . . . not really . . . "
“Well, why’d you say it?”
“Well, ummm, it’s, you know, a joke”
“But it’s a joke we’ve all heard a thousand times. You didn’t make it up and it wasn’t really funny in the first place.”
“Well, I, uhhh, ummm, geez you’re a jerk! GOSH!”
I’ll admit that a brief, one-off Monty Python reference is still funny and appropriate on occasion, but people tend to take it way too far. You’re dead on with pie.
Oh, and whoever quotes this post and says they spit coke on their keyboard won’t be funny either.
[QUOTE=Cisco]
I’ll admit that a brief, one-off Monty Python reference is still funny and appropriate on occasion, but people tend to take it way too far. You’re dead on with pie.
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What’s really pathetic and sad is when someone makes some fairly obvious, but implicit, reference to Monty Python or whatever. Someone says something about the Spanish Inquisition. And everyone knows what line comes next. We all get a smile out of it. Then some eighthwit pipes up to say, “Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!” Yes, dumbass. We all know the next line. Everybody in the world knows the next line. Children in the deepest, darkest jungles of the Amazon who have never heard of Coca-Cola know the next line.
So why did you post it? What the hell is the point of morons posting that incredibly obvious line? The joke already happened. You won’t somehow become a part of the joke by popping up afterwards to say more lines from that sketch. (Which wasn’t actually that funny to begin with.) Why do people do that? Gaaah! Why can’t people who aren’t funny stop trying?
[QUOTE=mnemosyne]
Not so much a rule as a reality… the reply box (either Quick or Advanced) will wrap your text for you and make it fit the screen, there is no need to hit enter at the end of a line and make it look like the post in the OP.
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In my case I use hard returns because of (A) long-standing habit brought about by
being primarily on Usenet for the first several years I was on the Internet, and (B)
allows me to quickly locate my own posts, which I guess is being rather presump-
tuous (wouldn’t work if enough other people did it too), but old habits die
hard…
[And yes I even hyphenize words too!]
Yep. This is one of the great mysteries of our time:
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
So why did you post it? What the hell is the point of morons posting that incredibly obvious line? The joke already happened. You won’t somehow become a part of the joke by popping up afterwards to say more lines from that sketch.
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I’m not sure who’s worse about it: the sdmb or Slashdot.
It’s like a comedy that gets 3 or 4 bad sequels. You can’t laugh at the first one anymore because the others have made you want to seperate yourself from the whole franchise.
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
In my case I use hard returns because of (A) long-standing habit brought about by
being primarily on Usenet for the first several years I was on the Internet, and
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So you were not on the Internet, then? Anyway, what newsreader did you use that turned this into an issue?
[QUOTE=silenus]
All cat posts must contain pictures!
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Oh, yeah, people who post a reply already posted because they don’t read the thread, I guess.
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff]
Oh, yeah, people who post a reply already posted because they don’t read the thread, I guess.
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Ooh, good one.
Also, people who post a reply already posted because they don’t read the thread.
Also, people who do whatever is being complained about even though this joke has been done hundreds of thousands of times before.
What makes you say that? How can one be on Usenet for the first several years of being on the Internet, and yet not be on the Internet? I’m confused. You do realize that “the Internet” is not synonymous with “the World Wide Web”, right?
Back to the OP, I think the one that catches the most newbies is that “Cite, please” should not be regarded as rude. A lot of new folks seem to think that it’s meant as an insult.
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
What’s really pathetic and sad is when someone makes some fairly obvious, but implicit, reference to Monty Python or whatever. Someone says something about the Spanish Inquisition. And everyone knows what line comes next. We all get a smile out of it. Then some eighthwit pipes up to say, “Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!” Yes, dumbass. We all know the next line. Everybody in the world knows the next line. Children in the deepest, darkest jungles of the Amazon who have never heard of Coca-Cola know the next line.
So why did you post it? What the hell is the point of morons posting that incredibly obvious line? The joke already happened. You won’t somehow become a part of the joke by popping up afterwards to say more lines from that sketch. (Which wasn’t actually that funny to begin with.) Why do people do that? Gaaah! Why can’t people who aren’t funny stop trying?
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Wow. And I thought I was surly. Just give me my frisbee back and I’ll get off of your lawn now.
[QUOTE=Chronos]
What makes you say that? How can one be on Usenet for the first several years of being on the Internet, and yet not be on the Internet? I’m confused. You do realize that “the Internet” is not synonymous with “the World Wide Web”, right?
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Yes. You do realize that the Usenet isn’t a part of the Internet, right?
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
Usually users respond with some irritating reference to spitting liquids on their keyboards. That line was funny once. For twenty minutes. In 1960. After that it became incredibly lame.
Ooh! That reminds me! Incredibly unfunny “jokes” will be repeated an infinite number of times; this can include virtually any funny moment ever on this board, stupid jokes that passed around the internet years ago like the pie thing, and lines from Monty Python. This is because there are an incredible number of unfunny people around here who apparently think they can fake it. They can’t.
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Another Unwritten Dope rule, **Excalibre ** can find a way to post a testy post in almost any thread and enjoys doing it. 
Jim