I warmly support the OP’s position … except regarding ellipses.
My impression is that the poster that Skald refers to is actually male pretending to be female. I think this poster believes that forgoing capitals, using odd spacing, and otherwise employing a faux-e.e.-cummings approach will make readers more likely to believe the poster is female.
I can’t prove it. But my spidey sense tells me it is so.
Some people look better wet.
[Kent Brockman]We’ll all be taking golden showers tonight![/kb]
Ditto.
I am an ellipsist as well. They just looks so much more elegant than an em-dash … and funner to type too.
Actually I like your user name. I’ve considered stealing for it myself, but I’d have to kill too many people for it to be worthwhile.
Wait, Miller changed his name?
Are they essays or conversations. ?
I would argue that people say “general consensus” to be explicit about what constitutes “any important part of the concerned interests” in your definition. If someone says to me “the consensus was x,” without explicit context, I’m wondering who consented to x, and how explicitly. If they say “the general consensus was x,” I know that they mean “nobody detectably disagreed.” I think of it as less formal and more…general.
Sailboat
Since I somehow got dragged into this, I’ll say I automatically lose respect for anyone who doesn’t at least try. Yeah, I write casually and to my audience, but I still capitalize and make with the periods. Just because the Hindi language doesn’t use capitals doesn’t mean I should carry it over to English. What a strange thought.
I mentioned you and AB because you’re both prolific posters who are now guests, and with free posting it’s no longer easy to tell who’s a newbie and who isn’t.
So as an added bonus, you’ve given us your personal opinion? 
look at your second paragraph. “thread currently…”
what the fuck? shouldn’t it be “The” thread…?
worry about your own writing, barney fife, there are no rules about grammar and punctuation (or spelling).
deal with it you sensitive flower
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exactly!
I generally don’t write them back at all.
Unless I know them and their extenuating circumstances. But generally, I have found people who have that little concern for their own writing don’t have much worthwhile to say.
TWDR
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Apologies for the double post, but there’s a glitch somewhere. I didn’t alter teela’s post, I swear. I quoted and posted, and it appeared without caps.
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yes, life IS too short to read your crappy writing. are you too lazy to write “LIFE IS too short” instead of “LIFE’S” too short.
you fucking barney fife, anal retentive, elitist pseudo intellectuals should focus more on what people are attempting to convey instead of looking down your noses at them.
Especially when you are making errors in your own writing.
that is for teela and all you morons who agree with him (her) who usually have no original thoughts so you nitpick. nitpick on a fucking internet message board.
Oh, that’s just poor editing. My poor post-editing skills are legendary. Epic, even. An entire fit of the Poetica Edda is dedicated to them. (During a time-travel accident **Fabulous Creature **was doubtlessly responsible for, Weyland the Smith was spent several months posting on the Dope; he left enraged at yours truly.)