Sure, I remember you now, since you so kindly linked to your massive 'tard flail in your first return post to this thread. If you’d had the sense God gave to the common lung fluke, you’d have kept quiet about that and coasted back in under the radar. Instead, you walked in the front door wearing your favorite, “Mock me, I’m a moron,” t-shirt.
I’ve got the sneaking suspicion that you’ll be a temporary irritant, at best.
Here is the point, jackass, unlike the message boards you apparently frequent, in this one posters are expected to type in standard English and follow the rules of capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. You apparently have a problem grasping that basic concept, as you keep repeating your mistaken notion that because this is a message board (or, in some cases, because this is on the Internet) those rules don’t apply.
Are you familiar with the saying, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”? In case you aren’t, it means that you should adapt to the customs of a place when you visit there. A practice that most people seem to be able to follow, unless they either are being deliberately annoying or are mentally deficient.
I leave the determination as to which you are as an exercise for the reader.
It actually doesn’t bother me all that much either - I mean, it’s a little annoying that some twit is trying to import Teh Stoopid that they find elsewhere on the internet into the SDMB, but I don’t really think that the rest of the people here are going to abandon their manners, educations, and self-respect and join the noob in posting in moron speak.
And heck, sometimes people take a little while to realize that, while much of the internet (but less of it than you pretend) has abandoned all pretense of civilization, we have not. Those people get a bit of a pass from me - other people will inform them of the error of their ways soon enough without me bothering.
Though there are some dipshits who think that we should respect their god-given right to post like illiterate first-graders, and perhaps even praise them for their brilliant acts of linguistic sabotage. These people are, of course, complete fucking morons. Some of us have standards here, even if you do not. If you don’t like it, you have my permission to leave. Any time you like.
So you do understand the concept! We see your posts and their style makes us not want you.
Ah, but this isn’t the stupid part of the internet. This is the part of the internet has and conveys information, not random mindless glurge. You know, like information sites. If you write an informational site, even a wiki, in the style you’re currently using, it will be shit. Well, it’s the same around here. Comments in your style are shit here.
Bzzt! Wrong, you lose. The english language comes with rules about spelling and grammar and capitalization and punctuation. They’ve been there all along and remain still. Sure, there are places where it’s culturally acceptable to eschew some of those rules, such in discussions between toddlers and on some message boards on the stupid half the internet. This is not such a place. If you are only comfortable in such places, well, you know where you can find them. Have fun!
We already know that you’re a dick. You don’t need to put extra effort into proving it.
Who decides there’s ‘no rules’ for message boards, anyway? You write neatly in business communication because you know you won’t be taken seriously otherwise. The people reading your proposals will laugh at you, and if they have authority you might be called on for unprofessionalism. Likewise, the shmucks over at Something Awful may not give a crap about spelling or punctuation. Hell, for all I know some might even mock proper spelling.
But they do have one thing in common: they’re your audience. You write to your audience if you want to be taken seriously. Failure to do that earns you ridicule, regardless of whether or not you believe there is some Great Authority that dictates what level of care should be taken for a host of different contexts. Here, deliberately flouting proper punctuation because you’re a pissy, defensive little bitch gets you laughed at.
I’m hard pressed to see your posts as anything other than trolling, which is against our rules. You’re deliberately baiting everyone in the thread to make a spectacle of yourself and cause a ruckus. Do not continue trolling in this or any other thread.
Also - as a poster, not a moderator - I’ll note that our culture here is to communicate in a coherent manner. You make yourself come across as a fool when you are called out for your sloppy posts. It shows a lack of respect for this community and other users.
miller, it was very interesting-i see that we can post for free again and what is the first post i see???
this one with another pseudo-intellectual whining about someone not using correct whatever
what a coinkidink, eh?
and by the way, miller, go back and read that thread. you and your torch and pitch fork carrying village lamebrains looked like fucking idiots in that thread
so in conclusion, my fellow dopers, it is good to be back
Well, I bow to your superior friends, family, co-workers, and business associates. As much as I’d love to act as smugly disdainful as you, everyone I know would think I’m an asshole and I’d be fired from my job.