The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #76172   Message #1346861
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
03-Dec-04 - 08:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: What constitutes a bad post?
Subject: RE: BS: What constitutes a bad post?
I generally make it a point to ignore posts when it's plainly obvious that some twelve-year-old kid has gotten hold of the computer while Mom and Dad are off to the pub.

For that matter, I don't read posts that completely lack any attempt at proper punctuation and capitalization. Yes, I know there are some regular contributors to this forum that use the "no-caps-no-puctuation" style, but, if you're one of 'em, dig this: I don't read your posts!

Listen up! Punctuation is a convention that allows the pauses, inflections and other nuances of spoken language to be communicated via the written page. We damned sure don't speak by running our words all together with no pauses or changes of inflection, so why would anybody want to write like that?

Oh, you mean it's my job to figure it out? Screw you!