Rules ... or how to stay a member of IS!
« on: December 05, 2008, 08:33:40 pm
No leet/text speak - eg: Lets c whu cn m@ke teh most complic@ted l33t spek ev@rr is not acceptable. A lot of users here have English as a second language and have a hard enough time understanding as it is. To that end, please make an effort to use proper grammar and spelling. We don't expect everyone to have perfect textbook English, but the clearer you are, the better you will be understood, and the more response you'll get to help questions, or any post in general. We are not the grammar police here and understand typos happen and not everyone is a perfect speller, but if you're not using periods, commas, capital letters and a reasonable semblance of accurate spelling out of pure laziness, we will call you on it.
The full text this was taken from is located
here. Please comply with these from now on, thank you very much.
I'm not trying to pick on you, but seeing a post such as the one you left makes me lose interest in wishing to help out if you can't be courteous enough to use forum manners to make your request legible to all of our users. Losing interest in helping folks is a bad thing, especially when they just glance over your text and decide not to bother because it looks like something out of a text message. Trust me, when you use a full size keyboard, there is no limit to being able to use the shift key to get capital letters for the words that need them.