New Rule: Acceptable format for posted dialogue (suggestion)

PMS is a bitch.

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LOL!!
%^&@# I did it again. Its a sickness. I can't be held responsible for LOLing.

 

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Be careful in your judgements. Your perspectives are being skewed by the appreciation for her return showed by those who know her. Don't fault her for the congratulatory responses to her posts. They'll fade away to normal after she's been around a bit and things settle back in to normalcy.

Just because someone looks down on Barbie doesn't mean they 'can't get over themselves'.
Even our resident dummies look down on Barbie.

 

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What do you think the glory days were like?

 

And when you're looking down you miss the shit flying above.

 

warm and sunny and nice and sweet

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and everyone had thicker skin and could handle a cunt or two

 

Heh.

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=32212

Right about the cunts, that's for sure.

 

Not really.
As in the case of BarbieGirl (again, **not singling her out or anything**, just using her as an example), she's using a form of communication that's totally common within the realm of AOL chat/cellphone messaging. It's not a limited phenomenon, and there are bound to be more participants in the future who show up using it.
Having the rule in place would be instructions describing what's considered ideal. I think it would be a much more appropriate message than tons of veteran users ridiculing the offenders. It would basically mean "an acceptable form of communication needs to be used to participate".

I'm sure there's a not-overbearing way to pull this off.

 

Does anyone miss Donnal?

 

I certainly wasn't suggesting 'tons of veteran users' ridiculing....
I find I can't read barbie. Or don't. Or something in between those.
I think, given the fact that others do, she is communicating effectively to those people. Or they are acting strangely and against their own interests.

 

Oh I missed those cunts. I was always asleep when the americans and canadians were in. They still induce the same response in me now.

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Puck up your arse, eh!

 

It happens every time I bend over!

 

You personally do it the right way, but for a lot of others - ridicule is what *currently* happens whenever any new user enters the forum, and posts in minimalist/phonetic jargon. People don't tend to ignore them - rather they consciously take the time to rake them across the coals about it.

Assuming someone does make the rule, the reason I keep suggesting a "non-draconian" approach to it is because the same jargon is accepted in instances where it is not the primary vehicle for all communications (read: small doses). In times where someone is using it as a joke, or a few popular acronyms (examples: ROFL, LOL, BTW, FTW) don't seem particularly bad. There are also posters like Asgard who post with a few typos/misspellings here and there, but it doesn't detract from the "meat" of what he's trying to say.

 

Why would you have to even ask that? Don't you MODS KNOW EVERYTHING?

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You have the hots for barbie.

Admit it.

All this trouble over lolspeek and leetspeek

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I like totally support this i c y it cud be a problem if ppl like talk like they r texting all the time


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Not that I'm defending her, but I've received this same schoolyard-style teasing whenever I've defended gay people (you're statement is supportive, Therefore you are gay).

Actually, I'm just tired of seeing newspeak, and tired of seeing people complain about it. Someone should chisel up a new commandment.

 

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I like this idea about formatting very much.
But, I'm afraid that would be a sort of censorship.

Acronyms and abbreviations are spicing up discussion sometimes, but I admit that I'm getting rash when I'm reading Runescape/IM chat all over.

*Panthenol mode*

However, rule about proper formatting could be applied in certain forums (science subforums, formal debate,etc.), but not in all forums definitely.

Otherwise, I would again gain epithet of

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When idea about Knowledge Base was active, I've set up a few guidelines how KB article should look like (footnotes, citations,...).
That could be easily applied to forums discussion as well or at least to certain threads marked as alpha, sci, etc.

I'm again interested in applying article idea, this time through the GARS, so this idea could be implemented there as well.

I would love to hear more suggestions how this would work, trying to avoid discrimination toward any member.

 

:bugeye:Learn... something... here?!