TV's Frink's Guide To Sensible Posting (Or: How Not To Be A Target) — Page 2

The names are there for the rough draft only - so that you guys would know what prompted this, as you said.  As I get this further along, I'll remove the intro (including the names) and write a new one that is non-member specific.

#22 added.

#23 added, otherwise known as the VINH rule.

TV's Frink said:

 

 

14) Abandoning Projects

21) Quoting Massive Walls of Text, Especially if You Just Say "I agree"

 

 

14) Eh. It happens. I don't think it needs a rule. It's not even so bad. Projects are HARD.

21) Isn't this just a little nitpicky? So it inconvieniences a reader for the half-second it takes to scroll down.

Maybe 14 could be altered to something along the lines of not making project commencement announcement threads until there is a reasonable chance of the project reaching fruition?

That would allow for people to voice general idea interests in existing threads and for unavoidable abandonments (such as the project being officially released anyway or a change in circumstances).

I haven't written the text for #14 yet.  I'm thinking of people who just suddenly post "I've abandoned the project" with no explanation, or people who are habitual project abandoners (JediTray, anyone?).  I wasn't referring to people who abandon a project in the right way, if you know what I mean.

#21 is nitpicky, sure.  But it irritates me, and it's my list.  :p

TV's Frink said:

I haven't written the text for #14 yet.  I'm thinking of people who just suddenly post "I've abandoned the project" with no explanation, or people who are habitual project abandoners (JediTray, anyone?).  I wasn't referring to people who abandon a project in the right way, if you know what I mean.

#21 is nitpicky, sure.  But it irritates me, and it's my list.  :p

 Well I'll gonna do MY OWN list... and #1 will be

1. No nitpicky complaints about quotes

In your face. Boo-Yeah!

Be sure to post about it in The New Thread Thread before you make your thread about it.

xhonzi said:

How's about:

#25: No posting every Pope from Paul to Benedict

#26: No quoting a post with every Pope from Paul to Benedict

#27: ???

#28: Profit

Fixed.

TV's Frink said:

Currently a work in progress - all ideas are welcome.

 

16) Creating Massive Walls of Text, Especially if You are Just Rambling

 

19) Posting Massive Images

 

20) Quoting Massive Image Posts

 

21) Quoting Massive Walls of Text, Especially if You Just Say "I agree"

Great list TV's Frink. :)

I'm not fully onboard with number 16 however, as sometimes the ramblings can be entertaining, even if there's nothing remotely informative in them... ;)  Things would get pretty dull if every comment ended up as just a short snappy soundbite or riposte, I reckon.  People can just scroll down, at the end of the day.

Absolutely agree with numbers 19, 20, and 21 though, as they are COMPLETELY maddening to have to scroll down through again, if re-quoted by anyone!  And overly-large pics should ideally just be given a 'clickable' link, if someone wants to show very large shots...and I can't understand why anyone can't just merely SAY that they 'agree with everything' in any long posts that may have just been posted beforehand by someone...rather than quoting the whole damn thing all over again, lol! 

Also, maybe you could re-arrange the order of the final list a little to reflect the worst forum 'crimes'...as I reckon 'Spelling/Grammar' shouldn't be looked on too harshly, and certainly shouldn't be listed at the top.  Especially when there's a few around here who don't have English as their first language...and to allow for those that seem to be on strong 'meds' half the time! ;)

re: spelling and grammar - I plan to include something about ESL in the write-up - it's certainly not fair to pick on someone who isn't posting in their native language for that reason.  But there has been a rash of poor English lately that has got me in a furry....oops, I mean fury. ;-)

The order of the list was random, basically as I thought of them.  I don't know that I want to try and assign a "levels of hell" kind of thing.

I'll have to think about #16 some more.  I tend to just skip over those wall texts anyway, so maybe they shouldn't bother me so much.

Thanks for the input. :-)

Harmy said:

It's interesting, how most of the time you can tell if someone's bad spelling or grammar are caused by him being a non-native speaker or whether it is because he just can't spell or doesn't care. And also, my own spelling abilities aren't so great either, but that's why I use spell-check, (Firefox and Chrome both have it and I'm sure most of the other browsers do too) sure, it won't show stuff like Lucas is a lair (still funny) but it will fix stuff like double letters (one of my biggest problems - speak of the devil, I just typed bigest :-) ) and stuff like that.

Yep, I was planning on mentioning the spell check feature.

skyjedi2005 said:

Well you could make a no image only posts rule but then Professor Fink would have to follow his own rule,lol.

But image-only posts don't bother me.

To typo is to be human.

We all do it and should not be ashamed.

I try to correct them when I see them but to be honest if a post is understood without the need for clarification do we have to be spelling and grammar pedants on a discussion board?

As nerds we have more important things to be pedantic about like the number of stars on Spinda Carter's drawers.

Also one person's spelling mistake is another person's regional spelling variant.

I'm not going to type 'color' unless it's in a book or film title or I've made an unspotted typographical error.

Some people like to develop an idiom for themselves and while it may be annoying to some (and they have every right to voice that annoyance) as long as information of interest is being conveyed I can't see a problem with people staying 'in character' for the duration of their stay.

doubleofive said:

 

Bingowings said:

I cnt c a prblm w/ ppl staying 'n char' 4 teh duration o there stay.

fxed that 4 u.

 

 K xx

xhonzi said:

How's about:

#25: No posting every Pope from Paul to Benedict

#26: No quoting a post with every Pope from Paul to Benedict

?

 What kind of monster would do such a thing!?!?

doubleofive said:

Think/Read, Before You Ruin It For Everyone.

Added.  Thanks.

Bingowings said:

To typo is to be human.

We all do it and should not be ashamed.

I try to correct them when I see them but to be honest if a post is understood without the need for clarification do we have to be spelling and grammar pedants on a discussion board?

As nerds we have more important things to be pedantic about like the number of stars on Spinda Carter's drawers.

Also one person's spelling mistake is another person's regional spelling variant.

I'm not going to type 'color' unless it's in a book or film title or I've made an unspotted typographical error.

Some people like to develop an idiom for themselves and while it may be annoying to some (and they have every right to voice that annoyance) as long as information of interest is being conveyed I can't see a problem with people staying 'in character' for the duration of their stay.

I'm not talking about an occasional typo or a regional variant.  I'm talking about continual poor grammar, misspellings, excessive lol or txt speak, etc.  Especially if it's a willing disregard, like a "scrw splling ppl nd to deal witit" attitude.

It may be unfair, but habitual mistakes of this nature often make people not take you seriously, no matter what you say.

Also, added "understand why your track record matters."

Added "Have a Sense of Humor About Yourself."

Perhaps adding something along the lines of checking for evidence when making serious claims in a thread and when possible backing those claims with sources (it needn't be a wall of text just a link to an image, an exterior source or a previous post would be enough) and if not sure acknowledging as such in the post might be handy in guide such as this.