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	SD! : Web boards : Website help : "Suggestions for board etiquette" 1 2 3 4 5 Suggestions for board etiquette (48) 8 Oct 08, 7:03 AM 688-764-833 US, 2 yrs Hitting "enter" or "return" twice will break up your post into easily-read chunks: if you're going to take the time to write it, may as well put it in an easy-to-read format For example, here is Krista's post without spacing: yeeks! little_linnet wrote: People. Please, for the love of all that's holy (yes, even cheesecake, the real dense kind you can actually break pieces off of to eat with your fingers).There are a number of symbols used by many of us in the English speaking world. They are called "punctuation". You may have noticed them already here in this post.You have a wide variety of punctuation to choose from. Here is just a small sampling:.,;?!Neat, huh?Please, please. Ellipses (...) are used for specific purposes. They are NOT crazy eights or free squares, they can NOT be used as a replacement for every other kind of punctuation. All they do is drive your reader crazy.The same goes for exclamation points! A post written in all exclamation points! Gets very irritating very fast!Also if you write with no punctuation at all many people will give up on trying to plow through an unrelieved slog of words with no differentiation sentence parts or inflection. You need not be an artist with arcane and obscure punctuation uses just for godsake throw a comma in every once in a while or something you will find it makes your posts much easier for people to read.Krista 6 Nov 08, 10:38 AM anjuli UK, 18 mths Just bumping this up as it's being sought and requested by some of the newer members of our happy clan. I shall have a read and add any new thoughts later if I get time. (Off on another job with J this weekend so busy busy busy! ) Play nicely! anjuli ~~~ “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” - Anais Nin ~~~ 6 Nov 08, 11:01 AM Greebomc UK, 2 yrs anjuli wrote: And one twoo wayism is abhored and a very good way to drag your name thro the mud. anjuli You actually managed to make that horrible belief sound cutesy *lol*. This really tickled me. It's reminds me of Ming Ming from the wonderpets. G Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy...but we killed him. 6 Nov 08, 12:25 PM Master_Odin US(KS), 2 mths anjuli wrote: Just bumping this up as it's being sought and requested by some of the newer members of our happy clan. anjuli That would be me, thank you anjuli. I want to thank everyone for their insight in this thread and patience with us newbies in general. The operative phrase for civil debate in my neck of the world, (western Kansas, USA) is, "To be able to disagree without being disagreeable about it in the process." I would also appreciate a gentle nudge should I find myself straying from that path. Selah. There is no authority, only responsibility. 8 Nov 08, 3:14 PM Andrin DE, 4 mths ... we did speak about it b 4 but .... Please for the convenience of fluent reading avoid such abbreviations. It can't be an inhuman effort to hit 6 keys instead of 3. It doesn't matter how much I exercise my English, I always will trip over such stumbling blocks and have to contemplate upon what this is supposed to mean and after I figured it out I have to reread the whole paragraph to find back into its logic. Please. Please. Please. Regards Andrin 16 Nov 08, 1:11 PM Mistress_Tiara UK, 2 yrs Do not feed the trolls. This may sounds obvious and I realise it is much easier to ignore them when their efforts are blatant, http://tinyurl.com/6ra7xr then when they are simply being obnoxious, and replying to their individual points can be tempting, especially when they are offensive. For genuine persistent trolls - people who simply enjoy creating repetitive drama, conflict etc to make themselves feel extra super duper important or other reasons best known to themselves - any reply feeds them and is therefore ultimately counter productive. I would therefore strongly urge our community to look at the bigger picture and ask that when we can, we Do Not Feed The Trolls Many thanks Edited to add silly link. *~*Mistress Tiara*~* Edited 19 Nov 08, 9:13 PM by Mistress_Tiara 21 Nov 08, 2:19 PM Greebomc UK, 2 yrs Mistress_Tiara wrote: it is much easier to ignore them when their efforts are blatant It's the one in the pink dress, right? Yeah? No? Bugger. Extra one that I think might be nice, maybe a little less of the acronyms instead of sentences. I don't know my BTW's from RME's. I don't mean scene related one's but the ones that take over from everday speech. BRTYIA G (Best regards, thank you in advance) Blessed are the cracked, for they will let in the light. Edited 21 Nov 08, 2:20 PM by Greebomc 26 Nov 08, 6:03 PM Mistress_Tiara UK, 2 yrs Greebomc wrote: Mistress_Tiara wrote: it is much easier to ignore them when their efforts are blatant It's the one in the pink dress, right? Yeah? No? Bugger. Extra one that I think might be nice, maybe a little less of the acronyms instead of sentences. I don't know my BTW's from RME's. I don't mean scene related one's but the ones that take over from everday speech. BRTYIA G (Best regards, thank you in advance) Perhaps we should introduce a new one - DFTT (Don't Feed The Trolls) - as a board mantra? People who want to persistently create drama and deliberate confusion and conflict and upset as a means of boosting their own self importance, will be pleased by any of your efforts to 'discuss' things with them, and the 'subtler' culprits are often most insidious of all. JUST DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS! It's the most effective way to deal with them. I would hate to see any more people leave as a result of this, as some valuable board members are giving up and leaving again. *~*Mistress Tiara*~*