Greetings My pet peeve is people using multiple exclamation or question marks at the end of there sentences... Take care m8s!!!! -Loom
Rep for the truth! MOAR rep for the awesome. I have many pet peeves on forums, the main ones being: - Bad English. English people should be able to take the time and either learn how to speak and write it properly or actually just take the time to type it properly on a forum. At no point am I remotely interested in nor will I start to translate a post with horrendous punctuation (or lack there of) or spelling in it just so that I can understand what the person is saying. As for there/ their, to/ too etc etc, people should just know by now. It's not difficult like astro physics, it's just plain old common sense. - Pointless whining. Things like complaining about other peoples signatures. You guys really don't realize how good we have it here with only text allowed in sigs. Take a wander over to OCN (just using it as an example, I have nothing against the OCN community!) and see what some of their members are allowed to put in their sigs. If our members want to put rig specs in their signature then so be it. I would if I had the space, it is a PC enthusiast forum after all... The name thing doesn't bother me that much. I do feel that it's unnecessary most of the time, unless a member is signing their real name rather than their username, but if someone feels it's necessary or is in the habit of doing it, it really doesn't bother me or affect my enjoyment of the forum. Cheers Uni
I still don't like it. Perhaps hate is a bit strong of a word, but it really makes me think the poster might be a up himself douchebag.
Pet peeves? Sure, I've got some (I'm not bothered about sigs or people signing their posts though). The things that get my boxers bunched up in my crack are: Their =/= there =/= they're Your =/= you're
Oh I agree. You see, I was born twenty eight years ago in the ghettos of Oxford. In this modern era, the poor use of English in Internet forums rarely kills anyone. Back then we lived in troubled times. You had to have your wits about you, watching every doorway, every dreaming spire. The swish of a gown, the flick of a mortar board would be all warning you had before the punctuation flew. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Grown men cut down by a flurry of commas, asterisks thrown like ninja stars, punctuation so thick it blacked out the Sun. Everything that could be used was used. Everything that is, but the full stop. British full stops and American periods were used to fortify the river banks where many consider they remain to this day. It wasn't all chaos in language. There was sanctuary for those who made it to the libraries where the written word was locked safely away in print. We'd spend the night huddled around the glow of a microfiche machine, listening to apostrophes falling in the streets. These things stay with you. An involuntary flinch when someone drops a capital letter in the forum. But I guess you had to be there.
That's just because we lost 1/2 the Internet flesh when your compy got nicked! Flesh in moderation is never a bad thing. Flesh on dual monitors would be better! john
