XD You made me laugh. It's true that some people have managed to get posts in the wrong places but, really dude, I LIKE hyphonated words! Lay off them! (Btw, there isn't any need for an 'And' in 'Fan-works Know-how').
>Okay, okay. The Self Intros thread—I hope you're taking notes, girls and boys—is for when you want to introduce yourself. YourSELF, mind. Not your story, or your interests. Save that for later. Keep it in your pants, cowboy.
that probably goes for me and Majin who start a random discussion in the "girls or boys" thread,
but it just happened, and the boys or girls thread exists in all boards, so it was easy to go off topic ;p
there is no harm in randomness, the forum is random anyway. as long as it is not trolling or spamming randomness never hurt anyone...
>>4 okay, dude, but relax there is no harm in randomness, there are a lot of boards that someone can go,
but there is no need for rules in this one
Dux, I take the Lobby to be a sort of poor man's (/ schoolchild's) /b/. By which I mean that everything there (including my posts, of course) is utterly 5h1t and boring to read.
Meanwhile, Pleasant Chat is a board that exists for me to subvert the intended purpose by being as impolite as possible to everyone on it. I found it quite a good joke, but nobody noticed the intended irony, so now I'm just short with people on every board. Hehe.
Oh and Dux, as always, I love you.
It might help if we had some mods that you know... moderated stuff
actually scratch that, people just post whatever stoopid shit they want on here anyway
Triple-dot, you broke rules 1 and 2. Fucker.
Don't get in a hissy fit over people talking about things. Conversation naturally flows from one thing to another. Next time you're talking to a friend, take a note on what subjects you talk about and how you get from one to another. Really interesting sometimes.
One day, Scourge, you'll understand the difference between 'hissy fit' and 'jokey rant designed to amuse people with a sense of humour'. You'll also understand the difference between a thread 'going off topic' and 'sprouting up on the wrong board in the first place' Until then, shoo.
As for breaking rules 1 and 2? Only the most pathetic souls online care about them. Hang your head in shame.
>>1 I completely agree. It's not difficult to put something in the correct place. People should stop being so lazy.
OH NOES DUX STOP YOU FOOL IMAGINE IF SOME RUBBISH LEAKED ONTO /b/ OH WAIT!!!1
On the topic of website related irritation, does anyone else despise 'internet lingo'? I'm referring to 'oh noes' and 'lulz' and the like. It makes my skin crawl and puts me off websites such as this. Considering the majority of members have an interest in writing/reading, could you please make the effort to use proper English?
It's a website. Deal with it.
>>16 Yes, I realise that. I also, however, have noticed it used on several other occasions without the intent of sarcasm.
AND IT IS A WEBSITE.
Just as you do not write 'er' or 'um' in an essay, but say them regularly in conversation, you do not need to write "I laughed out loud at that comment of yours, seventh person to post" online when you can write "@7- LOL". It wastes time, space and energy. If people can't understand that, I don't know why they use the internet. You write to suit your medium and audience. Medium = internet (or, indeed, internets). Audience = people who use the internet. It is not difficult.
It is the 'audience' part that I do not understand. The audience is people. People write books and do not find the need to abbreviate things. Why do so online? It's just as handy to abbreviate whilst writing a book as it is to typing online on a website such as this. The authors, however, do not do so. They use the English language correctly. Why should people online be too lazy to use spelling and grammar?
@19- Because a conversation on a forum is a two-way process, and you are neither trying to immerse your audience in a fictional universe, nor deliver a lecture. Forums are primarily for discussion, not essays, and that means slang and spontaneity should be acceptable. Spelling and grammar, however, are different matters entirely.
Also, most audiences are comprised of people, funnily enough.
Also, 'your audience is people'? The 'audience' at a funeral service 'is people'. The audience at a football match 'is people'. Context. Matters.
Most of the other forums I'm on don't allow text speak simply because the non-English speaking members of the community don't understand it.
s'a dfrnce btwn txtspk n slang, tho
@'...' - The same applies to both of them for people who don't speak English though. For instance, a non-English speaker wouldn't have been able to read your last message.
@28- That's because it was text speak. Which was the point.
I talk to people on other fanfic forums who don't speak English as a first language, and they cope with slang. Seraeris and Tristana manage it here. English is my father's third language, and he (wait for it) uses slang. If you can speak absolutely no English whatsoever, you won't be spending your time here in the first place, unless you are VERY dedicated to discovering strangers' tastes in Kool-Aid.
>>29 I manage slang because I have been a fan of hiphop, which has a lot of american slang, as for text speech I did manage to read your >>26 but that's also because I use internet over 10 year and at least half of them communicate in english.
were I can't read text speech is with greeklish...
yap my own language when is written in txt speech I just cant understand a thing, because using latin alphabet it also adds to the effect. also most greeks try to follow right spelling with the greekish which is needless and confuses the reader even more.
INADVISABLE.
If anyone can work out what the end of that post actually means, inform.
As a rule of thumb, if someone says 'keep it in your pants, cowboy' in relation to people posting irrelevant information, they are probably not taking themselves too seriously...
you must love how there's now a thread called "Wats-ur-favrit-Kool Aid-Flavor???" in the fan-works know-how section.
bahahah....
This thread has to be the MOST srs bsns topic I have EVER seen in my ENTER LIFE!
(Please note that this thread had A LOT of sarcasm in it :) )