A warning/word to the wise: If this thread gets out of hand by
ONE person, this thread will be removed and the offending person will be considered for permanent banishment from the site.
And now for my vent/pet peeve/call it what you will:
This "net speak" stuff is getting entirely out of hand. It specifically says in the
rules not to do it and I still see it. If I had the time, I would delete every post that doesn't follow this rule. But it would take hours to do and drop some of you that have over 800 posts to 20. I like to think of myself as a reasonable person. I like to think of myself as pretty "open-minded" but this is ridiculous. Some of the new members may say, (for example)"Well Tenser did it on this post, or this post." Sure he did, but that is on .0000001% of his posts, the other 99.9999999% of his posts are insightful and are worth the read. He has already proven his worth to the site, some of you have not so you look foolish, in my opinion (boy it took me
sooooo much longer to type that instead of IMO).
I'll leave it at that, take from it what you will. Some may agree, some may not, others may think "The old man is screaming from his porch to get off the lawn".
Whatever.
