BBS pet peaves
 

I know everyone's got one. What bugs you when you're browsing an internet forum?

Mine?

Paragraphs, or lack of them. I bet I'm missing a log of good posts simply because the writer didn't use the enter key to create a line break between thoughts. Can't read that and don't even try.

K-
Grammar, structure, usage, capitalization... Actually I'll go one step further, fluency, or lack thereof, in one's native tongue. But as Orwell said in Politics and the English Language - "...it is better to break these rules of language than to do anything barbaric to enforce them." Write like you speak, but use the language properly, for the situation. **end rant**

edit: Um, Kyo, "peaves" is actually "peeves", oh, shit, now I'm gonna get banned, correcting a moderator....

Lack of punctuation, misspelling, and those that type in ALL CAPS.

Miss-speeled werds is my midle nam




:D

Underlined words that don't include a link ;)

Book titles are underlined, should I use quotes instead?

Technically, it should be "write as you speak." :D

AL- true, I stand corrected, 20 given. No excuse for not proofing my own work.

Dial up while on TDY outstide the United States.....like right now.

Titles to threads that don't explain the threads content. You click them open just to find if it's something informative or interesting, and it's just crap.

This and run on sentences.

Never seen my pet peeve on this forum. That, being the distortion of script to appear like hieroglyphics.

Ahhh, yes, the old unrecognized font into ASCII characters routine - very annoying

Posts that are only a link, with no summary given on the contents. Secondarily is a link that does not indicate that it's actually a download.

NTITAI, acronyms.

Pat

Lack of line break, and overly long posts. Succinctness is a virtue.

Internet shorthand age appropriate to a teenage board. b4, l8r