Banned for Wanting Grammar!

[sonic-fast-fingers]

So I play this game called: Rumble Fighter (www.rf.ogplanet.com) and recently I have been more active on their forums. I never realized how annoying it is when grammar is not mandatory for the forums. There is this guy in that game named Micester and he makes a thread asking where all the "E balls" are. There is not such thing as an "e ball" in rumble fighter. You can see the thread here.

Since then he has been seemingly trying to increase his post count by double posting and what have you. His posts also make absolutely no sense. He uses horrible grammar and phrases that I have never seen before.

Here is an example of his intelligence:

Originally Posted by Micester

u maked no sense at all man dude man is a word b etween waws a word cuz theress a B
we all get going right even tho you didnt see that part
my post count is 390 almost lol liar

And one more example:

Originally Posted by Micester

ya but for real thats what i do i talk to topics and only to post that stuff no spam for that man and dude its not trolls

At this point I send a request to Rumble Fighter's Help Desk (you send pictures of glitchers, you ask for stuff if you need help etc.) to make grammar mandatory. I was declined. Since I was declined I basically made a thread with a screen shot of their decline and I asked people what they thought. If they thought grammar should be mandatory or not.

Here is the image that I posted in thread:


Some ten minutes later I refresh the page to see if anyone else has said anything and the thread is missing. I think about it for a second and then look on the bottom right of my page and it says that I can't do anything in the forums. I send a message to the help desk and ask them why I got banned. (I assumed for flaming Micester so much or possibly that my avatar was 210KB over). They told me that any e-mail that OGPlanet sends me is confidential and is not to be shared with anyone. With the help desk not only do they reply to you on the website (in the help desk), they also send you an email. ProProxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0

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Cache-Control: max-age=0

I didn't know that and no where in the Help Desk reply does it say that I'm not supposed to share that information with anyone. In the end I am permanently banned from their forums for wanting grammar to be mandatory.

[LLaMaSaUceYup]

His post count was reset.

[sonic-fast-fingers]

Ya, finally after the GM's saw how many of his posts were pointless.

[Tasselfoot]

you aren't the first person to say how awesome our forums are.

[Heartseeker7]

If you mess up grammar around here, you get shot and thrown in the trash.

No really though, that's WAYYYY unfair.
They really should have posted on the help desk that your not aloud to share that email.

And for Tass, YOUR FORUMS ARE SWEET.

[tuv]

es tas dude man you're forms r teh beast eva!!!!!!!!1!!11!

[who_cares973]

thats sucks dude man dude but just keep it fresh ya know ad things will b all b all


these forums are nice <3

[badman7772]

I know grammar not being required is annoying but remember this, while your on there, you are NOT on FFR. It's what they say. If you don't like it, don't come.

[blackbuterfly451]

complaining about bad grammar doesn't make you seem any more intelligent ;-;

[eastsideman09]

What's this world coming to when you get perma'd for the better of society?.... lol

That sucks dude.

ps effeffarr ownz mirite guiz

[dashoe93]

So wait is there a rule where you have to talk like you never took an English class?

I am so there.

[NFD]

Originally Posted by Tasselfoot

you aren't the first person to say how awesome our forums are.

I've been meaning to ask you this, what exactly is that forum for?

[Chrissi]

Originally Posted by Tasselfoot

you aren't the first person to say how awesome our forums are.

Yeah, there was this other website on which I complained about the forum's state of affairs, and gave an example of FFR as a forum that's run the way a forum should be run.

But they didn't seem to get it, and pointed to all of the terrible threads that do exist on FFR and laughed at me, while missing the bigger picture - FFR has valuable threads, and that other forum didn't.

[foilman8805]

Originally Posted by blackbuterfly451

complaining about bad grammar doesn't make you seem any more intelligent ;-;

And having bad grammar makes you look less intelligent.

[Magewout]

Well then, make sure you use good grammar and stop lecturing people about what they should/shouldn't do. I frequent a forum with 0 rules except for 'don't do illegal stuff', and it works out perfectly fine. Stop being uptight about how others spell, and make sure you're perfect yourself before you point at anyone else.

EDIT: In fact, that forum is how all forums should be. No modding whatsoever, just a group of friends posting whatever they want to post.

[robertsona]

grammer

[ursername]

Micester's posts wanted to make me gouge my eyes out after the first few sentences. I wouldn't put up with such idiotic posting if I were a mod on said forums.

Originally Posted by Heartseeker7

If you mess up grammar around here, you get shot and thrown in the trash.

Not all the time. FFR is way more lenient when it comes to grammar and spelling, at least by explosm's standards. If you've ever been to explosm forums the mods there are way more anal about spelling and grammar. If you don't believe me just check out their event log and count how many people are banned for 'dropping their dots' or capitalizing, punctuating, etc. They also ban without a second thought for any use of 'aolisms' like lol, rofl, etc.

[Crashfan3]

This reminds me of the other day when I was in Combat Arms. Even in games, I type with good grammar and punctuation. One guy called me an "uptight bastard" and another called me an "old ingleshmen" (yes, that's how he spelled it).

*sigh*

I can understand a little paraphrasing in games, but there's simply no excuse on forums. Places like that are breeding grounds for unintelligence.

[SnS]

And to think txt tlkz was invented as a convenience. It isn't any better than a headache.

[~kitty~]

Originally Posted by robertsona

grammer

Uhh?

Originally Posted by blackbuterfly451

complaining about bad grammar doesn't make you seem any more intelligent ;-;

Complaining about horrid grammar doesn't make you seem less intelligent. Those people can help typing horrible. Grammar exists for a person to understand English easier than others. If one isn't so good at grammar, they will not be judged for trying, I don't think. But, it is obvious when you don't try at all. In fact, in this case, it was a deliberate grammar and spelling error, which makes it take longer to understand than reading a grammatically correct statement.

Grammar is mandatory in other forums I've seen before, because they see this decline in use of correct grammar outside of the internet. I believe they see that this use of "leet speak" elicits some use of poor grammar into the real world at times. Not only that, but forums are often used as a source of information. You should try to make yourself to be as clear as possible, correct? I, too, did not first understand why. I only started understanding after I read the book, "Eat, Shoots & leaves". Read it, and you'll understand why I say all this. Being uptight about grammar is better than being careless about grammar.