When putting people on ignore..

At least Stephen King knows the correct use of its and it's . . .

Pep (or his sub-editor does, anyway )

If you are talking about me then you should think again. I don't stalk any individual. I address posts not posters, and respond to behaviours I believe waste the time of and are insulting to the participants of the forums, such as deliberately misspelling words and being too lazy to spell check others, so that comments and what might be arguments are incoherent. It isn't just me either, as various threads have noted that this sort of thing is a combination of attention whoring and intransigent insolence. Don't even start to think that you personally are being singled out; if you check my posting history you will find that I criticise any number of posts because the force of the views are being diluted by being expressed badly - and to return to the point of this thread, it tends to get them ignored, either formally or informally, until the behaviour is revised, unless the posters refuse to, with the obvious consequences.

Pep (Notes that it wasn't me that instigated a sequence of unwanted, inconsequential and intrusive polls)

Mozzies are the bane of my life so you have my deepest sympathies. I don't know which is worse: the little zinggggggg by my ear just as I'm about to fall asleep at night; the hot itch that wakes me up a half hour later or the knowledge that sated fleck on the wall has bloated itself on my blood.


No amount of smarmy dissembling will excuse being a nuisance on the grounds of editing/criticising other posters' handling of language. Grammar and spell checks are entirely a matter of personal preference, Pep. Now please stop it.

Congratulations Ephraim! This is a perfect example of an inaccurate and effectively content free argument with absolutely no justification whatsoever, other than a personal opinion which you are perfectly entitled to hold and express, although you have no right to expect anybody else to agree with it.

Pep (You are apparently learning from Jig's style)

PS Stop it? Your sense of humour is obviously developing!

Pep, statements such as ...

... constitute the ramblings of a judgemental pedant who has been accorded no privilege to speak or act on behalf of anyone else.

If you are seriously concerned about the function of the forums then try contributing an opinion as opposed to carping at other posters simply because their style or the lack of it grates on you.

I would be hard pressed to find a thread on this or any other forum that isn't riddled with typos, misspellings, poor grammar and punctuation: it is feature of internet communications that only a stubbornly affected individual such as yourself would refuse to accept. Even if I were to accept the excuse that you are a self-appointed arbiter of writing style, I do not see you assiduously posting corrections all over the forum.

However, I do see you making a point of harassing Jig.

For me, the forum ignore feature is only to keep me from replying to those that I am likely to flame. If I don't see it, as written, then I am less likely to respond. I don't mind the quotes, because I can always blithely ignore the quote.

I do check a person's post at least once a month, to see if maybe they've either settled down or if they're still going to be on the ignore.

So, the ignore feature isn't a service for ME. It's a service for the rest of the forum.

I need no privilege to speak nor act. The forums permit, nay encourage, the expression of views.

Now you seem to be doing what you accuse me of, suggesting that I change they way that I post. You can't have your cake and eat it you know! Make your mind up. And of course you are expressing an ad hominem view on *me* rather than people that behave as I do, or their posts, which is expressly forbidden by the ToS/Guidelines.

It is an appalling state of affairs that I do acknowledge, which I simply wish to point out in conjunction with my view that if you can't express an opinion accurately, the strength of that opinion diminishes.

Where then did I get this erroneous reputation for pedantry that you claim I have? Just by "stalking" one dismal representative of the type? Perhaps you should do more research. In partuicular you may wish to review how many posters tend to edit their comments (your own for example! LMAO) when they are responding to mine, which suggests I *do* have a beneficial impact.

I deny this charge absolutely. If I appear to do so then it is because she exemplifies the emptiness of argument in a coherent vaccuum, and persists, even rejoices in her posts being illegible - a point of view which is not uniquely mine by any means. If I see something warranting feedback, I usually respond, if I have the time.

Pep (Perhaps you think there should be a literacy test for the forums - and only those that fail it should be allowed to post?)

Yeah.

Right.

Whatever.

Excellent! That is what my 10 year old daughter says when she has no argument.

Pep (My son, with a sense of humour, says "Poohead"

you are assuming way too much here Jig

I have not disclosed who I am ignoring or why, nor will I.

your statements make it seem as though my ignoring someone is because I feel I am being attacked, or stalked and need to chill.

this is not the case at all. It is nothing personal, it is just something I am not wanting to see, nothing more.

As for letting people be who they are, sure, I am ok with them, however that doesn't mean I have to see that person being who they are.

your comment about the good morning thing, put my situation in reverse, because in that case I would be the one being ignored, and if someone chooses to ignore me, that is ok with me

hi tundra, um...

I am a she (it's ok, happens all the time)

oh god I hate mozzies (I like that word LOL)
and yes, I think the worst is that annoying buzz by the ear GRRRR

thankfully where I live now, we do not get a lot of them (whew)



As for pep, I agree, just stop it pep, it does look like you single out specific people. A lot of us have told Jig it makes it hard to read her text, yet she continues to type the way she does, I consider it a slap in the face, however I move along. I can not force her to change her ways, nor can she force me to read her chat, I read it when I want to.

Pep, if you insist on correcting the grammar of posters throughout the forums, then why have you not attacked my posts?

I butcher the English language on a daily basis, with run on sentences, fragments, misuse of capitalization, typos, and the lack or overuse of punctuation. However I do not see you correcting mine.

I certainly dont intend to slap you in face. In fact far from it. I type as I do coz I type as I do, but its not done to harm or solicite anything from others. I dont think I have ever commented on the typing of others (except yesterday as a joke) coz it just doesnt bother me. I read so much in my reality (as we all do) that making comment would be too much like being a teacher (and I am def. NOT one of those!) Funnily enough, I am literature crazy and read much. I just "follow a fool's flag" as teh Spanish say. And THAT proverb has a density of meanings.

Peopel I work with dont really make a constancy of issues over writing. My handwriting is teh same - yet I collect fountain pens - teh old-fashioned ink pens. I own 45 of them; Montblancs, Pelikans, Namiki-Pilots, Watermans etc etc. Just me. Everyone knows its me.

No, never done to harm or slap a face. If I have ever made anyone feel that way then I am deeply sorry. And that I am truly of my word.

Pep, you are quite free to speak here and rail against anyone's postings , just as free as they are to make them. You can be indignant over their spelling, grammar, and whatever else you may feel is insulting and a waste of your time, but please don't believe you are speaking for anyone but yourself. We are all capable of voicing those same opinions if we so desire. You may carry on.

I just find it amusing when grammar/spelling/content trolls make more errors in their own posts than they correct in others.

It is definitely a case of leading by example!

Teh poster selects. Teh poster can only flourish among what teh poster considers allies. The rejection of one person can only work if the poster feels others have rejected also. Otherwise teh whole thing would backfire. That's simple to see. Its worked in my case since my plan to leave forum and withdraw from sl is being applied. This place doesnt "work" for me anymore.

be yourself. you owe no one an explanation.

we all have something which we are remembered by. do you want it to be that you were the king of perfect spellers who is a complete a-hole, a narcissistic drama queen who makes every conversation about herself and then sheds responsibility, or a typo queen with a creative imagination and a passion to learn. or, you can be an intolerant bulldozer like me.

it's comedy gold.

Marry me. I could knock up a Gerard Butler lookee-likee av in a flash.

What am I saying? I look twenty times better than Mr Butler as I am!

i don't get married, but i certainly would appreciate the GB clone for eye candy. bring it!

and you could not possibly be better looking than he, as he is perfect in every way... more perfect than Mary Poppins.

Then, why after so many folks have explained to you, that reading your way of purposeful typos makes it very difficult and uncomfortable to read, why do you insist on continuing to do the obviously on purpose typos?
(and don't tell me that typing things like teh is not on purpose, cuz if it wasn't then you would be typoing anything that had a th come together.
Also if it was due to clumsy fingers it would not only be select words.

The reason it feels like a slap in the face, is because you choose to do it, knowing it makes others uncomfortable (and not just one or two, but a lot of folks have kindly pointed it out to you).

so if you continue to do so, that is your choice, but it is just as rude as your thinking putting someone on ignore is rude.

Fair enough. I'm not the marrying kind myself. But I'll see what I can do about the optical confectionery.

OMG *falls over*

JIG you typed THE correctly!! See you CAN do it, just let your fingers do what they want and stop making teh on purpose

(seriously though, that is my only pet peeve about your text, that you purposefully type teh, knowing that it not only annoys some people, but that it makes reading very difficult.)

Opps I hit enter too quick

as for this place not working for you anymore, don't let it be because some people or a specific person makes it that way, let it be because you really are tired of this place.

I almost let someone drive me away from here, but I decided why... why let the actions of another dictate what I do, so I stayed, and am glad I have, as I have made more friends from here recently than I have since I started posting on the forums (which was shortly after starting SL)

besides, you do have a lot of interesting topics, I just have to learn to get past the obvious typos (hmm maybe I could run your post through a spellchecker before reading it LOL)

I would entirely agree, if it should happen.

Pep ("make more errors in their own posts than they correct in others" - an almost impossible task, I would have said)