i also wrote a courteous email to all available adresses with no response. you would think if they were receiving multiple emails with the same confusion about seemingly senseless policies they would at least have the courtesy to inform the users of their site what the supposed purposes are!

i consider myself very well informed on the subject of the english language and i am absolutely floored! is this website for publishing formal essays for review, or having friendly discussions about basketball? i have no problem with holding posts or even fanshots to higher standards, but requiring capitalization for comments?? that is honestly just asinine.

When I did question them in a fanpost I get warned for making the fanpost cause I was "inciting" hatred.

Saint, for some reason I like you. You’ve been around for quite a while, and while your posts are rarely more than one or two sentences long, you are generally friendly and cool with everyone here. But, I’ve got to call you out on this one. If that is what you got out of the warning that was sent to you, you clearly didn’t take the time to read it carefully and try to understand it. I just read it again and nowhere does it talk about “inciting hatred” as you claim. The situation was explained to you rather clearly. I noticed since then you’ve generally used proper grammar and capitalization. Is it really such a hassle?

Tony my man, one of these days we’re going to come to your house with a big GSoM Publishers Clearing House style check!

(balloons may or may not be included)

 haha, if it does, it shouldn’t :>) I bet no one reads any of the ads or buys anything from them?
  I don’t even know the name of one advertiser offhand.
    What I’d like to see banned is the guy trying to sell womens clothes in about every thread?

This is not very complicated and does not need to be re-addressed ad nausea every few weeks. Thank you.

and yet it is complicated, and this quote demonstrates this. you write “ad nausea”. the correct latin phrase is “ad nauseum”. should you therefore be warned or banned based on the improper usage of a word?

i see errors in virtually every post i’ve ever read. unless people are proof reading their comments four or five times over, they will inevitably make a lot of mistakes, and that should be acceptable! i knew what “ad nasuea” meant, and the mistake did not detract from my comprehension of the meaning of the sentence at all. i’m not talking about an inability to form an argument or use logic here, i’m talking about grammar and punctuation. it simply isn’t reasonable to presuppose that one is causally linked with the other. the former is the core of the thoughts being communicated, and the latter is akin to the difference between helvetica and a font utilizing serifs. in other words, these are decorations, not related to the subject itself. obviously one could demonstrate that a misplaced comma might confuse one’s point, but a total lack of commas makes for pretty easily understood run on sentences, for example.

having said that, i do understand and agree with the concept of holding fanshots, and especially fanposts, to a higher standard. these are intended to be written in a journalistic style, which i enjoy reading. in fact, i recently had a fanpost recommended because i willingly adhereed to these standards, among other things. however, i cannot agree that comments should be held to the same standards. comments are by definition first drafts. they should be passionate and unencumbered by silly conventions. can you not, at the very least, reconsider the policy for capitalization in comments? pretty please with a cherry on top!?!? i love this site and i’d hate to have to stop participating because of something this silly!

Go see some sites where it’s not as well regulated. It’s poor

Exactly

why not require everyone to submit comments in haiku, or sonnet form? this would be tedious too, does that make it better?

thiz centance iz full of alot of speling and grahamatical errorz can u reed it or not.

what is the difference aside from pomposity? i rest my case.

so you think any rules should be blindly accepted? you may like pressing the shift key every time you begin a sentence, for whatever perverse, neurotic reason, but i do not. it is an unnecessary convention which should be done away with. i would also be in favor of allowing any format whatsoever for comments, so long is it does not offend a large portion of readers.

i’m talking about comments mind you, not fanposts.

What’s the word? Oh, yeah!

Fail.

BTW, you realize you’re endorsing something you admit is uncomfortable because you’re afraid of going to jail, right?

cause lawn mowers have hot exhaust pipes.

Game Thread comments are held to a completely different standard for the reasons you rightfully noted.

Rec for you

That’s pretty amazing actually.

That’s pretty cool. I think I’ve seen that before, but it still trips me out.

or at least I’ve seen that information presented with that block of text before. I can read it fine, but I don’t think everyone can.

But imagine if every other person posted on this site like that, but used numbers instead of letters, didn’t use periods because it’s “stupid,” didn’t capatalize at the start of their sentences. GSOM would have to change their name to Golden State of Migraines.

What is this word: “rscheearch”? I can’t figure it out. I was thinking “research,” but there’s an extra “c” and an “h” in there… and it doesn’t work grammatically.