Bad day True??

[shmoov69]

Seem to be locking quite a few threads today! Are ya not having a good day or have you just turned into the post Nazi! LOL! "No mor posts for you!!". LOL!

Just razzin ya! No need to lock this one....................yet! LOL

[Mkelcy]

There does seem to be a C-C.com flavor leaking over recently.

[monza]

I owe him beer he's pissed off!

[TonyL]

No, we're just enforcing the rules. Too many political posts of late.
Cleaning up the board is our job. If we let it get out of control, it will. And then everyone loses.

[Vegas69]

This board gets out of control faster than any I have ever seen. They are doing a great job. I'd ban a few of these trolls but that's just me. LOL

[LateNight72]

Ibtl

[wicked68]

This board gets out of control faster than any I have ever seen. They are doing a great job. I'd ban a few of these trolls but that's just me. LOL

ha - go over to webhostingtalk.com and go on the social issues forum

that will make your head spin.

[monza]

There does seem to be a C-C.com flavor leaking over recently.

They have a web site?

[Damn True]

Bad day?

Not at all. There are a lot of things going wrong in the world, many of them frustrate me, some infuriate me. But none of it impacts my level of happiness. I have a beautiful wife that loves me. I have a great house in a really nice neighborhood. And, I've worked my tail off and earned myself a great job that pays well (though I do work my butt off and in fact I'm at work right now but it's worth it).

As Tony said, we're just doing a little cleaning up around here.

[BonzoHansen]

A mod's work is never done and stupid always seems to come in bunches...

[parsonsj]

Yeah, the GM thing and how it is perceived by the members ends up becoming political (and even religious). It almost always goes bad after that.

We'll keep the pruning shears sharp.

jp

[ProdigyCustoms]

Makes me want to go look for the closed threads, LOL! Kinda like a car wreck, you don't want to see what you will see, but you look anyway!

[dhutton]

Maybe the grammar and spelling lessons could be better handled in a PM instead of on the forum...

[parsonsj]

The grammar and spelling is a difficult issue. I find myself skipping over poorly-written posts.

I can't read bad grammar. I'm reminded of Sammy Hagar's "I can't drive 55". :)

jp

[jy211]

spell check needs to be added LOL :1st:

[Damn True]

Spell check is embedded in firefox, the return key is not far away and it takes very little time and effort to construct a readable sentence.

[ProdigyCustoms]

Firefox makes all the text funky, almost dot matirx like. I tried to adjust the text size, but no help. Any advice?

[XLexusTech]

Here goes I am posting so that is the kiss of death. Lemme screw up the grammar that is a guaranteed lock :-)

Oh and any Grammar Nazi that uses Gonna should look in the mirror. At least Quote it if its a quote....

[JEFFTATE]

This board doesn't really get out of control that fast.
I've never had a problem with a thread getting out of hand on this Forum.
The members , posters , and moderators here are always friendly , mature , and helpful.

[Damn True]

Firefox makes all the text funky, almost dot matirx like. I tried to adjust the text size, but no help. Any advice?

Really? Every post I've made on this board in the last year has been via Firefox. The fonts in our respective posts look the same.

Do you mean the appearance of the font on your screen?

Try playing with you character encoding. Mine is in Western (ISO-8859-1)

[Damn True]

Here goes I am posting so that is the kiss of death. Lemme screw up the grammar that is a guaranteed lock :-)

Oh and any Grammar Nazi that uses Gonna should look in the mirror. At least Quote it if its a quote....

This?


When they kick out your front door, How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head, Or on the trigger of your gun?

Paging Samuel Clemens........Mr. Clemens to a white courtesy telephone.........

Is that a joke? Please tell me that was a joke. You simply cannot be serious.

Just out of curiosity......how old are you?

[XLexusTech]

This?



You simply cannot be serious.

Just out of curiosity......how old are you?

Old enough not to take you seriously. But honestly you obviously have superior command over language and grammar. Thats great for you. Why you feel the need to point out every post placed by someone without that skill is beyond me. Why cant you adjust? Perhaps every time you point those things out you are twitching a nerve in someone.

If you cant take grammatically incorrect post then ignore them, Why out people all the time. Not all of us write for a living you know.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

ah i love the grammar nazi...

[Kenova]

...... and all this time I thought it was my reading that was inadequate :banghead:

Ken

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

how about a rampage then..

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[chevella]

old enough not to take you seriously. But honestly you obviously have superior command over language and grammar. Thats great for you. Why you feel the need to point out every post placed by someone without that skill is beyond me. Why cant you adjust? Perhaps every time you point those things out you are twitching a nerve in someone.

If you cant take grammatically incorrect post then ignore them, why out people all the time. Not all of us write for a living you know.

x2.

[JEFFTATE]

Hey ,
I can't stand to read a post with no periods and incorrect spelling either.
It takes too long to read because you have to correct it in your head to make sense of it .
And it hurts my eyes.

But , it's no biggy.
I just skip over the posts that make no sense.

[Damn True]

Why you feel the need to point out every post placed by someone without that skill is beyond me. Why cant you adjust? Perhaps every time you point those things out you are twitching a nerve in someone.

If you cant take grammatically incorrect post then ignore them, Why out people all the time. Not all of us write for a living you know.

Honestly?

Because there are people on this board that have a wealth of information such as MonzaRacer and sometimes yourself. The thing is that if that information isn't communicated effectively it can be misunderstood if it is read, and is rendered entirely useless if someone passes it up entirely because it's difficult or annoying to read. If the information isn't communicated well it is lost and the board is diminished as a result.

.....and the passage in my signature line......those words are not my own. They are attributed to Paul Simonon.

DFGxauL07_I

[XLexusTech]

Proper grammar would require that line from Simonon to be quoted or perhaps underlined. I am not sure we didn't get the best education in the orphanage.

I get your point. I hope you get mine.

[LateNight72]

i dont kno i really think grammar is overrated
as long as we can get the point acrossed to each other what is the matter
i defininutly think you are all blowin this outta proportions because it only a internet form
but wat can you do? there will always be hippocrits





Ouch. That really hurt to type, I need some aspirin. :rotfl:

[Norwoodx55]

DFGxauL07_I

Well how friggin' cool is THAT! I had no idea live Clash coverage could be found on YouTube. Wish I had the chance to see them when they could be seen live.

[BonzoHansen]

The grammar and spelling is a difficult issue. I find myself skipping over poorly-written posts.

I can't read bad grammar. I'm reminded of Sammy Hagar's "I can't drive 55". :)

jp

:1st:

[2yellow69]

I agree with True. Proper grammer makes it easier to understand the point someone is trying to get across. It's our language, we should try to use it correctly.
Everyone occasionally makes a mistake though. That's no big deal.

[wicked68]

this is not a difficult solution. I have the same problem - I have a masters degree but when I am on a board - I typically type as if I am speaking and no one ever speaks grammatically correct. the easist thing to do (which I am not doing on this post) is to type your post and then copy and paste it into word and let it correct it for you. then repaste it back to here and submit it.

it will go over a lot better than a post like this with no capitalization etc etc

the problem is that you can hear yourself talking and hera the inflection in your head as you talk but others can not as they read so proper grammer is useful.

[WS6]

Y'all are going to laugh, but I have trouble typing. I only use one maybe two fingers on my left hand. guess where the shift key is? That's the biggest reason I don't capitalize all the time. This summer I plan to sit down and find a typing tutor program. This typing with one finger on my left hand crap is really starting to cause me serious tendon pain when I attempt to write a paper for school.

[muthstryker]

Y'all are going to laugh, but I have trouble typing. I only use one maybe two fingers on my left hand. guess where the shift key is? That's the biggest reason I don't capitalize all the time. This summer I plan to sit down and find a typing tutor program. This typing with one finger on my left hand crap is really starting to cause me serious tendon pain when I attempt to write a paper for school.


HaHa, I know what you mean. I used to be the same way, I would hit one key at a time. Started playing this online game "counterstrike". Ever since that game I can type fast and quick, but alot of times I forget periods and what not.

[bigvegan]

Yeah, the GM thing and how it is perceived by the members ends up becoming political (and even religious). It almost always goes bad after that.

JP, I'm sorry about the religion reference in the GM supplier quote I posted. I thought his post was interesting, or at least thought provoking. His views on religion are far from mine, but I thought it best to quote the man in full, rather than offending anyone's beliefs by censoring a passing reference (6 words out of a 16 paragraph letter) to divinity.

[justanova]

Spell check is embedded in firefox, the return key is not far away and it takes very little time and effort to construct a readable sentence.


Excuse me for being behind the curve here, but what is this "firefox" you speak of?

[BonzoHansen]

Excuse me for being behind the curve here, but what is this "firefox" you speak of?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

[Roger M]

The problem that I see on this site is that sometimes when certain Mods step in on a thread, they arent using much tact in how they deal with it. On other sites if someone gets out of hand, the Mods are pretty cordial about it and quietly it goes away. As someone earlier mentioned here, a PM could go a long way. That is my .02. As far as the spelling thing.. Not all car guys can spell, or even read for that matter. If the grammar bothers you that much, you have the power to go and correct it.

[parsonsj]

JP, I'm sorry about the religion reference in the GM supplier quote I posted. I thought his post was interesting, or at least thought provoking. His views on religion are far from mine, but I thought it best to quote the man in full, rather than offending anyone's beliefs by censoring a passing reference (6 words out of a 16 paragraph letter) to divinity.John, I agree: the post in full was necessary. Once I saw the dogma that underlay his whole argument, I was able to understand his POV. I wasn't responding to you; I was responding to Mr. Knox.

And Todd (latenight72): Sorry. I didn't read your post. It's just too hard for me to make the mental connections needed to comprehend what you are saying. If that's ok with you, it's certainly ok with me.


The problem that I see on this site is that sometimes when certain Mods step in on a thread, they arent using much tact in how they deal with it. On other sites if someone gets out of hand, the Mods are pretty cordial about it and quietly it goes away. As someone earlier mentioned here, a PM could go a long way. That is my .02. As far as the spelling thing.. Not all car guys can spell, or even read for that matter. If the grammar bothers you that much, you have the power to go and correct it.I take your point about cordiality. No doubt we can do better as mods. For the record, we do make significant use of PMs, and usually work together to jointly figure out how to proceed. It's a rare event for one of us to "go it alone" without some consultation with the others. It helps keep us consistent. But we'll not improve without some criticism, so thank you.

As far as fixing spelling errors and/or grammar, we do it all the time, especially in thread titles. Doing much more than that is too much work, at least until Larry comes through with those big raises he's been promising us.

jp

[68Formula]

The problem that I see on this site is that sometimes when certain Mods step in on a thread, they arent using much tact in how they deal with it. On other sites if someone gets out of hand, the Mods are pretty cordial about it and quietly it goes away. As someone earlier mentioned here, a PM could go a long way. That is my .02. As far as the spelling thing.. Not all car guys can spell, or even read for that matter. If the grammar bothers you that much, you have the power to go and correct it.

It's not really the spelling or grammatical terms, but rather use of simple punctuation and capital letters. These are pretty basic.

The problem is for the few seconds you save not using these, you force several others to spend 10 times as long figuring out what your trying to say. It's like saying, "well my time is much more important than the rest of you." If you really feel you have something important to say, then back it up by making it legible.

[parsonsj]

It's not really the spelling or grammatical terms, but rather use of simple punctuation and capital letters. These are pretty basic.Well put. I would add one more thing: paragraphs. If you're on your 5th sentence and haven't started a new paragraph, you should definitely consider it.

jp

[LateNight72]

And Todd (latenight72): Sorry. I didn't read your post. It's just too hard for me to make the mental connections needed to comprehend what you are saying. If that's ok with you, it's certainly ok with me.
My prior post was a tongue-in-cheek mocking of hard to read posts with poor grammar and punctuation. It was meant as a light hearted joke.

[parsonsj]

Oops!!! Sorry. I had noticed that you wrote much better in other posts. I need to lay off the late night wine. :Alchy:

jp

[LateNight72]

Oops!!! Sorry. I had noticed that you wrote much better in other posts. I need to lay off the late night wine. :Alchy:

jpDon't worry about it. :)

[TonyL]

LOL.
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It's always a good time watching these threads develop. You guys gotta understand us mods are just other car guys who, for whatever reason, agreed to mod this board. We all have our little pet peeves, just like you. We all deal with things differently. We're a cast of characters for sure. But the general point we try to convey is the same. Keep things on topic. Try your best to make a sensible, legible post.

There are many members of this board who's native language aren't even english. We know that. We deal with it. There's also members who *deliberately* type and spell with the intent to be annoying, or provocative.

Why point out when someone has really bad grammar? So that person knows how they are being perceived. Maybe they didn't realize their post looks jumbled. Or that people just don't read them for fear of it being one long run on sentence. We're trying to help most times.

Like was said above, we're doing the best we can. It's not as fun being a mod as you might think, stepping on peoples toes all the time. Trust me. It's hard.

[Vegas69]

I really don't think the folks that are mis spelling words and using improper punctuation are doing it on purpose.

[carguy502]

I really don't think the folks that are mis spelling words and using improper punctuation are doing it on purpose.
:idea: X2

[muthstryker]

I really don't think the folks that are mis spelling words and using improper punctuation are doing it on purpose.


x3 lets say your are at lunch and your are trying to hurry or what ever it may be sometimes i dont even know that im doing it


Im sometimes in a hurry, and just type really quick and dont bother to much about everything. But thats me, dont know about other people.. maybe they are new to typing and haven't figured out what happens if you hold down the "Shift" key. :dunno:

[Flash68]

The problem that I see on this site is that sometimes when certain Mods step in on a thread, they arent using much tact in how they deal with it.

This is exactly what I have been seeing. And this is the only forum out of many I spend time on that I can say this about.

Tact is a lot like common sense.... unfortunately, it is just all too uncommon.

[LateNight72]

I really don't think the folks that are mis spelling words and using improper punctuation are doing it on purpose.
That's true. But if someone can not understand what the poster is trying to say, what does it matter? I would rather have someone tell me how my grammar sucked so bad that he/she was unable to understand my post, than to just not reply.

At least with that, I am given the opportunity to clarify what I am trying to say, and then a response can be tallied.

[parsonsj]

I really don't think the folks that are mis spelling words and using improper punctuation are doing it on purpose.Tony didn't say everybody does it on purpose. He said there are some who do. And that's true. Watch carefully... and you'll see them. Chatspeak, odd capitalization, etc.

It comes down to this (sorry to be Captain Obvious): only the person writing the post knows what they actually mean. Everybody else has to figure it out from their written words. Good spelling, grammar, and thought organization (paragraphs) goes a long way to help increase the level of understanding.

jp

[BMF Machine]

SomebodY Please Lock this ThreaD. It is SuckinG my Will to LivE! SorrY GrammeR NazzI's; I have BeeN questioneD, rideculeD and made fun of. Hell, I have even had my sig hackeD a dozen times? BuT I staY TruE to the absolutE worsT grammer on this site! I always had a severe dis-like for all my EnglisH teacherS and it shows? I am excellant at MatH? 1+1=2

:box2:

[BMF Machine]

Has anyone been watching the college basketball countdown to the cutdown? Wow, I believe it is some of the best B'Ball, I've ever seen!
:spam:

[shortrack]

"a few more pics....I threw the front sheetmetal on just for the h ell of it......my wife called it the "chevello":):)"

all this talk about spelling and grammar

what do you think about my "random thought (......)" style as above?

or is that "chatspeak"???

[XLexusTech]

Signature hacked I thought I was the only one.....

[shortrack]

Signature hacked I thought I was the only one.....

what is a "hacked signature" ??

were you talking about me....???

[buickfunnycar.com]

well put. I would add one more thing: Paragraphs. If you're on your 5th sentence and haven't started a new paragraph, you should definitely consider it.

Jp

lol...

[BMF Machine]

what is a "hacked signature" ??

were you talking about me....???


My sig OccasionallY saYs....... RandoM capS are just my StylE.

Sometimes a wise arse unknown to me would change it to say something that I did not intend for it to say. It is probably a GrammeR NazI having a good time with me?

I can laugh at that BecausE I know that the Grammer NazzI would much rather see someone remove my shifT keY.:enguard: It is not going to happeN. RandoM capS are just my StylE......BaN me if ya want, Curse me if ya want, just do not call me late to supper!

NoW bacK to the mucH needed discussion about gramatical errorS.

I am getting ready to watch UNC win their conference! Go TyleR Go! DamN those BluE DiamonD UniformS are SnaZZy!

14-4=10

[Damn True]

"a few more pics....I threw the front sheetmetal on just for the h ell of it......my wife called it the "chevello":):)"

all this talk about spelling and grammar

what do you think about my "random thought (......)" style as above?

or is that "chatspeak"???

Not at all. In fact it's a fairly common literary device called an ellipsis. It was famously used for years by San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Herb Caen.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm

[shortrack]

Not at all. In fact it's a fairly common literary device called an ellipsis. It was famously used for years by San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Herb Caen.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm

didnt know that.....for me it kind of developed on its own over time...... I type with two fingers because of my huge hands and wanted to reduce verbage to a minimum to speed the process up.

[shortrack]

Im surprised no one has attributed bad grammer, run on senteces and spelling mistakes to 'PUI'

"posting under the influence....."

at some offshore boat sites I hang at this is a real possibility at any time of the day.....:)

[Damn True]

Im surprised no one has attributed bad grammer, run on senteces and spelling mistakes to 'PUI'

"posting under the influence....."

at some offshore boat sites I hang at this is a real possibility at any time of the day.....:)

I have been known to leave the occasional Single Malt fueled contribution from time to time. I usually edit them the next day.

[Vegas69]

I have to admit the same.

[BMF Machine]

AHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOO! UNC losT!

What a Bummer!

[BonzoHansen]

Tony didn't say everybody does it on purpose. He said there are some who do. And that's true. Watch carefully... and you'll see them. Chatspeak, odd capitalization, etc.

jp

I think there is a difference between once in a blue moon vs the habitual offender. The latter is annoying.....and the topic of this discussion.

[shmoov69]

Dang! I started a big thread from just a random thought!! LOL. Sorry to stir the pOOp!

[Mkelcy]

To my mind there is a difference between sites that are aggresivly independent and those that seek support from vendors and members. C-C.com has no sponsorships and no paid memberships. Those that run the site are free to do (and allow) whatever they choose.

Pro-touring.com is different. It accepts both sponsors and paid memberships. In that context, I think the mods owe a different standard of behavior to members.

Public chastisement by a mod shouldn't be part of the deal. A PM making whatever point the mod thinks appropriate should suffice; and then if the member choses to ignore the advice, so be it. We are all free to ignore posts that are ungrammatical, poorly spelled or ask questuons that have been asked a 1,000 times before.

Pointing out that a member who ignores grammar and is currently unemployed seems like the cheapest of shots.

This site can become C-C.com, and I will immediately ask Larry for a refund, or it can continue as the (mostly) tolerant place it has been. I have my pet peeves, and will express them from time to time, but I don't speak for the site they way mods do.

[BMF Machine]

Thanks Mike, but I am back at work now; with an unstable disk. I short stepped the stairs out of my basement at about 3:30 am Monday morning. I bent all 5 toes about 135 degrees straight up and back about 45 degrees, sprained my ankle, smacked my face off some stairs and dislocated my hip(again). I still worked 50 hours in steel toe boots this week. I have gotten extremely tough, both mentally and physically.
Words will never get to me...........

Habitual offender? Annoying??:moon:
:lol:


Opinions are like......... Well we all know that line don't we?

[BonzoHansen]

nbl Kev. :cheers:

[BMF Machine]

So many times I have felt like I have hit bottom and could start clawing back up.

At the bottom of the stairs that morning, I finally realized I had a lot more falling to do, before I ever get close to the bottom.:)

[WS6]

Glad to hear you're looking at things in a positive light still Kevin. Personally, I love your random caps posts. They crack me up because they suppliment the wit that is present in the post. Besides that, it also makes me question just what all those pills you are having to take are doing to you. :) I say keep it up to break up the monotony.

20x4-9= 71

[BMF Machine]

Glad to hear you're looking at things in a positive light still Kevin. Personally, I love your random caps posts. They crack me up because they suppliment the wit that is present in the post. Besides that, it also makes me question just what all those pills you are having to take are doing to you. :) I say keep it up to break up the monotony.

20x4-9= 71


WerD!

All my friends KnoW the way my eyebrows raise, they know I will laugh frantically every chancE I get. They KnoW I can make a ten hour day feel like five. If you work hard enough at LunCh you will forget the morning and it is like a NeW day!

My RandoM caps are not ment to harm anyones eyes or raise ModZ bloodpressure. It is just a way I cominicate my PersonA througH this wonderful place where we all gather to B-S.

If it offends someone, I guess that is a PluS 1. If it erks someone, that is a pluS 2. So on and so on.........

Yes, many of us are more serious than others?? I assure you I am not. PluS all of my postS can fall under the PUI ruleZ. My theripast and my doctor both now say I should have surgery. My theripast will not even see me anymore. He says I am destroying my hip and it will need replaced as well. I say good, two for one discount, when the time comes.

BaHHHH, the surgeoN says I need to quit smoking for six weeks. I asked for a HacK that would fix me while I was SmokinG and they did not take me serious?

If I was in a car wreck and needed a fusion to keep me from being paraliZed? they would do it. Right? Then why can't they do it noW?? I bet I can out wait them.

:smoke::smoke: I bet I will!:smoke::smoke:

ThE only person that enjoys smoking more than me is those damn smiley faces!


If I injure a fusion, I am screwed for life. Right now, I can over do it and pop myself back in place, so why screw up a good thing?

And oh SnaP, I just noticed you are beyond My range of MathmaticaL equationS. TimE to break out the CalculatoR to top that ShiZ..........

256x2-12=500

[jst8a5.0]

I guess I might be a little behind on the grammar and spelling thing. My dad used to use this real redneck as a subcontractor. We used to read the invoice after he left because the spelling and grammar were so aweful. We had an absolute blast reading them because he would just go and make up words. "Dramastic," "Sole sobrietor," were only a couple of the ones I could remember. Oh and the second one was how he described his business. So it comes down to this, I laugh at your aweful grammar and spelling. It isn't because I feel like I am better, it's just entertaining to see how people make their own spelling and grammar rules!