New HuskerBoard Rule
- Thread starter I Bleed RED
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It's cool, if you misspell or use very poor grammar it makes your opinions look stupid on that alone. Your only method of conveyance on the internet are your words, and if you can't spell or use them properly, I don't really take them seriously. I won't stop to correct you, but I won't read the post let alone debate it, also.
HUSKER 37
New member
What do you mean, "rulz"?it's a medieval board jester dammit. ya freakin' non facist.
Gotta admit Husker 37 rulz
GBR
Although I was trying to come up with the Jester response you gave.
(You probably saved me 15 min. of googling)
Oh yeah..One of me favourite translation sites: Dialectizer Convert English text to any of several comic dialects.
Too bad it dosent...doesnt....Don't work backward.
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
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DaveH
Team HuskerBoard
What he said.
People make mistakes. Especially if you are seeing red with some of the stuff that's posted. But really, I think if you have a college education you wouldn't want to look like a moron.
DaveH
Team HuskerBoard
NUpolo8
Banned
True enough. And for the record, if certain people who bleed colors or people who eat insects can repeatedly post about how smart they are and how stupid certain coaches are, yet their posts are littered with errors, in my opinion they ask for it.
AR Husker Fan
Team HuskerBoard
This is not a final decision on the matter, but my thought is that we don't need this rule, for a number of reasons.
1. Most of the time, the "correction" does no harm. It may not contribute to the thread per se, but likewise it doesn't usually do any damage.
2. A rule like this will inevitably lead to requests for similar rules - which, in the end, simply constitutes a request to ban what amounts to an irritant. If we honor all such requests, soon we won't have any threads, posters, or posts. I, personally, find egregious grammatical and spelling errors (note the use of the word "egregious") distracting; it breaks the flow in reading the post. However, for many, it isn't an issue. The point is that it becomes impossible to ban every kind of posting style that distracts one or more readers.
3. What the hey - perhaps the corrections actually do some good. Perhaps the person who posts "I could care less" will actually learn that the term is "I couldn't care less" (since if you could care less, that means you must care to some degree). Perhaps they will learn that two is a number, too is synonymous with also, and to is a preposition. Perhaps someone will learn that your is possessive, while you're is a contraction of you are. This is HuskerBoard! We are a standard-bearer! We raise the level of discourse - we don't succumb to fads and lower standards.
To quote from The Sure Thing, "You're flunking English. That's your mother tongue!"
In the immoral words of Stan Lee, "'Nuff said!!!"
1. Most of the time, the "correction" does no harm. It may not contribute to the thread per se, but likewise it doesn't usually do any damage.
2. A rule like this will inevitably lead to requests for similar rules - which, in the end, simply constitutes a request to ban what amounts to an irritant. If we honor all such requests, soon we won't have any threads, posters, or posts. I, personally, find egregious grammatical and spelling errors (note the use of the word "egregious") distracting; it breaks the flow in reading the post. However, for many, it isn't an issue. The point is that it becomes impossible to ban every kind of posting style that distracts one or more readers.
3. What the hey - perhaps the corrections actually do some good. Perhaps the person who posts "I could care less" will actually learn that the term is "I couldn't care less" (since if you could care less, that means you must care to some degree). Perhaps they will learn that two is a number, too is synonymous with also, and to is a preposition. Perhaps someone will learn that your is possessive, while you're is a contraction of you are. This is HuskerBoard! We are a standard-bearer! We raise the level of discourse - we don't succumb to fads and lower standards.
To quote from The Sure Thing, "You're flunking English. That's your mother tongue!"
In the immoral words of Stan Lee, "'Nuff said!!!"
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BIGREDIOWAN
Mods
Lock the thread.....................Lock the thread.........................Lock the thread..............
slacker
Team HuskerBoard
I agree with AR, know gnew rulz on this topic. And please do not correct my grammar or spelling, I don't like it.
Going forward, if anyone thinks we need new rules it would probably be best to pm an Admin, do not make it part of the board discussion. As AR points out, more often then not there are usually ulterior motives for the requesting of new rules.
Going forward, if anyone thinks we need new rules it would probably be best to pm an Admin, do not make it part of the board discussion. As AR points out, more often then not there are usually ulterior motives for the requesting of new rules.
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HUSKER 37
New member
ETR..Ha, you're referring directly to me. Very subtle. :sarcasm
And usually, I don't care about someone's bad grammar on a message board. And in the recent case where I corrected the grammar of an Iowa State troll, it was because he came onto this board with the sole intent to talk trash and annoy us. I'll correct his grammar, just to get in his face.
Also, if you would have even READ beyond the grammar corrections I made, you would have seen that I talked more about the upcoming football game than about his grammar mistakes.
So shove it.
EDIT: Have you ever seen me attack the grammar of a member of this board who contributes positively and intelligently? No.
Don';t tell someone to shove it.....warning
What does that term mean? and why is it drawing a warning? (PM me if the answer is too offensive).
Seems like it became popular around the same time as "Keep on Truckin'", and I'm sure I've been told to shove "stuff"? a few times in the past, but what does it really mean? I'm assuming it's short for something, like when you call someone a "Mother", and you leave off the naughty word, but everyone knows what you mean.
I never bothered to find out what I was sposed to push.
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Never mind..(Thanks Google)
I guess it's not important "What" is being shoved, but Where It's being moved to..I vaguely remember something about a location that doesn't get much sun.
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