When posting paranoid rants to mailing lists and message boards, please observe the following tips.
Paragraphs are your friend. No more than two or three sentences per paragraph please. Speaking of which…
Sentences are not paragraphs. They tend to be shorter. They also have these things called commas which divide them up.
Sumarise your actual point, assuming there is just the one, so I have a vague idea of what it is you’re rambling about.
Capitalisation is not an either/or option. Upper and Lower case characters can co-exist peacefully in the same sentence when employed correctly.
If you don’t do this and just post a massive block of obnoxious text I am unlikely to read it and respond and you’ll never know how much of an idiot I think you are.
Actually, carry on as usual.
Just to note, your comments dont automatically add line breaks, which is slightly annoying.
Yes they do, but I think the Preview is borked, which since I never use it I’ve never bothered to fix it.
Will do so now.
Um, yes they do.
I’ve never bothered with the preview, but fwiw.. brown isn’t as nice as white. And it is everso nice, you can see all the previous comments.
And it does auto-line break, too :)
I think that you have a cheek to aim that kind of criticsm at people it’s not like you’re perfect yourself mister high and mighty I mean what if I had a valid point but just had trouble communicating it or had poor education or my return key was broken and some people don’t like commas you know and heaven knows that no-one remembers how to use semi-colons so you can’t expect any of them to show up hell it’s a wonder that there is any punctuation at all and I’ll bet a pound to a well to something else that apostrophes are scarce too right?
;-)
A nice attempt, Gordon, but you didn’t descend into impenetrable gibberish in the final 50 words. Nor did you use object of you’re ire’s Jewish heritage as a basis for criticism (which is only really going to work if you’re sure your audience is 100% anti-semite, and in the context of a comics-related discussion is kinda laughable to anyone who knows their history). Above all you have to have the elements of an interesting and insightful point buried in all that.
If you hadn’t already guessed, I was letting off steam “off list” while the mods did their job.
Are we talking about message board twattery? It makes you notorious you know? Imagine my dismay when I realised that an Eminent International Cartoonist had actually HEARD of my arch nemesis (who shall remain nameless) due to the guy in question’s fondness for message board twattery.
This E.I.C. hadn’t heard of ME but in the context of M.B.T that’s no bad thing I guess.
Am I allowed to say ‘twattery’ in these things?
I’ve finally worked out what you’re talking about (I *think*). It really must have caught you on a particularly bad day. I just closed down when I got to “yid” …
And Mardou, I feel I can speak for Pete on this, you can absolutely say twattery. You can say whatever you like, because we love you. I almost wrote “we love your ‘twattery’”, but that could be misconstrued in so many terrible ways.
Don’t think I haven’t had my finger hovering over DELETE recently. Comic yahoogroups seem to be the worst places for attracting maniacs.
When one of the moderators bans/edits something – we get complaints but when someone uses offensive terms nobody blinks.
I sometimes think these groups get the members they deserve!
Ahh right, sorry about that Pete.
Must try harder (to insult).
Me: (and you really have to identify yourself, purely for my own curiosity, though I think I know who you are…) I think people blink and blink hard but they know not to feed the trolls and let the mods deal with it. And yes, comics boards do attract the wankers, which is why most of the ones I hang on are invite only. I often wish this one was…
Jez is right, “twattery” is okay. In fact I may use it myself. And yes, it was one of those “oh, for FUCK’s sake!” moments. I blame the heat.