ROFL at the thread title. :cer_laugh:
i ink if u gramer soooo mutz ur gramer natzy !! !
Seriously though, you can't force people into typing correctly. I mean, grammar isn't the law. And also a lot of members who type like that are just too lazy to type properly. Let lazies be lazy.
Yeah, I agree, "n00b talk" can get
insanely annoying (primarily because it may imply poor incoherent thoughts or a lack of effort on the poster's part), like the poster in question is an infant trapped in an teen's/adult's body with a minimal grasp on the concept of language and communication. However, proper typing shouldn't be construed as "Law of the Internet". The only time I even
attempt to talk like that is when I'm making a comedic side comment in a post or something for the "LULZ".
Anyway, I tend to respect people a little more when they actually take the time to properly adhere to spelling and grammatical rules and such, rather than tyepin liek dis 4 @ lejit msg. I get irritated when people use erroneous spelling that ends up being
longer than the actual proper word (i.e., Fireworks' nubby spelling of "natzy" seen earlier).
But typically, I don't like to be one who
forces people to adhere to standards crafted by others, and I don't think rules should be implemented on the basis of what's annoying. "Annoyingness" is subjective to the user, and it shouldn't necessarily be reflected in rules and policies and such. But if you "n00b-type" for the purpose of solely contributing SPAM,
that's when a rule can be constructed, as SPAM can objectively be seen to contribute essentially nothing to a forum.
In conclusion, I'd personally prefer such a rule for my eyes' sake, but a rule like this shouldn't really be imposed on users. If someone knows proper language and still wishes to convey their message in "n00b-type", I'll just let them be lazy. It's their loss if I just gloss over their eyesore-ish post and move on (thus rendering the time they spent typing for naught), and I'd rather spend time
posting for discussion contribution than critiquing someone's conversational manner of speaking/typing. >_>