LiveJournal Etiquette

[jordy]

A lesson in what shits me most about peoples' LiveJournals.

What to do:

• Write things as you'd say them. I can't stress this any more. Things become so open to interpretation. If someone doesn't understand what you're saying, you're missing out on a number of points.
• Use punctuation. Apostrophes, capitalisation, commas, full stops and paragraphs.

Comments

[and0o]

amen, altho, i know i'm guilty of a few things (i hate using proper capitalization, just a habit), i still mostly agree with pretty much everything. and to the other replies, i've taken people off my friends page because they posted too much... i just got sick of having to see their senseless babble.. usually that's what gets you up to >3-4 posts a day...

[jordy]

Agreed. I'm shocking with capitalisation sometimes too :P

[satanic_angel]

hahahaha..I do practicaslly all of those things and i dont give a shit :P~~ lol

[jordy]

Yeah, I noticed. I gave up on you a long while ago. :P

[boobookittifukk]

Apologies, but I'll have to agree with the point of view that what people do on their journal is their business. If they want to use alternate cases or have bad grammar and spelling, then that's their choice. No one should be able to dictate to others what they can and can't do.

I'm big on civil liberties. If you don't like it, delete them from your friends list or just scroll past it.

[jasonbourne]

You idiot, if you can't spell it, HOW DOES A DICTIONARY HELP?

[jordy]

SPELLING SUGGESTIONS!

[jasonbourne]

Ah Timmy, forever trapped in a virtual world. :)

A REAL dictionary has REAL meanings, and NO spelling suggestions! :o

You just gotta be smart!

You'll notice that I've used correct spelling and reasonable grammar in this post, as well as capitals and full punctuation. This is post 4 for the day, so I think I'll end it HERE.

[jordy]

Which is why I LINKED to dictionary.com!

and congratulations darren on your propper grammer and speeling

;D

[grovephelia]

Fuckin' A.
People who can't follow these rules need a TV set, not a bloody computer with an Internet connection. The other thing that shits me is LJ posts dedicated to 'memes' and quiz results, like anyone else on the planet actually gives a flying fuck about what some program randomly generated for them.

People who can't punctuate or follow the other basic rules of the english language (other than people who don't blog in english :p), are either in their early teens, or hav the mentality of a thirteen year old. Generally they don't have anything worthy of reading anyway.

And don't get me started on people who use that damn tag. People who do that musn't have a clue about how many Internet codes of practice they're ignoring. If only it were their fingers and not the guidelines that were being broken.

virtually yours,
- syzygy

[xxkitt3nxx]

Maybe some people don't like to apply english class to their livejournal because they want to let their personality show. After all, it IS their JOURNAL, they can do what they want to, how they want to. If you want to assume that their mentality is that of a 13 year old 'coz they like to use slang or don't like to use capitals, then I suggest you get out of the habit of tunnel thinking.

Sorry I can't conform to the common idea of what is "Livejournal Etiquette".. Wait. No, I'm not.

broken "rules of the english language " from this post...

[vyode]

incorrect:
"The other thing that shits me is LJ posts dedicated..."
correct:
The other thing that shits me are LJ posts dedicated... (the subject "posts" is plural, the verb must be as well)

incorrect:
"or hav the mentality of a ..."
incorrectly spelled

Oh please...

[flee178]

Sorry, i didn't catch your name.

Hitler was it?

No?

Well surely you can understand my confusion; what with your precise outline as to the way an ideal internet race would behave...

As far as i'm concerned, the points you've outlined do, in fact, make for more pleasant reading. But christ, be a little more tolerant. It's your kind who start wars, not the idiots who can't spell.

Here's a tip: what you dislike, ignore.

Maybe one day someone'll teach you that your way isn't necessarily the right way.

Fool.