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Changing members' typing habits
11-30-2006, 02:52 AM
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| Title: Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 Location: New Jersey, USA     
| Changing members' typing habits A lot of members on my forum are younger, and they all type in netspeak, or whatever you want to call it. I think this is degrading our forums and may be unappealing to guests, because there seems to be so much of it on our forums. I was wondering how I can get them to stop typing like this? Here's an example of the kind of post that I'm talking about: http://talkbudgies.com/showpost.php?p=43420&postcount=1
__________________ Talk Budgies - a site for budgie owners to talk about budgies Talk Parrotlets - where parrotlet enthusiasts come to talk about parrotlets  | ||||
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11-30-2006, 03:27 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,624 Location: Holmfirth, England  
| Personally i have in my rules this Quote:
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11-30-2006, 10:54 PM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 920 Location: Alberta Canada
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11-30-2006, 11:14 PM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,518 | Yes, consider including some proper spelling/grammar guidlines in the Registration Agreement and/or the forum rules. This method has been tested and proven effective.  Chris | ||||
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11-30-2006, 11:30 PM
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| Title: Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 56 Location: New Jersey, USA
| I changed the forum guidelines posted at registration so they show my forum rules and not the default ones that come with the software. While this is good for new members (they'll have no excuses), what should I do with existing members, as no mentions of this was ever mentioned in the rules.
__________________ Talk Budgies - a site for budgie owners to talk about budgies Talk Parrotlets - where parrotlet enthusiasts come to talk about parrotlets | ||||
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12-01-2006, 04:28 AM
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| Title: Groupie
Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 36 | if ur worried bout member postin liek dis all da time here wut i wud do if i wer u as soon as sum 1 posted dis wud i ban dem? plz nah I usually censor all words like that. lyk=like wud=would, sum = some, lol=laughing out loud, dis=this and so on. I also censor all caps. This looks so ugly: HEY DID YOU GUYS HER ABOUT [ENTER NEWS ITEM HERE]??????? I HEARD IT WAS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME!!!!!!! LOL! CHECK IT OOOOOOOOOOOUT!!!!!!11!1 | ||||
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12-01-2006, 03:50 PM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 700 Location: www.NewOniTunes.com
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12-01-2006, 04:37 PM
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Title: www.Centicero.com
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,017 Location: Devon, United Kingdom
| Direct from my rules: Quote:
It's rather effective. If anyone wants to put it into their rules feel free [but do not copy all of my rules.] | |||||
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