earlshaggwell wrote...
i just got jacked by this crap, it said it blocked me for capitalization, so i capped the first letter beat the system. the worst part was that i wrote an entire paragraph and it erased the whole thing. i've had problems with other forums not letting posts go thru, so i copied before hitting the post button. otherwise i would have been super pissed at having to rewrite the whole thing. so what if i type in all lower case, i write in all caps. it doesn't mean i'm less intelegent, it just means i'm lazy. at least i don't use that 1337 speak garbage and do use punctuation. i also proof read for spelling, and use the edit button if i see something i missed the first time. in conclusion, it's the standards, not always the posts that are lacking.
Capitalization isn't a super-high standard that only a select few can live up to or that requires a lot of time or effort. Just press the shift button when you start a sentence. I can understand being upset about losing a post because you didn't capitalize, but there's no reason to say that the standards are lacking. I think it's good that this site has standards, and they are rather low standards. A fifth-grade English class is more strict than Fakku.
If you lose a post because you didn't capitalize a letter, then learn from it and start capitalizing. Correctly capitalizing all of your posts for the next year would take less effort than writing and posting this post of yours did.
Yeah, it's the internet, and yeah, people are lazy, but that's no excuse to disregard the simplest grammar rule.