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qem_chibati

10/9/07 02:58 pm

My thoughts on the recent wankity-wank.

I find it somewhat ironic that everyone is going on about readability when.

Uh.

Fact:
Lowercase is easier to read than uppercase.

MY OPINION:
I'd personally rather people paragraph than use mixed case. There are people I seriously want to go and stabbity in there and the OP isn't one of them.

DISCLAIMER:
Mixed case is nice too, though.

Fact:
Ow. Ow. Ow. My eyes, my eyes.

Viva la boredom. o.o;

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That being said, I agree that making an effort to make your posts readable goes a long way in keeping people amicable. + It is polite because it makes things a lot easier for people and more likely to pay attention to the meaning than focusing on the semantics.

+ What's so hard about adjusting your writing style for the group your writing to. It's not like that's completely different from what you do in meatspace anyway...

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• white_serpent

  10/9/07 05:22 am (UTC)

  

  Yes, it really is all about the boredom.
  
  But:
  What's so hard about adjusting your writing style for the group your writing to. It's not like that's completely different from what you do in meatspace anyway...
  
  I think if she'd responded to the first comment with, "Oh, yes. This is the way I usually write in my journal; sorry, I'll do it differently here." ...or, really, in any way but "it's art! how dare you fail to recognize my art!"... it would have died aborning. Alas, she had to defend herself to everyone, then she got offended and decided we were all racists (except not with skin color or religion or anything... what??).
  
  Also:
  It is polite because it makes things a lot easier for people and more likely to pay attention to the meaning than focusing on the semantics.
  
  People likely wouldn't have noticed at all if they hadn't been completely lost by the "je fandom" referenced in the wank report. So, the style issue stood out because of problems with the content.

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  • qem_chibati

    10/9/07 07:17 am (UTC)

    

    I agree if she'd turned around and edited the post straight away it wouldn't of made it to both we_Wank and wankity_wank and explode there as well.
    
    But while the content being unclear did exasperate the issue, I still think that there would of been people making snarky comments at gunhilda.

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    • white_serpent

      10/9/07 03:22 pm (UTC)

      

      But while the content being unclear did exasperate the issue, I still think that there would of been people making snarky comments at gunhilda.
      
      Oh, now there, yes. I do agree.

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• ashenmote

  10/9/07 08:30 am (UTC)

  

  On the danger of sounding like a total idiot, what's paragraphing?

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  • qem_chibati

    10/9/07 10:31 am (UTC)

    

    Basically it's using the enter button (I swear if you hit it, it won't hit back)!
    
    Instead of making everything one solid block of text, you split it up into ideas, spacing it out, allowing more focus on one concept at a time, and it reduces the chances of peoples eyes going cross-eyed and your post looking like something the cat vomited up.
    
    As an example of what paragraphing is, this comment should have about four mini-paragraphs in total. Though usually it's a bit more than a sentence at at time. Which is why this is a slightly more tl;dr than normal answer. :)
    
    I uh, favour comparatively small paragraphs since it since it makes things a hell of a lot easier for myself to read. But using -any- would be nice. I find it highly ironic that someone was going on about ease of reading when their post takes me at least double the normal amount of time to read and adds to my headache when doing so.

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      qem_chibati

      10/9/07 10:32 am (UTC)

      

      Basically it's using the enter button (I swear if you hit it, it won't hit back)! Instead of making everything one solid block of text, you split it up into ideas, spacing it out, allowing more focus on one concept at a time, and it reduces the chances of peoples eyes going cross-eyed and your post looking like something the cat vomited up. As an example of what paragraphing is, this comment should have about four mini- on big paragraphs in total. Though usually it's a bit more than a sentence at at time. Which is why this is a slightly more tl;dr than normal answer. :) I uh, favour comparatively small paragraphs since it since it makes things a hell of a lot easier for myself to read. But using -any- would be nice. I find it highly ironic that someone was going on about ease of reading when their post takes me at least double the normal amount of time to read and adds to my headache when doing so.

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        ashenmote

        10/9/07 11:04 am (UTC)

        

        Ahaha, yes. The point isa well made.

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    • ashenmote

      10/9/07 11:21 am (UTC)

      

      Ah, thanks. I was wondering if you mean that, but I was stuck with the notion that it would be an alternative to lowercase and uppercase that somehow escaped me. It seemed unlikely, but then I sometimes stumble over enormous gaps in my knowledge, and I had to ask just to make sure this is not one of them.
      
      Yes, paragraphs are good. I love them. I produce blocks of text when I'm terribly excited or if I get lost in run-on-sentences. Or both. But otherwise there will be paragraphs.

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      • qem_chibati

        10/9/07 12:20 pm (UTC)

        

        No problem, I get to vent more about why the enter key is your friend while not feeling like I'm about to be frust into a flamewar. XD
        
        And I can understand the feeling. @.@;
        
        
        *nods* I can understand that, I don't mind when it's a once of situation and it's about being lost in a particular mood and pace... But. Paragraphs are good. Repeat, repeat, repeat!

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• harrylovesron

  10/9/07 02:04 pm (UTC)

  

  But... the caps... think of the caps! ;____;
  
  I know typing the wank report in all caps had to annoy some people, but personally, I thought it was funny and drove the point home that AR-TEESTIC XPRESSHUN actually can = really fucking annoying. Well, to everyone except grunhilda that is.

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  • qem_chibati

    10/9/07 10:04 pm (UTC)

    

    The wank report was funny, but I found the people taking it seriously, seriously lacking in that department. ;.;

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• littlebitca

  10/9/07 03:28 pm (UTC)

  

  Personally, I loved the whine in the original post that "I find it extraordinary that no one has understood that it is my deliberate choice not to use caps in the beginning of sentences."
  
  Oh, we totally understand that. We just think it makes you look foolish. And then we eat our own.

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  • qem_chibati

    10/9/07 11:47 pm (UTC)

    

    Amen. XD

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