Posting Styles: Aligning

6th

Ok so people can be pretty picky about other peoples use of grammer, punctuation etc and it can be more of a pain in the hole to complaints than to read the offending post.

Over on the Paranormal Forum yesterday we had a thread were the OP's post wasnt the easiest to read but thats hardly a hanging offence - the responses to him were (in most cases) about how he posted and not what he posted. A ban was even handed out when one poster decided he had the right to throw abuse at the OP.

Dont get me wrong txt spk is a bit annoying but what about people who just dont follow all the rules of the english language?

Anyway now for a question to my fellow Boardsies - how would you react to my posts if I posted in the style of the following 2 examples?

And mods, would y ou ban me from your forums for posting in either style?

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Style A:

Over on the Paranormal Forum yesterday we had a thread were the OP's post wasnt the easiest to read but thats hardly a hanging offence - the responses to him were (in most cases) about how he posted and not what he posted. A ban was even handed out when one poster decided he had the right to throw abuse at the OP.

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Style B:

Over on the Paranormal Forum yesterday we had a thread were the OP's post wasnt the easiest to read but thats hardly a hanging offence - the responses to him were (in most cases) about how he posted and not what he posted. A ban was even handed out when one poster decided he had the right to throw abuse at the OP.

monkeyfudge

I don't think I've ever come across anyone mad enough to right align their post.

Centre can be very irritating for large blocks of text, but it's not a banning offense as it can be fixed very easy.

A block of text that has no punctuation or is full of text speak isn't so easy to fix.

Beruthiel

Maybe I'm not awake yet, but I'm seeing fuk all difference between style A and B

/edit
Not awake then.
Didn't even notice the right alignment thingie...
I did however notice a few spelling mistakes and a lack of commas... Not bad enough however to hang, draw and quarter you.

6th

Sober?

monkeyfudge

Beruthiel wrote: »

Maybe I'm not awake yet, but I'm seeing fuk all difference between style A and B

You're not awake yet... or you have a small browser window.

6th

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Centre can be very irritating for large blocks of text, but it's not a banning offense as it can be fixed very easy.

Fixed? Are posts that are centred or right aligned considered broken?

Beruthiel

monkeyfudge wrote: »

You're not awake yet... or you have a small browser window.

Small window, it hides neatly behind the accounts package I'm supposed to be working on...


6th - bite me

6th

Beruthiel wrote: »

6th - bite me

And then what? Sit around waiting for you to call? I don't think so, I've been hurt before.

dudara

TBH, given a large enough block of text, you wouldn't really notice the difference between right justified and centered.

Txtspk and poor grammar and punctuation is what annoys me the most. Some mistakes are acceptable, but a whole block of text without caps or punctuation is too hard to read.

monkeyfudge

6th wrote: »

Fixed? Are posts that are centred or right aligned considered broken?

It's irritating to read, then yes. It's difficult to read text that flows from right to left. So unless there is some brilliant reason for it to be that way then the poster should expect to be asked to change it.

Oryx

Beruthiel wrote: »

Small window, it hides neatly behind the accounts package I'm supposed to be working on...


6th - bite me

Ha, I do that too, the accounts thing that is, not bite 6th.

And for goodness sake 6th, its grammar. Where did you go to school?

Edit, on topic, neither of those styles bother me, but disstyledoeswhen i cnt B bovvered wit capitalsr fullstops orspacin r evenspelinan i jst rant onandonaon.

6th

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It's irritating to read, then yes. It's difficult to read text that flows from right to left. So unless there is some brilliant reason for it to be that way then the poster should expect to be asked to change it.

Its not like its written backwards so its still reading left to right. BTW I am not saying that perfectly acceptable to change the alignment, just wondering about peoples opinions on it.

6th

KtK wrote: »

And for goodness sake 6th, its grammar. Where did you go to school?

Tallaght.

Beruthiel

Slow day for you today 6th?

kaimera

Unless its txt spaek I dont mind; heck I've posters who type in bold for no apparent reason :-/

Centered I find easier to read than right justified however and I'd prolly advise a poster to change it for make glorious benefit of forums.

Gordon

6th wrote: »

Tallaght.

Yes, that is annoying.

6th

Beruthiel wrote: »

Slow day for you today 6th?

A little, I mean I have plenty to do but this seems like such a worthy cause - beats all the other "Banned from X Forum" threads, for me anyway.

DeVore

I wouldnt ban you but equally I have no idea what you posted in this thread because I skipped your posts...

Soz...

DeV.

monkeyfudge

It breaks the flow of the thread and makes it difficult to scan down through it.

6th

Whats the point in having a right align/centred option?

6th

So come on, who would ban me if I started to right align all my posts? I really have no intention of doing it, I get few enough christmas cards as it is!

monkeyfudge

Why have it in a word processor?

They have their uses... but they are being used for no reason then they can just be disruptive.

6th

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It breaks the flow of the thread and makes it difficult to scan down through it.

So?

Gordon

6th wrote: »

A little, I mean I have plenty to do but this seems like such a worthy cause - beats all the other "Banned from X Forum" threads, for me anyway.

And to those that post in black coloured font - I'm not reading your post as it's invisible on the Cloud theme. Why you would force your text black, I have no idea, it's rather silly imo.

monkeyfudge

6th wrote: »

So?

Reading a thread should be made as comfortable as possible. Overly large sigs are also disruptive and I'll edit them out if I think they are making the thread difficult to read.

6th

Gordon wrote: »

And to those that post in black coloured font - I'm not reading your post as it's invisible on the Cloud theme. Why you would force your text black, I have no idea, it's rather silly imo.

People are weird, well some people. Can you read this Gordie La Forge?

6th

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Reading a thread should be made as comfortable as possible.

Then I need a better chair!

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Overly large sigs are also disruptive and I'll edit them out if I think they are making the thread difficult to read.

Interesting sigs distract me from threads to, we shouldnt be so fussy.

tbh

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Reading a thread should be made as comfortable as possible. Overly large sigs are also disruptive and I'll edit them out if I think they are making the thread difficult to read.

if the poster has something they want to say, making it difficult to read will only affect the poster because people don't read what they have said. I havn't read any of 6ths posts on this thread because I couldn't be arsed moving my pupils slightly to the right just to read (I assume) how deadly he thinks boards is. So, really, he's only hurting himself. I have no problem with that.

6th

tbh wrote: »

if the poster has something they want to say, making it difficult to read will only affect the poster because people don't read what they have said. I havn't read any of 6ths posts on this thread because I couldn't be arsed moving my pupils slightly to the right just to read (I assume) how deadly he thinks boards is. So, really, he's only hurting himself. I have no problem with that.

I do think Boards is deadly btw. Anyway I'm not hurting myself by right aligning in this thread because thats the point of the thread. The question is would you ban someone from a forum for posting in this manner. Even though you may choose to just ignore the posts would you ignore the posts from other Boardsies who would take a thread off topic by complaining in thread about this style of posting?

I wont try it out in any other forum/thread as given my reasons for doing it, it would just be trolling.

Gordon

I dunno.



is this



anoying to you?






or could you read someone's post if they posted






like this??









It's just text

right? Isn't it?






if I see someone post in a w





ay that breaks the flow of the







thread I get annoyed or ignore their post






.




Slow news day methinks.

tbh

6th wrote: »

I do think Boards is deadly btw. Anyway I'm not hurting myself by right aligning in this thread because thats the point of the thread. The question is would you ban someone from a forum for posting in this manner. Even though you may choose to just ignore the posts would you ignore the posts from other Boardsies who would take a thread off topic by complaining in thread about this style of posting?

I wont try it out in any other forum/thread as given my reasons for doing it, it would just be trolling.

if enough people complained, I'd ask the poster to post normally, unless there was a reason for aligning it to the right. If anyone complained on the thread, I'd ask them to report it, same as for any other back-seat-modding type comment.

Gordon

Oh, btw, right aligned text features are also used for certain right aligned languages/scripts such as Arabic. Not sure if people post in Arabic on this site but we have the option to cater for that.

6th

Ok well I'm greatful for the opinions I have received so far.

Stark

6th wrote: »

I do think Boards is deadly btw. Anyway I'm not hurting myself by right aligning in this thread because thats the point of the thread. The question is would you ban someone from a forum for posting in this manner. Even though you may choose to just ignore the posts would you ignore the posts from other Boardsies who would take a thread off topic by complaining in thread about this style of posting?

I wont try it out in any other forum/thread as given my reasons for doing it, it would just be trolling.

I'd probably edit the post and send the user a warning.

cornbb

**As long as you don't end up posting anything backwards, I'm happy

(http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/fun-with-unicode-and-mirroring.html)

Edit: dang, my trick didn't render properly

faceman

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stupid
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I was debating with myself as to where to put the comma. What do you think?

6th

I like the comma where it is.

Thank you for posting, faceman.

6th

faceman wrote: »

I was debating with myself as to where to put the comma.

Who won?

Anyway I'm bored with this thread now. It did its job though, its lunchtime.

smashey

This thread hurts my eyes.

I'm going to ban some poor innocent to see if we can get a good old fashioned "fight da powah" thread going.

Gordon

6th wrote: »

Who won?

Anyway I'm bored with this thread now. It did its job though, its lunchtime.

Tough, it's here to haunt you for eternity.

Boston

I'd probably ban the user for the site and delete are their posts. But that based on a sample set of one so far...

In all seriousness I think right align is great. It makes stuff easier to ignore.

6th

Gordon wrote: »

Tough, it's here to haunt you for eternity.

I could try bust it? Bustin' makes me feel gud!

Nevyn

IT certainly has it's functions.

it woudl be one way of telling the differences

between the different voices

in a person's head and who it is that

it typint this time but it certainly

has it's flaws due to the fact that

sets the limits two three voices or

opinions.

Nevyn

Actually that could make posting in parrots normal fun again.

watna

Well it'd get on my tits. At first i thought 6th was posting blank posts because you automatically read from left to right. I had to re-read the thread.

However, if someone is stupid enough to align their text right then missing their posts probably isn't causing me too much harm.

Boston

6th wrote: »

Sober?

Btw, stuff like that I take a really low opinion off. Just who the fuk do you think you are exactly?

6th

Boston wrote: »

Btw, stuff like that I take a really low opinion off. Just who the fuk do you think you are exactly?

Don't like it? Report it.

I think it was taken as the joke it was.

Terry

Gordon wrote: »

And to those that post in black coloured font - I'm not reading your post as it's invisible on the Cloud theme. Why you would force your text black, I have no idea, it's rather silly imo.

Probably to get away with calling you a dick.

OT, I wouldn't ban someone straight away, but I would ask them to use proper alignment and font. If they ignored the request, I would probably ban them for a couple of days.

As for back seat modding, I don't see a problem with one or two people pointing out that txt spk or whatever is irritating (in a polite way), but I'd draw the line at continuous abuse.

GuanYin

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It's irritating to read

Are you sure thats just the alignment?

tbh

ZING! oh no you dih'nt!

Marksie

I am with terry on this one as regards text speak. Hate the bloody stuff. Especially if they also combine it with half a page type with only commas or no breaks.

As for typos, well i type fast and will often not double check so i cannot complain about others spelling.

If they made an attempt at grammar and the meaning of the post was clear then its fine by me.

But continued dat, cud, wud, and all that crap will get a warning then i will remove the posts or if its the OP delete the thread.

As for the alignment meh it is ok