New Rule

[Nate_Benton]

Okay, I'm sick of seeing it. Shorthand. As in "ne1" or "how bout dis?"
I've been seeing this lately, and when it gets to the point where staff can't even understand what you are saying due to your shorthand, then there needs to be a stop.
Feel free to discuss the matter in this thread. I want feedback.

[Jordan K]

I wonder if ne1s going to agree with this. :hsdance:

[Alejandro]

I think I agree, it's ok when you 'sometimes' use expressions like 'cause 'till etc.
But please don't use that ammount, it's sometimes hard to read things that way. ;)

[Aroonxors]

Really.. sometimes I don't understand what people are saying. Occasional use, i think is ok.

[Jordan K]

Lol...

"It's easy to understand..."

is equal to...

"Yo, G. Hit this brotha on tha flIp siDe, dat shizzzlenizzle like butter n bread."

[Akkarin]

I agree with Nate sometimes people are just too lazy to write out the words completely, or even use shorter versions. Also punctuation is sometimes v. bad. It may not seem like such a huge problem but if your reading that horrible shorthand you some sentances are just too hard to understand as you have to guess where the , or . goes.

Maybe we should make a rule that if your posts are obscenly un-intelligible you get a warning?

[Jordan K]

While we're at it.. can we make a rule so that everyone has to have "civilr is oWnz0r" in their sig or they get a warning too??!?! OMG THATS 1337SAUCE!@## :hsdance:

[moose]

I'm not sure about punishing them for it. I just think that we should somehow discuss with the people who have a problem with writing things out.

I'm sure it would be a easy thing to get rid of.

But I suggest putting it in the rules so we don't have to tell every newcomer that comes in.

[Woolie]

Humm, I agree that excesive shorthand and l33t should not be used, but I still don't find it that much of a problem to read. I think this is quite appropriate here ;-)

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