Close your freaking brackets ok!!! and other internet annoyances

[gremcint]

I'm a programmer, I know people are lazy on the internet but close your brackets. I mean it, stop depriving the opening bracket of being near it's brother.


Stop saying you agree with someone by just writing: this.

teh doesn't even need an explanation of it's stupid.

also oh my god = 9 characters
oh em gee = 9 characters

it doesn't save you any space.
I have nothing against common abbreviations but if you're going to use them then use them or type the actual phrase.

[the_std]

I'm a programmer, I know people are lazy on the internet but close your brackets. I mean it, stop depriving the opening bracket of being near it's brother.

I agree so hard with this. Especially on forums and such. Look, you can edit any post you make, you can see that your quote didn't work cause you forgot a piece of the [/QUOTE] tag, or the [/I] tag, it looks stupid if you don't fix it, why don't you fix it? Grr!

[Lace Neil Singer]

What's worse are people who spell badly on purpose and use constant chatspeak. There is not a character limit on the internet, so there's really no point in typing like a plonker.

[gremcint]

Another thing I hate: people not posting normally. Yes you're special you can make your post a different colour or font just too be different. Heaven forbid you want me to read your post.

Sometimes it isn't too bad, Idrinkarum posts in pink and for the most part it's pretty legible. However the person who posted in giant red letters made my eyes hurt and then there are those who post in a smaller font or lighter colours. not everyone sees as well as you, not everything uses the same forum theme you do not everyone has the same monitor as you. The default settings work really well and I promise there will be no pain from not making your post tiny.

My major internet pet peeze: "there I fixed it for you" posts. example: while writing about ms works write "Microsoft Works Sucks" and then someone quotes that and makes it look like this:

Microsoft Sucks
There I fixed it for you

no one has done this to me yet but when someone does I will simply post: no you did not fix it, I said exactly what I meant to say, stop trying to put words in my mouth.

However editted for my amusement posts are different, (different intent).

[Pedersen]

Sometimes it isn't too bad, Idrinkarum posts in pink and for the most part it's pretty legible.

PM me if you use FireFox or Opera. I can help fix this. I wrote a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox that sets all text black, which makes those posts much more legible. I also modified it to work as an Opera user script, so that an Opera user I know who reads this site could abolish the pink.

Makes things much more bearable. I've almost forgotten that it happens at all.

[gremcint]

It's not common enough to be a big problem really, but I figured I'd add it to the list.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I tend to save the multicoloured text for my signature; well, it's pretty obvious that I do. XD I like them to match and cuz no signature images are allowed on this forum, instead I use coloured text to match to the avatar.

Something that bugs me about text signatures is if someone posts a quote, but doesn't attribute it. Such as quoting another member, or quoting a celebrity, and not posting who said it. My signature at the moment is something I said about the character in my avatar, so I don't need to attribute it, but my last quote was something Broomjockey said, so I made sure that I tagged it as such.