[ngreen]

The point of these forums is to offer a place for people to communicate. If you want to communicate with the largest amount of people you will use plain, simple English that is nearly grammer and spelling perfect. Using IM chat is okay in some area such as Chit-Chat but for the general forum it advised against. Not everyone understands all IM text while almost everyone can read English. If you choose to use IM or Slang make a note to it's meaning if it is something not known by many.

Being grammatically sound isn't as important as being sound in your content and how you present that content. I seem to use a lot of .... I don't go sentence to ..... sentence. But I always try to use language people can understand and put in a way that I can convey my thoughts.

As for reputation, negative comments should only be placed on those misusing the forums purposely. Sometime you should choose to PM instead.

As for making them right their reason to make them be more rational in their thoughts, it won't work. I got a negative comment once that just said "No!, you're wrong." If negative comments were given out strictly because you said a imperfect comment I don't think I would stick around here.

So be nice on both sides. Use English (sorry, it's not fair), don't be mean, and stop worrying and start having fun. That's what they are for aren't they.

BTW - I have more than three dots so I support the dots.