Gracious Professionalism > Ungracious Unprofessionalism

[Emily Pease]

Originally Posted by cdr1122334455

Here are a couple of tips that can always help when posting,
-Do you really want to post what you just typed? its OK to delete it or edit it!
-don't take things too seriously, there is a tendency around here to for people to take a couple of remarks too seriously
-Search before creating a new topic, also make sure you search all forums, you may have missed a topic devoted to what you are looking for
-There never is a "best" its always opinion
-Spell Check!
-Try not to go political or religious in these forums, there are other sites for stuff like that
-Respect any Admin/Moderator decision
-keep a sense of humor, watch posting and you

Good list! I would also like to add:

- You don't have to have perfect syntax and grammar, but if you want other posters to take you seriously, it helps to be able to form a coherent sentence. And let's face it, it's not really that hard, is it?
- Use your English skills to find the nicest way to say whatever you want to say. If there isn't a nice way to say something, you probably don't need to say it, at least not on a public forum. For example, disagreeing is fine, but instead of saying, "You're wrong!" you could just as easily say, "I disagree with you because..."
- Easy on the smileys! Please?
- If you're in so much of a rush that you can't type out entire words ("you" instead of "u", etc), you probably don't have time to be browsing an online forum.

[nateoffong]

I'd agree

I don't post much (if you can't tell), but i read alot. Sometimes i want to post and return the fact that they're being a little short tempered there, and it kinda stops me. I'm not going to waste all my time doing that stuff.
It's not nice. End of story

[KenWittlief]

wow! I made the mistake of venturing into a thread a couple days ago on a political subject, and I got absolutely HAMMERED with assualts on my intelligence, comments on my grammer and punctuation (or lack there of)

I was accused of spreading half-truths and lies (with no rebuttal to the actual statements themselves, whatever they were)

and I was repeatedly hit with thinly vailed insults

To put it bluntly, Im appalled to see people on this forum think that insulting someone, name calling, labeling, or criticizing someone elses language, spelling, punctuation... is either appropriate, acceptable, or that this somehow makes your point for you

or that flinging a mulititude of insults and induendos is even better

If you know what someone is saying then they have communicated their message, there is no need for every post to have perfect spelling or grammer

logic and reasoning skills should be required in public schools. If you are in a passionate debate, insulting the other person and criticizing their language skills contributes nothing to your position.