Is it me, or are awfully written posts increasing?

[Guest]

idk, i hasn’t seeing what ur sayun

[pm128]

5 hours ago, Caroline said:

posts and comments

 

that are basically

 

 

 

separate sentences

with 

 

odd spacing and format 

as if they were copied and pasted from multiple websites or

 

 

a word document

You forgot to write it in comic sans

[TempestCatto]

9 hours ago, piratemonkey said:

Depending it might be beneficial especially with new users. They will probably not quote you when responding so then you don't see it. Also when responding to specific parts of a question it's fine. Besides that it's annoying especially with pictures or videos on op's post

If they don't quote me then, they don't quote me? Not sure where you're going with that.

 

Sniping posts isn't just strait removing all the content from the quote, it's sniping all the non related stuff but keeping the part(s) you're responding to (but one should still snip images and videos).

[Commodus]

I'm most annoyed by people who capitalize informal nouns. It's like reading an 18th century letter without the articulation.

 

(And yes, this has been happening on the internet for decades)

[pythonmegapixel]

4 minutes ago, Commodus said:

I'm most annoyed by people who capitalize informal nouns. It's like reading an 18th century letter without the articulation.

 

(And yes, this has been happening on the internet for decades)

To be fair, that is standard grammar in German, and so is more understandable.

 

What is not understandable is Capitalising Every Word Regardless Of Whether It Is A Noun Or Not AND Also THrowing In Some SPUrious Captials In the MidDLE Of WORDS.

[TetraSky]

52 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

What is not understandable is Capitalising Every Word Regardless Of Whether It Is A Noun Or Not AND Also THrowing In Some SPUrious Captials In the MidDLE Of WORDS.

wHaT iS Not UNDErStandaBle is CaPItAlisiNG EvErY wOrD rEGARDlEss OF WHEtHeR it iS a NoUn oR NOt AND alSO ThroWiNg In SOme spuRious CAPtiaLs in The miDDLE Of WoRdS.

 

 

This is the only time where randomly capitalizing letters in words is acceptable.

[Commodus]

2 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

To be fair, that is standard grammar in German, and so is more understandable.

 

What is not understandable is Capitalising Every Word Regardless Of Whether It Is A Noun Or Not AND Also THrowing In Some SPUrious Captials In the MidDLE Of WORDS.

True, although I've also seen Americans and others capitalize informal nouns... that's not so understandable!

 

I'll definitely agree that the purely arbitrary capitalization is worse. It's like they're so unsure of how to use capitals that they capitalize everything "just in case."

[Praesi]

Too many Kids with uncontrolled Internet Access. A Problem we have to live with.

[minibois]

I do not like the "you're new here, you don't know how bad it really is, etc." things

 

But I do have to use that excuse here.

These sort of posts have been the standard since forever, as far as I can remember.

 

The actual shitposts have reduced in quality though, whereas in the past they were funny; now they are just shitty memes (or maybe I just don't enjoy then as much).

[Lord Vile]

A lot of the quoting issues are probably from mobile where things are an arse 

[Sarra]

I just bought a book off Amazon for my Kindle, and it has almost no punctuation, the grammar is almost non-existent, there are spelling mistakes reasonably frequently, and worst of all, the writing itself is only 5th grade level or so.

 

Sadly, the internet is doing a nasty number on written English.