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Guy:Incognito · 2006-01-03 00:58:14

I'm sure most people here who play hl2 have some acros this forum http://forum.facepunchstudios.com/index.php .Anyway they have a system called smartness which i reckon is a good idea. This is the run down of it Smartness There's a lot of confusion about the smartness system. People are dumb and they don't know why. Here…

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#32 03-01-2006 11:45pm
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Exclude The Cuckoo's Nest, in the same way as post count is excluded there also.

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#33 04-01-2006 3:40am
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Preferably restricted to only some forums (Where the situation is bad. Ahem.) & English (Obviously) - otherwise an autocorrect/spellcheck function in it's place might be a nicer way of doing it..

"Not using proper apostrophes" - I strongly doubt whether that can be enforced (Without adding a lot of overhead checking..)

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#34 04-01-2006 5:06am
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Can we get this? Please please please!!

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#35 04-01-2006 5:08am
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*looks above*

Add multiple exclamation or questions marks to the - points list!

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#36 04-01-2006 5:10am
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*looks above again*

I think I might have been being a little sarcastic.

Ah well, you had to be there

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#37 04-01-2006 5:26am
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It reminded me,that's all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!

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#38 04-01-2006 5:49am
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Ah yeah no problem.

So, looks all positive so far...

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#39 04-01-2006 9:29am
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I Agree With Him!

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#40 04-01-2006 2:54pm
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aphex&#8482 wrote:

A better idea is to permanently ban anybody who uses there instead of they're.

and should of instead of should have

as in: "You should of done that"

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#41 04-01-2006 3:12pm
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King Raam wrote:

and should of instead of should have

as in: "You should of done that"

And people who don't begin sentences with capitals and end them with full stops. Oh, and possibly people who begin sentences with 'and'; oops.

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#42 04-01-2006 3:14pm
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rsynnott wrote:

And people who don't begin sentences with capitals and end them with full stops. Oh, and possibly people who begin sentences with 'and'; oops.

Touché!

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#43 06-01-2006 8:45pm
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King Raam wrote:

Touché!

Threeché!

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#44 09-01-2006 6:47pm
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what's wrong with typing all in lower case? i only find typing everything in uppercase annoying. the rest, i agree with.

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#45 09-01-2006 6:53pm
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Not too bothered bout it really. But I would disagree with banning acronyms like lol and wtf etc.

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#46 09-01-2006 9:11pm
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#47 09-01-2006 11:44pm
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smoke.me.a.kipper wrote:

what's wrong with typing all in lower case?

Correct Case:
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.

Lowercase:
I helped my uncle jack off a horse

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#48 10-01-2006 12:05am
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WizZard wrote:

Correct Case:
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.

Lowercase:
I helped my uncle jack off a horse

Ugh - your Uncle Jack's off Horses?. Is that where Rebecca Loos got her inspiration?.

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#49 10-01-2006 12:25am
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On a related note - grammatical woes:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=259868

For me, text speak no longer has a place of honour in society, what with predictive text, auto punctuation and inexpensive texts ... it takes as long to compose those hieroglyphic messages as it does the proper thing. And with free multi-GB email accounts, there's no justification for using it in emails either.

Whoah, that was a tad vitriolic. Time to take a Lipitor.

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#50 10-01-2006 12:40am
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Blackjack wrote:

your Uncle Jack's off Horses?

No, he's not.

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#51 10-01-2006 2:15am
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Im all for this.

As long as TBH is rebanned.

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#52 10-01-2006 2:22am
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WizZard wrote:

Correct Case:

Lowercase:
I helped my uncle jack off a horse

jack-off

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#53 10-01-2006 2:29am
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Why not imprison them and the grammar police in the English forum for a while? The grammar police might lighten the fúck up and the text speak kids might cop the fúck on and both may actually mature a bit and realise there is a real world that some day they can function in.

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