Childish Text-speak

nesf

*shrugs*

I think it depends on the board tbh. On some boards I don't think txt speak is appropiate (take a science board for instance or politics), and should be hit win at least a warning, then a ban etc. On other boards? Yeah it annoys me, but what's the big deal? Just ignore the illiterate ramblings of bored teenagers, it's not worth deciphering really.

Trojan

(Hadn't seen this thread before now)

AH charter has been updated as follows:

Posting in "rtrd"
- Using txtspk n ur psts is cnsdrd been rlly stpd cuz u hv qwert kbd n ur pc so xpct 2 b bnd immditly. Dis iz ur only wrng.

One user has received a 2 week ban as a result of ignoring multiple public and private warnings.

Crash

That ****ing HURTS to read troj.

Chalk

I FIND TXTSPK JUST AS HARD TO READ AS SOMETHING IN ALL CAPS.

just one of them things i guess

Crash

Actually i can read caps grand - i just think of this

DarkPassage

crash_000 wrote:

Actually i can read caps grand - i just think of this

you think of ..... ???
am assuming you think something is gonna get slammed in that big open mouth, but what ?, and why do caps make you think this, therapy perhaps, just a suggestion

Shabadu

^^ handy tip! It does make it more legible for some reason.

katiegordon

I was banned!!!
But please let me back on to afterhours!
Im new to boards and i thought it was just people messing with me trying to get me to stop.I didnt think it had actually been made a bannable offence.
Ill stop now promise!
Pwease
Pwetty pwease!!

Asok

katie that is the first post of yours that I have been able to stand may it not be the last!

katiegordon

See ive changed my ways........
Trojan let me back

Glipmac

Text Speak is ok only if you're texting someone from a mobilebecause you only have limited space for about 100 letters/spaces, but this is not a mobile (sod carrying my P.C around with me)

Trojan

AH (and many boards) are suffering from a seriously bad signal-to-noise ratio. Txtspk is noise.

It's banned on Events, Programming, Rugby and After Hours (spot a pattern?), along with many other boards.

I've reduced Katie's ban to 1 week because she almost apologised in a PM to me.

Stark

It's a pity Victor didn't ban "The Fitz" for posting the thread title "What school u in?". The use of "u" instead of "you" was bad, but the trend for verbs to go the way of vowels is worse. I mean surely "What school are you in?" doesn't take THAT much longer to type.

The General

Sleepy wrote:

Why not just add the most used "txt spk" words to the censor?

So 'txt spk' would display as '*** ***' in any post. It still identifies the poster as a muppet and should help discourage people from using it.

now there's one of the most sensible posts made, good thinking

I second his suggestion

Stark

Now that's one of the most brilliant ideas I've ever heard.

Raphael

Fantastic plan, i thoroughly endorse this product and/or service