What really yanks my caboose, is that some people post the same topic twice on the same day[:(!]
Wow i thought this was supposed to be a fun way for people in the hobby to get information. I guess if we followed all the guidelines and forum eqituette [thanks MR Voss did not know how to spell eqituette] that it may very well be a forum on how to or not run a forum instead of just a bunch of people trying to find better ways to run their trains.Maybe their should be a min. reasearch time required for new members who want to make a post. or how about a spell check monitor any takers? I guess what bothers me about all this is there very well may be an adult or kid that has not had a good education and will not get involved in this forum because of topics like this. And since this subject has been hashed over many times are you not doing excatly what you are complaining about. Lets face it fellows there are people who can’t spell so what, people espically new people untill they find there way around will make mistakes double posts whatever. Maybe there ought to be a forum for people who can’t bear misspelled words bad grammer little mistakes you could call it the Perfectly spelled exellent grammer overly researched no newbie forum.You could all pat yourself on the back for all your great eqitutte while the rest of us overlook the minor stuff and talk trains. Terry
I must be from the old school. My spelling and grammar are important to me. I read over what I say here a couple times before I post and I run all my posts through ieSpell, which sits in my tool bar above and is available for free. In my lifetime, it has never been easier to spell correctly, than it is right now. Still, I do misspell and make grammatical mistakes as I am far from perfect. Most the times I can decipher what is being said in this forum. However, when I see a post with spelling and grammar so bad, I have a difficult time understanding what’s being said, I simply move on.
I had three misspelled words in the above paragraph!
It is supposed to be a fun way for people in the hobby to get information. For the people who do read the forum etiquette thread, there’s the last line. [;)]
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Help others. The forum is a community, and works best when people share information.
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Welcome newcomers. Do not chastise them for not reading the forum etiquette. Make them feel welcome in the community.
I couldn’t agree more with you Chris on good forum conduct. However my thoughts are that like was stated earlier, that not all of us have the same education, back grounds, experience in model railroading, etc. I believe what we do have to understand, is that we all share the same interest of model railroading. Thats why we are here. Some of us know some of the members here personally, but for the must part we don’t know who is at the other end at the keyboard, all we see is the results they’ve typed in. I’m not throwing flames at anyone, just trying to express my opinion here. Now for the serious side of this discussion. A lesson on proper spelling. Bubba (>^…^<) sometimes lays in front of my monitor and reads the forum with me. He likes to play possim (opposum) a lot. When ever a picture with that Chessie kitten shows up he perks his ears up and really gets interested. Anyhow, becareful how you spell meow. You see, depending on how many e’s and o’s you put between the m and the w determines what meow means so just be careful of the spelling. Thanks, Ken
To beat the dead horse, I find the personal attacks and put downs that flare up from time to time to be be far worse than any items mentioned here. Fortunately they don’t happen too often.
A couple of thing that can help with tiny fonts. You can make the text bigger on the screen by using a lower resolution, i.e. 800x600 instead of 1024x768. You can also get a larger monitor size and for the same resolution have the text appear larger. You can also do both. I use a 19" lcd monitor which is equivalent to a 20" crt monitor.
Enjoy
Paul
My intent with my original reply was not to chastise anybody, new or otherwise just an honest opinion presented here openly. I may have gone the long way around in presenting my point, which is that instead of rules and guidelines what is really needed is more kindness and understanding. I am not a great speller and I use spell check and read over my replies as carefully as I can, but when I read a reply with such bad spelling or grammer, you guys must read much more than me because very few posts that I have read are so bad that I did not at least have a little idea on what they were about, at least a question or two in reply is usually all that is needed to clarify the topic. The diversity of this forum is it’s greatest attribute,and that includes people that may have little formal education along with those of you who have college degrees and all that are in between. Whether I can read all the words you spelled, understand the context of the grammer that you presented, or agree with it at all, I undoubtedly respect your right to post it here.
FWIW it’s grammar.[:D]
Bob Boudreau
Why aren’t there problems or perceived problems like this over at the Trains Magazine or Trains.com forums?
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All I wanted to bring up, on the CTT forum, which I spend the most of my time we do get alot of “non-sense” and someone asked if I could post the same thing here, so I did.
Regards,
Chris
This is like beating a dead horse.
Why do we have to go over this so many times??
I’m sorry, I’ll withdrawl my posts form the forum, and leave [
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excelent ideas. I think that people should use a little more etiquite on this forum.
Or, in IE, go to Tools->Internet Options, click “Accessibility,” and check the box next to “Ignore font sizes specified on web pages.” Then you can use View->Text Size->Larger/Largest to increase the font size.
Better yet, download Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org) The View->Text Size->Increase/Decrease works without having to change anything, and you can increase or decrease the size as much as you need (without being restricted by the pre-set “largest” size, for example).
Seems somebody always gets defensive and bent out of shape whenever someone else makes some suggestions to make the forum a little bit better.
If you’ll read the original post, Chris uses the term “idea”. These are not mandates, just good, common sense suggestions for improving the dissemination of our ideas on the forum. This has nothing…I repeat, NOTHING (capitalized for emphasis) to do with someone’s education or the lack thereof.
We use rules, guidelines, and etiquette in our lives each and everyday: When we pick up the phone, when we’re driving our cars. No one is going to give you a ticket for misspelling a word. Again, if you read the original post, Chris mentions nothing about spelling, just that you “please try to type all words out as it is a lot easier to others”. It’s merely a suggestion to “try”.
So…put down your weapons and strive to be a little bit better at everything you do.
Tom
One of the things I love about this forum is that there are so many ways to do things and all of us together can share what we know and learn from others. Even though I use Mozilla I had never come across that feature.
Enjoy
Paul
Just lighten up and try to use a little common sense. It’s aids your digestion. This isn’t a matter of life or death, to me anyway.
You guys are Complaining like little GIRLS over nothing big. Do not use caps, or do not post the same type of topic? Who the hell are you? A newspaper editor or a college Professor?!!! Corny! Stop being little girls and let them hang(if you know what I mean). I Just want no Corny topics like this is the big thing IMO. My opinion starts the flame but oh well. This is my opinion and if you do not like it thats cool with me. My opinion is just as important as any of your whiny ones.
Wow!
Nothing like a little diplomacy, eh?
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