The general tone of the forum/place being posted. Some areas don't care how much netspeak etc you use.
How much authority/ownership you have in the place. Just because you prefer people don't use bright colored fonts, do you have a right to request it? A public park, someone wearing really strong perfume? Can't say anything. Although if you're in a classroom, it'd be less impolite to speak up. So smaller forums vs large ones. ONTD vs a harry potter one with 100 people.
Things like bad grammar, net speak, I don't care about. Especially since I know a lot of people who aren't any good at typing, either from legit reasons (dyslexia, etc) or just not caring enough/enough book learning. As long as I can tell what they're trying to say, that's all that is important. If you can't understand what they're saying, and you are somehow the one who it is addressed to (ie, either a post directed to you, or to the general public. posts that are more directed to someone else, not so much).
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Date: 2008-11-16 01:13 am (UTC)The general tone of the forum/place being posted. Some areas don't care how much netspeak etc you use.
How much authority/ownership you have in the place. Just because you prefer people don't use bright colored fonts, do you have a right to request it? A public park, someone wearing really strong perfume? Can't say anything. Although if you're in a classroom, it'd be less impolite to speak up. So smaller forums vs large ones. ONTD vs a harry potter one with 100 people.
Things like bad grammar, net speak, I don't care about. Especially since I know a lot of people who aren't any good at typing, either from legit reasons (dyslexia, etc) or just not caring enough/enough book learning. As long as I can tell what they're trying to say, that's all that is important. If you can't understand what they're saying, and you are somehow the one who it is addressed to (ie, either a post directed to you, or to the general public. posts that are more directed to someone else, not so much).