Post by Sur Realis on Apr 22, 2008 17:52:29 GMT -6
Yeah, 'cause I haven't seen anything in the nearly five years since I started playing THG.
And what's so bad about that quote aside from the bypass? I read it just fine. If you can't understand that u = you, 4 = for, etc., then maybe the person typing in netspeak isn't the unintelligent one.
When you want to force a bunch of people to either conform to your standards or be punished over something so trivial as how they type, I'd say so. Additionally, I'd say that creating and enforcing such a rule isn't exactly full of "common sense".
Should I go and cry?
Yes.
Has only furthered my deicision to quit HG. Basically what I was JUST arguing with Wisdom about; I'm not talking about people that use net/chatspeak, and I'm fairly damned sure Ku, LP, Nate, et cetera are not either.
Netspeak/Chatspeak generally has a set of standards. The 'slang' is -global-. 'WTF' does not change going from BYOND to WoW. If you say 'GTFO' on a chatroom, it is the same thing on forums.
However, there are WAVES of people that don't even try to talk in a standard. Look at LP's first post; I have seriously seen people typing exactly like that.
Of course, it doesn't matter, cause I'm unlikely to get back on the game. If common sense were not enforced in the slightest on HG I'd have but 5 people ignored - Nate, Kija, Ku, LP, Kyou. And if you haven't noticed, people's typing is getting -worse-. Before long they are going to have to invent mini-letters to create acronyms for people that don't want to type the pronoun, "I". 95% of the people that don't try to type at all bring around trouble in some form anyway.
Edit
Kumog says:
Seriously, I'd say edit your post asking if, since Kain and Soren like Netspeak so much, would they, if asked, turn every single NPC text, game text, and storyline into netspeak?
Here's what we are talking about, as an example:
1s ^on a 12AM drery, wile I :? weak/wery
ovr lots cant+curos volum frgotn lor
wile I nodd nerly napn sudnly came a rapn
as of sum1 sofly tapn tapn at my chambr dr
