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Alex Linder
June 18th, 2009, 04:30 PM
General rule of life - only depart from customary form with very good reason.
Anything that draws attention to you, besides the content of your posts, is an ego problem on your part. You aren't impressing us, you are irritating us.
Don't quote blocks of material and then add one line at the bottom.
Don't misspell words.
Don't jam paragraphs together so that lines end randomly. This makes it incredibly irritating to the reader. This is the biggest current FORM problem on this forum, and I'm going to start cracking down on it. Steven Clark, you are the quintessential offender here. Do you (and others) not get how annoying it is to read your posts?
We have already dealt with sigtards and avatards. We have dealt with reptards too. My, things are smooth in our increasingly tard-free terrarium.
BryanVP
June 18th, 2009, 06:00 PM
Sometimes... I like to use, more ...'s and ,'s then are necessary... You know, how when you read... something... You will hear a voice, that narrates the text... I do this, so that when people read... What I have posted... They hear Christopher... Walken reading it, to them... I even do it with, your posts... Linder's content, with Walken's voice...
Mark
June 18th, 2009, 06:14 PM
I would also politely ask to post pictures that are not so large, especially nothing that you must scroll down or across to see the entirety.
Adding to that problem is also quoting someone who has done that!
In general if you quote a post with pictures or videos, remove the embedding, unless you have a good reason.
psychologicalshock
June 18th, 2009, 06:25 PM
What's an avatard? How could you possibly abuse that?
Alex Linder
June 18th, 2009, 06:33 PM
Sometimes... I like to use, more ...'s and ,'s then are necessary... You know, how when you read... something... You will hear a voice, that narrates the text... I do this, so that when people read... What I have posted... They hear Christopher... Walken reading it, to them... I even do it with, your posts... Linder's content, with Walken's voice...
I'm not talking about style or innovation. Or new words. No one uses or invents more new words than I do, and it's not because I enjoy it, tho I do, it's because it is necessary to our cause. It carries the meta-message not to be too respectful of established authority, as it might be out to get you. And getting you starts with getting you to use its terms, its frames, its lies.
There's nothing new or clever about adding fifty exclamation points, red type, etc etc.
Alex Linder
June 18th, 2009, 06:35 PM
What's an avatard? How could you possibly abuse that?
Someone who misuses his avatar:
- guns or some other symbol of internet toughness
- something obscene, stupid or disgusting no one wants to look at
- something repetitive and flashy that irritates everyone on second viewing
NOT OFFENDING OTHERS UNLESS THERE BE SPECIFIC REASON TO is how civilized Whites live together. As Wilde said, "A gentleman never insults, except by intention."
Alex Linder
June 18th, 2009, 06:37 PM
I would also politely ask to post pictures that are not so large, especially nothing that you must scroll down or across to see the entirety.
Forced horizontal scrolling is the worst. However, we have it so that even these only hold for the post in question, they do not distort subsequent posts. So that means it's not that big a deal, but yes, people should generally not use gigantic photos that distort the posting frame unless there is no way to avoid it.
Mark
June 18th, 2009, 07:52 PM
Someone who misuses his avatar:
- guns or some other symbol of internet toughness
- something obscene, stupid or disgusting no one wants to look at
- something repetitive and flashy that irritates everyone on second viewing
NOT OFFENDING OTHERS UNLESS THERE BE SPECIFIC REASON TO is how civilized Whites live together. As Wilde said, "A gentleman never insults, except by intention."
I see the obscene on here way too much. I have to look at too many (more than zero) niggers in real life, why do people want to have ugly freaks as an avatar or in their signature??
FarRightGeorgian
June 19th, 2009, 01:24 AM
The following is annoying as hell and is all over this website, I swear it is done to make this place fall apart but using 'a' instead of 'an' is all the rage here. Keep up the good work guys and don't learn to grammer!
Kind Lampshade Maker
June 19th, 2009, 04:46 AM
Why do people feel compelled to quote the next poster, reminding her/him of what they just said, in the next post? More often than not, quoting an entire page from someone who posts the entire linked site, instead of a condensed paragraph, at most.
Why do people feel compelled to post a link to an entire site that they end up quoting, anyway, in its entirety, instead of just keeping the quote short with some attention getter and leaving the rest for the viewer to view from the opened link?
Bassanio
June 19th, 2009, 04:56 AM
Keep up the good work guys and don't learn to grammer!
Finally someone worthy of taking charge of and leading this unruly pack of VNNF illiterates.
Why do people feel compelled to post a link to an entire site that they end up quoting, anyway, in its entirety
For the sake of reference. It's annoying to have someone post an article without a link. If it's an interesting article and I'd like to share it with some lemming that I'm trying to convert, I'd rather point them to the original and "credible" source as opposed to VNN.
Zenos
June 19th, 2009, 08:07 AM
- something repetitive and flashy that irritates everyone on second viewing
I usually hit the "esc" (after the page loads) button when that happens. It stops all animations on a page.
It's especially annoying on news sites with all the ads.
steven clark
June 19th, 2009, 10:11 AM
General rule of life - only depart from customary form with very good reason.
Anything that draws attention to you, besides the content of your posts, is an ego problem on your part. You aren't impressing us, you are irritating us.
Don't quote blocks of material and then add one line at the bottom.
Don't misspell words.
Don't jam paragraphs together so that lines end randomly. This makes it incredibly irritating to the reader. This is the biggest current FORM problem on this forum, and I'm going to start cracking down on it. Steven Clark, you are the quintessential offender here. Do you (and others) not get how annoying it is to read your posts?
We have already dealt with sigtards and avatards. We have dealt with reptards too. My, things are smooth in our increasingly tard-free terrarium.
I'm sorry. I get caught up and go too fast. In the future, I'll be more careful.Thanks for pointing this out.
Mike in Denver
June 19th, 2009, 10:42 AM
Cutting and pasting entire articles from a source should either be forbidden, or at least very rare. I know Linder does this, and since I don't use my whole true name, I don't make suggestions for Linder, but for other posters...
There is one poster here who pastes gigantic articles in their entirety, so often I've been tempted to ask...
"Golly H..., did you cut and paste that whole thing all by yourself?"
A better way is simply to compose your own summary and opinion, and follow that with a link to the article.
Or a poster could enter his own paragraph, then cut and paste an introductory paragraph from the article, and then a link.
Any long post should be your own composition.
Mike
OTPTT
June 19th, 2009, 10:49 AM
Cutting and pasting entire articles from a source should either be forbidden, or at least very rare. I know Linder does this,
I do this too. In case a given article is pulled there is a copy here. It also removes any question as to whether a poster is misquoting or misrepresenting a statement made within an article itself.
wildbill
June 19th, 2009, 10:54 AM
My complaint is these people who don't capitalize at all or maybe only half the time. Another one is the use of "prolly" instead of "probably". If that's not a white trash alert, I don't know what is.
wildbill
June 19th, 2009, 11:15 AM
I do this too. In case a given article is pulled there is a copy here. It also removes any question as to whether a poster is misquoting or misrepresenting a statement made within an article itself.
I agree. Whenever possible, I post the whole article with the link. I've done this for almost fifteen years because its the best way. It saves everybody time and eliminates any confusion. Many times the originating website changes the article link, so to read the whole article one has to start searching around. It pisses me off when people only post part of an article and a link that doesn't work. Forget that.
Alex Linder
June 19th, 2009, 01:13 PM
I'm sorry. I get caught up and go too fast. In the future, I'll be more careful.Thanks for pointing this out.
I appreciate your attitude. The reason I point it out is because many others do it too, and your posts have quality - so don't hide your light under a bushel.
The right attitude, as I was taught by my boss coming out of college, is to think about what is best for the reader. Only I live in my head; others have their own heads, and they might be in a different place. It is very easy to assume something, since one is familiar with one's own thought, that is not at all apparent to outsiders. So think about it from readers' perspective, in order to determine how best to reach them. This rule is valid not only for writing but for life. A large part of being White is respect for what is respectable. Not taking shit, but not giving shit unless there is a reason, and then giving shit hard. It is a particularly good idea for women, but for men too, to study how to make ourselves less offensive to our fellow man. No, you're not just keeping it real, you're being an asshole for no reason save self-exhibition. Mind your own business. If you desire to separate yourself from the throng, do it by your excellence in your endeavor. It's not quite as easy as getting a tattoo or a piercing, but the rewards are greater. Our culture, increasingly niggerized, values flash over meat. That's not the White way. It is your duty as a White to reflect the better in as many of your operations as you can stomach. We all have vices, but we can curb the extremes, and we don't have to take the jewy route of pretending vices are really virtues. Being quiet, being orderly without being docile, being excellent -- even if it means that your convenience store never runs out of drink cups and tops -- these are what it means to Live White. There is no dishonorable labor. Doing your job or your love correctly will bring you more respect than you realize, and self-respect too, which is most important. There is no heaven, the religious folks are lying to you, but you can partake in the eternal both through the passing on of your blood, and the upholding of the White Way through your behavior. If you think right and act right and perceive right - your bearing and behavior will reflect a calmness and a determination, and you will enjoy whatever man can have of peace. Which is not a great deal, because there are a lot of tornadoes out there.
Alex Linder
June 19th, 2009, 01:29 PM
I agree. Whenever possible, I post the whole article with the link. I've done this for almost fifteen years because its the best way. It saves everybody time and eliminates any confusion. Many times the originating website changes the article link, so to read the whole article one has to start searching around. It pisses me off when people only post part of an article and a link that doesn't work. Forget that.
Yes, this is my preferred way. Whole article and link at the bottom. "Trust, but verify," as Reagan said.
Bev
June 19th, 2009, 02:35 PM
Why do people feel compelled to quote the next poster
Guilty as charged. :o
I will try and stop doing it so often; however sometimes it's necessary in the case of the "edit-I-never-said-it" brigade.
wildbill
June 19th, 2009, 03:08 PM
Why do people feel compelled to quote the next poster, reminding her/him of what they just said, in the next post?
If you are referencing something that another person had said, then people need some context for whatever you have to say. Without quoting a few lines its hard to know who or what you're responding to. I'm not saying quote the whole text, just the pertinent text, perhaps just a couple sentences or so - whatever it takes to provide context.
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