DA,

As the originator of this thread, I can wholeheartedly say that the intent was NOT to attack phisig chickade. While most people might dispute that citing my obviously snarky behavior online, I say this.

If I wanted to lash out with personal attacks I would have done so by hijacking BabyP's "Colors" thread -- where the Toggle issue first came up. :rolleyes:

Sure, you may have received PMs from disgruntled GCers asking to close the thread, but many others didn't even make a connection between the user in question and the discussion at hand until she decided to get her panties in a twist (forgive me because I can't find better words to describe it) bitch me out and enlist the aid of her sisters just because I wanted to have a discussion about Toggle.

People didn't even know about "Toggle" until this thread and thanks to Kelly's insight on |33+, many of us know more about that too.

Again, you can believe my intent was genuine and at the same time you don't have to. It's up to you. And you can do whatever you want since you're the mod :rolleyes: , but I can honestly say that closing this thread would be exercising poor judgement, something I am surprised to see considering your reputation as an honest and level headed mod.

There are more controversial and heated threads in CC that deserve your attention. Don't waste your time on this one just because people can't seem to accept the fact that I wanted to discuss this.

But thanks for leaving the thread open for now, at least.

I agree 100%

I read through this thread earlier and agree that while it may have started out innocently, it isn't hard to find the not so subtle attacks. I have seen a few complaints about this thread as well and don't that it shouldn't be closed but a lot of the meanness on here lately has been pretty childish.

Back to the topic...

I do find toggle very annoying and hard to read. Especially when you have people typing full paragraphs in toggle. (The u_make_lj_suck community on LJ has loads of examples of this)

I also don't like people using Princespeak...ie "How R U 2-day?" But then again I am very anal about spelling and grammar. :)

I just learned about Princespeak. At first I was like, HTF does Prince tie in to anything? It took me a while to figure it out, but I finally did.

It should be a crime to use Princespeak unless you're the high and mighty purple one himself.

its all annoying- toggle, leet, princespeak- all of it-
i abbreviate here and there, have my occassional typos and poor grammar and i sure as hell dont caps or use apostrophes but who really cares at least you can read what i type!

Thank you very much. As long as it stays on topic, the thread is safe. I've only had to delete two or three threads in my history as a moderator -- and I don't like it. But if I believe it violates the terms or spirit of the TOS, there's little choice.

It is called mockery...I can't say the same thing about those who seriously use togglecase and weird spellings.

Haha!

That's even worse...

You should shoot your mother!




Don't take that literally folks. :rolleyes: I know how some of you boneheads think.

Exactly...anyone who's ever lived/visited Missouri for some time knows that there are actually those random people who do say Missourah. It drives me NUTS though...one of my sociology professors used to say it and it was the most annoying thing ever. :rolleyes:

Okay...I'm clueless on this one. How DOES Prince tie into it? lol.

I thought that was part of IM-speak.

For me, I go by two different codes:
For IM, message boards, LJ, blogs I may use some of the "words" deemed annoying. Particularly I like "prolly". (sometimes I forget and actually say it out loud)

However, for websites and written messages of other kinds (letters, posters, signs), I expect to see all the rules of grammar and spelling in effect. I have been known to walk out of a store and never return because they can't spell a simple word correctly on one of their signs.

So for me, I guess it's a difference of "recreational" or not...things I do for fun I allow my self to make typos like crazy and shorten words, etc
But anything else is the usual.

As for Kelly's sig - I can read a few words of it, but still can't make it all out - still trying tho (yeah, another word I shorten often)

Trying to read togglecase makes me nauseous. It's also irritating and a waste of time, to both the person typing it and the person (attempting) to read it. I didn't think anyone over the age of about 14 did that. I refuse to IM with my brother (who's 14) because of all the togglecase and princespeak and other abbreviations. I'm trying desperately to teach the kid some basic grammatical rules, but grammar evidently isn't cool. :rolleyes:

Remember his old song that baldy Sinead covered?

Nothing Compares 2 U!

:rolleyes:

That's bad!