Stop writing one big block of message!

[Unit 5302]

The only thing that drives me nuts is when some nubie pops in and posts something like this.

HELP GRINDING!

MY CAR 87 GT HAVE TRANNY MAKING NOISE WHEN GEAR FLOORED ONLY LIKE 2000 MAYBE 300 RPMS ARE FASTER THAN WHEN MAKES NOISE.

ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA'S, I NEED TO FIX QUICK SHOPPING WHEN HAVE TO GO SOON.

I swear to god, the next serious post like that that I see I'm going to flame the hell outta the poster. I see one about once every couple weeks and they start getting all peeved cause nobody's answering them because it's so incoherent that you can't figure out what they want!

[This message has been edited by Unit 5302 (edited 12-31-2000).]

[S Howard]

Posts and replies are regarded as informal and are not intended to be 'pretty'. I wonder sometimes if information given is accurate if spelling--not so much grammar--is overlooked. Attention to detail, enhances the accuracy of facts.

[Snakeman]

you gonna tell me how to wipe my butt too?

I like writing in one big muddle. it makes me feel like i'm really talking to someone when i'm really just typing meaningless drivel to appease the masses and learning about runon sentences and the like. now i really hope that at least somebody has the comon sense to be annoyed and flame the $hit out of me because i probably deserve it after blatantly running on at the mouth (keyboard??) about absolutely nothing, let alone mustang talk, which is why we come here in the first place, really. isn't it? so, i don't have a running mustang now and i feel like being a pita because it is in my nature, you see. most people probably don't remember me being so wordy, but i believe the situation requires some grounding in fact and a basis for complaint, so now that i have completely run out of things to say, let me continue to add that a few more days and i'll be out cruising in my stang and i'm going to find some guy that thinks he's all that and i'm gonna show him just what he's got. nada. zip. nothing. just a shiny piece of crap that nobody will look at again. does that make any sense? no I thought not. I guess i've made my worthless point by now. haven't I? maybe not. you see, the point is that well, i don't have a point, i was really just seeing if i could write a really annoying post that is on-topic in a really twisted sort of way. and if anyone really read all this, get a freakin' life! I got nothing to say until my car is fixed and until then i will just have to try to be funny in my own way. so, to anyone that likes to write in long continuous paragraphs, Joke 'em in the @ss if they can't take a *****! (is it ok to say that here? I've been away at a webboard that believes in totally free speech unlike the conservative musclecar boards that use filters...but thats a whole different bag of worms, eh?) anyway, that wasn't why I came here, i came here to rebel against single sentence paragraphs that I have previously been so inclined to type rapidly and succinctly into the ether which is the internet in all it's glory and etc. now seeming too short to really make a point, so i must run on and on and on. why is that i wonder? at least I can spell pretty good. P-R-E-T-T-Y G-O-O-D. see?! I knew I could!. so now if you have read to this point you really are worse off than the ones that stopped halfway and the ones that just skipped all this crap, I applaud your bravery! you have done precisely what was required of you and have most successfully earned the privelidge of reading the last few little bits which may actually go on quite long, seeming as how i have gone on so long, why stop now when i'm just getting up some steam? well, i do have a life, and no matter how quickly i type, it is still time taken away from my current favorite website where people are attacked with a vengeance for less than this foolishness of 'breaking up paragraphs' to make one guy happy. anyway, hope you have/have had a wonderful holiday season and that you got everything you wanted and more.

man, what a load!


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Rob Wegner
90LX

[90LSC]

Might I suggest you cut back on the coffee? I may be mistaken but you seem a little high strung at the moment.

[Rev]

Coffee? I was thinking more like everclear or something along those lines.

Rev

[Snakeman]

getting closer...

[S Howard]

Forget the thoughts of wisdom, how about we just post pictures??

[90LSC]

And Snakeman, no, I won't tell you how to wipe your butt. I just hope that you do.

[joe4speed]

DAYUM Rob!! You go!

[cometbfx]

Well, now that you asked for opinions......

If you don't like someone's paragraphs, it sounds to me like YOU'RE the one with a problem!

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HeadsUp4ever!

Hell, I'll drink to that!

[This message has been edited by cometbfx (edited 01-01-2001).]

[Rev]

LOL. Another post that just won't die. Do you have a knack for this or what, Gautum? I thought about splitting this up into paragraphs, but decided against it. This post may reach 100 before you do, but keep trying. I like your style.

Rev

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'66 Coupe, 306, 300 HP, C-4, 13.97 e.t., 100.3 mph
1/4 mi.

[95mustanggt]

I think this is all rather stupid. I think this as a mustang board (?), where people come to communicate about mustangs and some other topics not related to mustangs at all (hence the Blue Oval Lounge). Although I do agree with filtering some content to ensure the integrity of the site, whether some one wants to communicate will the CAPS LOCK ON,

Put everything

into little paragraphs,

speak dans la Francais, tup lla eht srettel sdrawkcab (put all the letters backwards), or miss out on punctuation and capital letters, should not matter here. Although one may not receive the response that was hoped for.

If you do not like the way someone posts don't read it. Once you get to "know" the people here an how they post, I think you actually understand them better and know there posting style. I look forward to some peoples posts here, while others, I read only when I have a little extra time or when I have finished reading everything else.

I believe that there are people from other countries here that don't speak or write English as well as others. Are we going to tell them they shouldn't post here because they forgot to put a capital at the beginning of a sentence? I like to see all the proper English, punctuation included, it makes thing way easier to read. I would not however, tell people it annoys me when they don't communicate properly. If the message is too long for you to understand skip the post! I'm sure that their will be lots of other posts to read.

Anyway, I guess this is a Flame.

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White 1995 Mustang GT
Dynomax Cat-Back
Offroad H-pipe
K&N Filters w/o Air Silencer
My 1995 Mustang GT

[jimberg]

The original request was valid. By making something easier to read and understand you are increasing the likelihood that someone will respond to your questions.

Breaking a message up into paragraphs is a great start. As noted already, most of us are capable of sifting through the bad grammar and misspellings, but lack of puncuation and structure can really discourage someone from reading a message. How many of you actually read Snakeman's example?

Gautam didn't suggest any specific size of paragraph, just that messages aren't all one long paragraph. I think it's a good suggestion.

[90LSC]

MORE misused words....

wait vs weight
hear vs here
Just want to throw more fuel......

[Rev]

No lack of divirgent opinions here. I think that's healthy.

Rev