(August 7, 2014 at 5:55 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Honestly, I'd prefer it if people took a reasonable effort to spell correctly and use reasonably correct grammar, as would all of the staff, I expect.
This, this and this. I know I occasionally vent about this stuff, but unless it's to do with a serious issue with communication and clarity, it's all meant as good-natured ribbing (for her pleasure, naturally). Hell, I'm not exactly whiter than white when it comes to the odd typo and split infinitive. As long as the meaning of what's being communicated isn't affected, then knock yourself out. Moaning about it is a hobby of mine.
It's when someone does it for the sake of it, or persists wilfully even after they "might of" been picked up on it, that gets up my nose.
(August 7, 2014 at 5:55 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 7, 2014 at 5:37 pm)Diablo Wrote: And mods should act professionally.
Do you realize that when we aren't acting in official capacity, that the staff are just ordinary members and can pretty much act as they wish, just like anyone else here?
Exactly. I was once merely a lowly bluehat before I got the calling and was Modified. Now my hat is green but I'm still basically a bluehat underneath, just with a few extra buttons and the ability to talk about everyone behind their backs.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
