Nabeshin#1
ya chat and forums are diff then storys people dont care about spelling ing chats and stuff why you think there are things like lol and rofl and brb you wont find that in a fic now will you but its all over in chats and forums.
Correction: it doesn't matter as much in a informal setting like forums and chatrooms, but it
does matter.
My English is not very good, so I have to carefully and painstakingly decipher every ungrammatical and badly-spelled post that I come across. One or two mistakes aren't too bad, but when the entire post is unreadable, I often don't bother.
After all, the writer is the one who has to make sure his or her writing is legible. Not the reader.