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Hello, various guild members. As you may have guessed, this is a guide I have produced in an effort to keep all posts in this part of Gaia relatively coherent. I'm pleased to say that I haven't noticed any of the raging stupidity that can sometimes be witnessed elsewhere, but there's always room for improvement, eh?

Whether you are a seasoned animator or a newly budding artist, you will always have one thing in common with the others on this forum,

and that is a need to be able to communicate clearly, efficiently, and effectively. There follow a few tips that may help you during your time here. Please ignore the bitterness; I cannot help it, due largely to my British blood. I do not like seeing my language mangled!

Rule 1: I cannot stress this enough! Please, please do not, ever, under any circumstances, substitute "u" for "you". This is barely better than the "l33tsp33k" we all take joy in ridiculing. I am on a shared dialup connection, and I can still find the time to smash my fingers onto the two extra letters of the keyboard that form the actual word "you". If I see you doing this, I will not punish you, but I may randomly deign to rant bitterly at you.

Rule 2: L33tsp33k w1ll g3t j00 b/nn3d, n00b. For those of you who have not studied idiot as a second language, this means, "Do not use l33tsp33k. I will likely ban you and possibly defile the graves of your ancestors." To be fair, however, you may use it sparingly in order to mock those who use it regularly. Everyone likes making fun of Internet stupidity.

Rule 3: Punctuate. For the love of all that is right! It is not very difficult to separate your sentences with periods, or at least streamline a giant run-on post using commas. For example, "Hey I was walking past my neighbours house this one time and I saw his dog and it wouldnt stop barking and chasing me so I ran away what should I do about this" will cause me to vomit a terrifying mixture of rage and organ blood. I need my organ blood, so please remedy such posts thus: "Hey. I was walking past my neighbours' house this one time, and I saw his dog. It wouldn't stop barking and chasing me, so I ran away. What should I do about this?"

Rule 4: Capitalize. The large key marked "Shift" is there for a reason. This rule is ESPECIALLY important regarding the use of "I". When referring to yourself in the first person, it is customary to capitalize. Failure to do so makes me almost as upset as substituting "u" for "you".

Rule 5: TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF, ASSHAT. I will warn you if I see you posting entirely in caps, and if you fail to comply (or provide an acceptable and properly punctuated explanation), I will begin deleting any post you make that I deem devoid of intellectual value, i.e. all of them. If I find that I am unable to delete your posts, possibly because I overestimated my Godlike powers of button-pushing, I might just ban you. So turn your caps lock off.

Rule 6: Virtually all of the above rules can be excepted if you directly ask me for help with your grammar. I am well aware that most grammatical errors are not the product of pure laziness or stupidity, and I am more than willing to be patient with you and offer you pointers on how to improve your posts. Don't hesitate to ask (use this thread)!

And that concludes this instalment of Fiendsworth's Guide to Grammar. I will update it as I see fit. Good evening.

Update: emoticons are meant to add flavour and mood to one's post, not to replace words. Again, I haven't noticed much of this in this particular guild, but just bear it in mind. It's very annoying to see someone post, "I was hit by a car recently and got a concussion! sad " only to be met with, " crying crying crying sad sad sad eek eek eek ". This is like stabbing the car accident victim in the eyes repeatedly while screaming, "I DO NOT RESPECT YOU ENOUGH TO USE ACTUAL WORDS, ALSO MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN AND I USE L33TSP33K WHILE SURFING HORRIBLE JAPANESE ASPHYXIATION FETISH SITES, SHOOT ME IN THE FACE PLEASE!!"

Sorry. I'm just in an irritable mood right now.

Phe, certainly what Fiendsworth stated is the least thing expected. Whatever can't even reach that level doesn't worth to be read.
Taking that as a basis then there is a long and forked way to truly start a roleplay.
I mean, besides the elemental (grammar stare ) there is something called post lenght. Do you know how disgusting is to roleplay with one liners? ngh, its impossible to roleplay without an action, a thread, a plot and description is always decorative and pleasant.
However, what regards staying IC .. hehehe.. quite difficult. Yet, glad to see I have found the only IC Hagiri, Botan, Touya, Hiei, Yusuke, Yukina and Kurama. *squee*
Hmm.. regardless them .. the others should put the name of the character to compel the user attemp to believe a certain character is being played rofl yet, utopic dreams still exist for les rabiosas aparentando ser creibles

This is like the Bible to me. However, the main problem is that people who type like idiots ARE idiots and don't seem to care about using correct grammar. They have a million excuses lined up, "It's just online, no one types correctly online," "It's just for fun, I don't want to use correct typing for fun," "I'm too tired to spend time to type two extra letters," "I'm too stupid to learn how to use a keyboard," etc. I'm sure everyone in the world has the capacity to learn how to type "you," it's the infection of laziness and not caring that causes this decline in the human species. I mean, a monkey could learn that "u" means the person to whom I am talking. But it takes a real genius to learn that "Y-O-U" is the correct spelling.

I dont agree with l337 being stupid, it's fun and funny. Obviously not all the time but it's fun once in awhile.

I love this thread! It's so nice and orderly. If only people would read it, and use its teachings.

Thank you for posting this, although those who truly should read this will ignore it and go about their way causing people to cry and hit their heads against random heavy objects sweatdrop .

Phe, certainly what Fiendsworth stated is the least thing expected. Whatever can't even reach that level doesn't worth to be read.
Taking that as a basis then there is a long and forked way to truly start a roleplay.
I mean, besides the elemental (grammar stare ) there is something called post lenght. Do you know how disgusting is to roleplay with one liners? ngh, its impossible to roleplay without an action, a thread, a plot and description is always decorative and pleasant.
However, what regards staying IC .. hehehe.. quite difficult. Yet, glad to see I have found the only IC Hagiri, Botan, Touya, Hiei, Yusuke, Yukina and Kurama. *squee*
Hmm.. regardless them .. the others should put the name of the character to compel the user attemp to believe a certain character is being played rofl yet, utopic dreams still exist for les rabiosas aparentando ser creibles