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Reading thru the rules posted by Steet, I found a couple that are too strict.

The rule about all caps is not necessarily true. It does not mean yelling, per se, rather it could mean:
a. pointing out a detail
b. making a point

Another is the unuseful, or in other terms, wasteful info. Nothing is useless, pointless, or of lesser value. Everything is equal, I'd think this site would support equality.


Third, SMS is fine, as long as its a popular term, like LOL or IDK which explained mean laugh out loud and i dont know. Texting is becoming ever so popular these days, so SMS should be as welcome on this site as laughing.
Everything else I agree with.

Im curious to hear feedback on the matter.

Oh, and one more, asking to be a moderator doesnt hurt anyone the more the marrier.

1. While that can be true, he's talking about when a whole post is in caps... It doesn't mean that you can't use them lightly within a paragraph to prove your point.

2. What are you talking about? If something is pointless its pointless. I don't see what is such a big deal about this. It's like your saying there is nothing wrong with spam.


3. Again, there are certain SMS terms that can be used on here. There is a list somewhere around here of what is and isn't allowed. This is the internet, not a cellphone network. We have full blown keyboards that enable us to write English or any other language correctly. Just because texting is SO popular these days it doesn't mean that it's the new English. I personally find SMS annoying when people use it, and not everyone understands SMS language. In reality it's causing my own generation to become lazy with their writing, sadly. There is no excuse to as of why someone can't fully and correctly write out a sentence or paragraph. I frankly don't understand why it's considered "cool" to write with SMS language. All it does is make a person look highly unintelligent... Because of this Steet doesn't want to promote this kind of behavior.
EDIT: Here is that list. list-of-sms-terms-t21716.html

4. Asking to be a mod here has been the rule from day one on this site. You can't just go and pick a random person to become a mod. One must be moderator material. You don't want someone that has no idea what they're doing running around with powers that they can't use responsibly. Steet wants a responsible person who he can trust to be a moderator on his sites. Though now it's mainly the admins (Like myself.) who chooses the staff. It's no easy task, Baltoluv. I went through trial and error with LATTS. The more the merrier doesn't always mean better. I can use LATTS as an example. There were waaay too many mods on there when the site first opened, and they were even complaining about it after a time, so me and Sardonyx decided that there would be 1-2 for each section and weeded out the extra mods. Guess what? Our staff might be small but things get done. Then again LATTS isn't overly active, so you don't need a whole bunch of mods.

My opinion? The rules aren't that strict...Every site has rules and these happen to be the rules here. If you don't like them so be it. No one said you had to like them.

(EDIT:// Gah! Mighty beat me to it, lol)

Doing THIS is fine. DOING THIS IS NOT FINE!

lol - this is fine to say...
lol - dis is not fine 2 say...

The rules are not that strict, SMS like lol, brb, g2g, bbs, bbl, omg, asap, ftw, fff etcetera are all accepted here.

To be honest...the rules aren't harsh, they are simple (very easy to pick up) Now- if you go on other sites, that allow more stuff like politicts ect, they crack down on the rules. This site is taking baby steps compared to them.

No, you don't understand. The rules are meant as a guide on how you should behave. They are there to prevent ABUSIVE uses.


As mentioned previously, this was only for people who constantly talk with caps in all their messages. You will notice I DO use caps, but ONLY when it's to give the focus. (and that's how you should use them)

Same thing for SMS. Of course saying "LOL" or "IMO" is allowed! But it becomes a problem when you use SMS for EVERY word. For example : "Hi evry1 I luv DIS" => BAD

Something important though : that list of SMS terms has been REMOVED, I had never agreed with that list in the first place as no one should have to go through such lists to know what's allowed and what's not...The general rule is that you shouldn't use too much SMS, one or two by sentence is OK. Just don't ABUSE.


Oh, believe me, I see more useless messages posted every day on the site that I can count! See the example...

All I can say is if somethings found useless, then creativity is too and this site is built around creativity. You may want to think twice before saying "this topic is useless" as a general suggestion to everyone.