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[KaosDevice]

You know what, and I hope this doesn't sound like sour grapes or whatever. But I am just not going to bother here any more. I lurked for a bit (about two months) and saw a lot of people talking about some things I was interested in so I hopped in and offered my .02$, I was corrected for my spelling.

Yeah, fine whatever. I'm a published game writer just like some of you, (well most of you to hear it), just a different genre..get over it. Anyway, I'm disappointed, I thought I could join in the community of discussion with the rest of the crowd and have my voice echo as loudly as the rest.

Nah,evidentally, not so much.

 

[RandomPrecision]

You've only had 59 posts. I've been here for a few days, and in a few more, I'll challenge that number. You've been here since September.

Just speak out more, and you'll get more responses. It's a numbers game. The more that goes in, the more that comes out.

 

[Alzrius]

You know what, and I hope this doesn't sound like sour grapes or whatever. But I am just not going to bother here any more. I lurked for a bit (about two months) and saw a lot of people talking about some things I was interested in so I hopped in and offered my .02$, I was corrected for my spelling.

Yeah, fine whatever. I'm a published game writer just like some of you, (well most of you to hear it), just a different genre..get over it. Anyway, I'm disappointed, I thought I could join in the community of discussion with the rest of the crowd and have my voice echo as loudly as the rest.

Nah,evidentally, not so much.

Actually, in your last sentence there, the correct spelling is "evidently".

Seriously though, you sound a bit too broken up about a minor thing. Who cares if someone corrected your spelling once? It's not that big a deal, and without knowing the post in question, I highly doubt it was personal or meant to put you down.

People's voices echo differently everytime they post. Sometimes a post is ignored. Sometimes it gets quoted twenty times in a thread. Sometimes it gets reported to the moderators. And sometimes someone feels the need to point out a misspelled word. Either way, you move on afterwards.

The only way your voice is silenced here is to stop speaking.

 

[Goblyn]

Well, sorry to lose you.

I'm sad to hear that you've been soured on ENWorld.

Before I say any more, know that I'm not making fun or being sarcastic in any way. I hope you can find a forum that you find useful and enjoyable to visit. I admit that many of us(me included) at ENWorld can be quite elitist at times, but I hope you can find enough merit in this forum to at least visit once in a while, whether or not you reply.

possibly goodbye.

Goblyn

 

[Lord Pendragon]

KaosDevice, I'm sorry that you had a bad experience in a thread or two. I hate to say it, though, but if you think this board is unfriendly...well, you're going to have a devil of a time on the rest of the Internet. This is one of the most courteous, polite, friendly boards I've ever seen.

Nothing goes right for anyone all the time. I started a thread a month or so back asking for music advice or some kind soul to do a Search for me for older threads on the same subject. How many replies did I get? Big goose egg, even after a couple self-bumps. That doesn't mean that everyone is against me, or nobody cares or what-not. The thread just didn't grab anyone, and that was it.

Sometimes people don't reply to your comments. It happens.

I'd suggest that you keep joining in on threads that interest you, but you seem pretty miffed, and I'm not going to disrespect that. Good luck to you on your journey. Perhaps someday you'll come back and give ENWorld another chance. If not, I do hope you find another board as informative, interesting, and courteous as I've always found this one.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Lol, let it slide, man. I've bben flamed more times than I can count. I'm a pretty vocal person and I tend to say what I think. When you criticize something that people love they tend to react harshly. I have been burned out on 3e for a while now and when I make a claim to that effect, someone inevitably says bad things about my mother. And you're leaving because of a comment on your spelling? Stick around. Whenever you gather 10,000 people together in a medium where people can say anything without the threatof getting their teeth smashed in, people tend to be a bit more crass than in real life. Let it slide. I think you'll find most folks here are rather nice.


Oh, and by the way, the 3.5 ranger is STILL a piece of crap.

 

[hong]

I'm confused. Where's the bit about World of Warcraft?

 

[Crothian]

You know what, and I hope this doesn't sound like sour grapes or whatever. But I am just not going to bother here any more. I lurked for a bit (about two months) and saw a lot of people talking about some things I was interested in so I hopped in and offered my .02$, I was corrected for my spelling.

You should see them ripe into my spelling and grammar at times, it can be brutle.

 

[Goblyn]

Lol, let it slide, man. I've bben flamed more times than I can count. I'm a pretty vocal person and I tend to say what I think. When you criticize something that people love they tend to react harshly. I have been burned out on 3e for a while now and when I make a claim to that effect, someone inevitably says bad things about my mother.

Your mother!

There are those who get bent out of shape someone types "Wrold of Warcarft", I guess.

You should see them ripe into my spelling and grammar at times, it can be brutle.

No kiding, Crothain. Every typo you maek makes me hate you that much more.

Disclaimer: This entire post was made not only tongue-in-cheek, but also while drunk. If I stopped to correct all my own spelling errors, it wouldn't come up until wednesday.

 

[jayaint]

Kaos,

One of the first threads I ever joined in on became a very heated flame war, with spelling corrections, sarcastic entendres, and foul moods between myself and another ENworlder. Honestly, I don't even remember who it was... it could be someone I now PbP with in Living ENworld, or in the Gaming forum. It could be the person who backed up one of my crazy interpretations of the monk rules that I post in the D&D Rules forum.

But at the time, I felt just like you did when you typed that first post of this thread. And I did go away for awhile. But when I needed a question answered, or felt the need to ask a question about the new Mystic Theurge build I was working on... EN is the place I came back to. Becuase, for all the grammar and spelling nazis, and even all the rules lawyers who continue to argue your point for a page and a half after you've stopped reading, this is a community of people who care about the same things that I do.

I've never played W.o.W. or any other d20 game, except for an ill-fated high school-ish excursion into Vampire: the Masquerade. But I don't talk down to the people who do, and if I can help them in some way, I try to do so to the best of my ability.

Here's hoping that EN hasn't lost you forever. We need all the voices we can get.

-jay