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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[Crothian]

I agree about high post count meaning something. If I didn't have 1600+ posts to my name, many people here would dismiss me as the crank I am. And when someone says something I disagree with, I'm much more likely to challenge them on it if they have a high post count. Why? The reason is pretty simple: I come here to argue with people; I can trust high post count people to argue with me much more reliably than low post count people.

So, even though some high post count people are utterly reviled and disliked, the simple fact that they have name recognition and a bunch of posts to their name makes people far more likely to respond to them, whether they like them or not.

You are so wrong!!

 

[stevelabny]

i couldnt resist responding to this thread long after its demise.

here's a fact of the internet:

There is no such thing as an internet hangout that doesnt have trolls, insults, stupidity, regular-cliquism (?), newbie-bashing and a severe case of elitism.

While EN World suffers from most of these, I'll tell you one of the reasons why its still worth visiting.

Goldilocks size. (just right)

Small boards and chat rooms quickly become total cliques where nothing gets done except the bootlicking of the regulars.

Huge commercial boards tend to have threads get lost in the shuffle, and a slightly higher percentage of stupidity and repetitiveness due to an inordinate number of people new to whichever hobby the board is about or new to the internet.

But EN World for the most part is large, without being too large. While any lurker or part time poster can sort of figure out the regulars and how things work, if you have something interesting to say or a question to ask, you will get some sort of response more often than not.

As for the original posters concern over the spelling correction. Maybe he didnt lurk long enough, but there have been numerous threads about "most annoying typo" or other pet peeves and lose/loose and rogue/rouge alwayswin by a landslide. I thought the way die kluge corrected him was amusing to those have read these threads, but probably sarcastic to those who havent. Personally, as a New Yorker, I always find that many people on the internet (as I don't ever actually travel) have zero tolerance or understanding of sarcasm.
Oh well.

 

[Raging Epistaxis]

(Long insightful and thought-provoking post describing the benefits and shortcomings of the ENWorld community deleted due to my low post count and the apparent fact that no one will read it.)

Odd, I tend to respect an unknown poster more the content of their post and if they have a humorous / informative / eyecatching .sig than I do whether or not they have a high postcount.

Oh, and a quote from PirateCat describing what a sick, twisted, or otherwise abnormal individual that person is doesn't hurt.

Take fusangite's .sig for example - I love the reference to the early oriental explorers discovering America. I knew they visited us a very long time ago, but the quote caught my eye anyway.

At any rate, that is my $0.02 and if I misspelled or committed incorrect grammar, just correct me and I will remove myself from the gene pool immediately.

R E

(At least one of the above statements is not true)

 

[Turjan]

Odd, I tend to respect an unknown poster more the content of their post and if they have a humorous / informative / eyecatching .sig than I do whether or not they have a high postcount.

That's you! You don't count !

That's basically the same everywhere. Non-regulars tend to be ignored. That also happened to me recently. There was a question, and I gave the answer. Then the discussion went on for another two pages, until one of the regulars gave exactly the same answer . That's the internet . Nothing to get worked up about .

As the original poster hasn't shown up again, I suppose that he, as an old rpg.net poster, was glad to get his prejudices about EN World confirmed and went back home . So, nothing to see here anymore.

Except we want to start talking about WoW now .

 

[wingsandsword]

I may not have a huge number of posts under my belt, but I've been around for a while, I lurked for years before registering, and even then I didn't post often until recently. I know I didn't feel very welcome when I first started posting because what I jumped into quickly became a flame war, but I realized that this place is still a lot better than other places on the web and I stuck around.

My post count may be fairly low, but that's because I normally only post when I have something important to say, not because I fell off the turnip truck yesterday. Post count isn't a universal detector of relevancy or skill, just a rough gauge to detect experienced posters who have managed not to get banned and who obviously aren't newbies. The ENWorld boards are downright warm and fuzzy compared to a lot of places out there. Sometimes I get spoiled on it. I may not be a "regular", but I like to think that I'm not ignored, since I've started a few threads, and they get answers when I ask questions or make statement (most of the time, I never did get a reply on why my account was never activated when I purchased a CS account, $12.50 down the toilet).

Oh, and the whole loose/lose, teh/the, and rogue/rouge things set me off too, I've had to bite my tongue to avoid flaming people over those. It's basic English, and if you grew up in the USA, Canada, Australia, UK or any other English speaking nation you really should know this by the time you're playing D&D and online. I'll forgive non-native speakers plenty of mistakes since I know my own Japanese and Spanish aren't exactly perfect (being the two foriegn languages I have at least some understanding of), although I notice that non-native English speakers often have better grammar and spelling than some native speakers I've seen. I give my deep respect to those who have learned English as a second language and have taken the time and effort to learn it better than some who use it as a first language.

 

[Cassiel]

While I feel bad for the guy, if he can't handle someone correcting a simple spelling mistake, he's going to have a hard time finding *any* place where people are constantly nice to you [sic] on the internet. I'm not the only one on here to occasionally remind someone of a spelling gaffe, but if he's [sic] that offended by it, then it was just a matter of time that [sic] someone else was going to offend him. And if he's so self-righteous [sic] to believe that we're going to stop being who *we* are just because we annoyed him, and not even respond to, or read the post [sic] which he started, then I say ENWorld is better off without him, anyway.

What is the purpose of correcting someone's spelling, however? Do you do it because it's the easiest thing to catch someone on? I have two points in signaling the errors in your post above: the first is that in each case I know what you mean to say--there's no ambiguity, so no reason for me to call you on them in a casual messageboard environment (I'd be a prick to do so); the second is that in order to correct someone's spelling, the same is true: to offer someone the correct spelling of a word, you have to know the word they meant to spell in the first place, which means you've already read and understood it. Unless the poster has mangled a word so badly that you actually have no idea what they were trying to say, on what grounds do you correct them?

I'm not defending Kaos--DaveStebbins, I think, has already neatly summarized the gesture of making this thread. In fact I agree with everything you say in your post. It would be oversimplifying the situation, though, to say that it was either Kaos' fault or ENWorlders': Kaos may need to toughen up, but ENWorlders aren't exactly innocent, either. To put it in slightly different terms, when you say "*we*," you fail to account for the fact that Kaos is part of, or should be part of, that "*we*." He's an ENWorlder too, so isolating him as an other makes you look very elitist, which I don't think is what you're after.

 

[der_kluge]

To put it in slightly different terms, when you say "*we*," you fail to account for the fact that Kaos is part of, or should be part of, that "*we*." He's an ENWorlder too, so isolating him as an other makes you look very elitist, which I don't think is what you're after.

I didn't isolate Kaos from ENworld. Kaos did that himself. Very succinctly, I might add.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I didn't isolate Kaos from ENworld. Kaos did that himself. Very succinctly, I might add.

Leave it to a temper tantrum to push a topic as silly as this into page 3. Hilarious!

Kane

 

[Elephant]

What is the purpose of correcting someone's spelling, however?

The (futile) hope that it will prompt a person to improve their use of the language, so their future posts become more coherent and readable.