August 5th, 2008
Because it's come to my attention that a lot of people from the emailing lists, Gateworld, and other forums don't understand the basic etiquette (rules of politeness) on LJ, here's a brief primer about posting on LJ: five basic, easy things to change.
( Five Things You Oughta Know )
These are the basics - the most basic of basics - of posting in LiveJournal. And everything I've said here goes for commenting as well. Paragraph breaks, Spelling/Grammar/Punctuation, avoiding capslock, avoiding unnecessary exclamations, font formatting - comments should take this to heart, too.
Presentation is important. Politeness is important. Learning the rules is important.
Don't say "I'm just doing this for fun so it doesn't matter if I screw up". It does matter - because you represent your segment fandom when you post about it on LiveJournal. And if you represent a portion of fandom in which I play by being an illiterate, inconsiderate, rude, uncaring poster, then I grow infuriated, and chances are, I will lay the smackdown upon thee.
Close-minded people complain that the world won't meet them where they're at. Open-minded people learn how to grow and change so they can meet the rest of the world.
Which are you?
( Five Things You Oughta Know )
These are the basics - the most basic of basics - of posting in LiveJournal. And everything I've said here goes for commenting as well. Paragraph breaks, Spelling/Grammar/Punctuation, avoiding capslock, avoiding unnecessary exclamations, font formatting - comments should take this to heart, too.
Presentation is important. Politeness is important. Learning the rules is important.
Don't say "I'm just doing this for fun so it doesn't matter if I screw up". It does matter - because you represent your segment fandom when you post about it on LiveJournal. And if you represent a portion of fandom in which I play by being an illiterate, inconsiderate, rude, uncaring poster, then I grow infuriated, and chances are, I will lay the smackdown upon thee.
Close-minded people complain that the world won't meet them where they're at. Open-minded people learn how to grow and change so they can meet the rest of the world.
Which are you?
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