i need help from people all around the world please.

[karen]

Hank, how nice of you!

[mCowboy]

You guys are a bit too bitter.
She gave her university email address, hardly can she be a spammer.
http://www.jcu.edu.au/

but she could be stalking and spamming Jeremy with these photos... you never know about these things.

[littlefrank]

'Just an aside, littlefrank, but do you realize that there is a handy "quote" button that makes quoting people easy?'


Yes.

[Jukka Aho]

Just an aside, littlefrank, but do you realize that there is a handy "quote" button that makes quoting people easy?

Yes.

Then why not use it? Now other people will need to fix your quotes for you, as I just did in the above, in order not to misrepresent who said what.

[mCowboy]

Just an aside, littlefrank, but do you realize that there is a handy "quote" button that makes quoting people easy?

Yes.

Then why not use it? Now other people will need to fix your quotes for you, as I just did in the above, in order not to misrepresent who said what.

because that would be conformist

[littlefrank]

'Just an aside, littlefrank, but do you realize that there is a handy "quote" button that makes quoting people easy?'

'Yes'

'Then why not use it?'

'because that would be conformist'

Yes

[Rob A.]

Just an aside, littlefrank, but do you realize that there is a handy "quote" button that makes quoting people easy?

Yes.

Then why not use it? Now other people will need to fix your quotes for you, as I just did in the above, in order not to misrepresent who said what.

Our littlefrank thinks "outside of the box" ...I think we have to tolerate each other's differences. ...so it's OK with me. I've gotten used to it now and it does make one focus and concentrate a little more when reading his posts...

[Mif]

Thanks for the lovely window one:) Meh, ive given up trying to convince u guys:P. he is real, we've been together for five long years, if u were a good stalker u probably would have found a myspace or something by now lol
Cara

[easily-lost]

How can you talk to strangers online at 2am instead of sleeping in bed with your lover? Isn't it a bit weird?

[Hank W.]

Ah, you know those Australians, can't sleep well upside down with the blood packing into the head

[Mif]

How can you talk to strangers online at 2am instead of sleeping in bed with your lover? Isn't it a bit weird?

When i posted that message, it was 10pm lol.. no where near 2am

[amberpatomo]

Don't worry about these guys! They are just feeling sad that no woman is doing something like that for them...

Because I am sure they are just so busy hanging out with thier girl that they can't possibly have time to chat all day...

Come on guys let her be mooshy!

I will email you my picture. I don't know how to post one.

[Mif]

hey, thank you so much, your pic is awesome! i really appreciate it:)
Cara

[Jukka Aho]

:lol: :lol: Our littlefrank thinks "outside of the box" ...I think we have to tolerate each other's differences.

Actually, we don’t, if we’re The Administrator of a Discussion System. He who pays the bills makes the rules. :) [1]

Some discussion systems (or rather, their administrators) are known to actively discourage sloppy quoting practices and other forms of bad writing. This would include, for instance, long, monolithic messages without any paragraph breaks in them, or messages composed solely of lower-case letters. Or quoting the previous message without trimming down the quotes, or top-posting, or employing unconventional “personal” ways for marking up the quotes, etc.

Typically, a “non-conforming” poster always has a reason for behaving the way he does: for example, it is a manifestation of his artistic soul, or individuality. The problem is that the other users may not see this greatness in all its artistic glory; they may just see a guy who is a bit lost and does not quite know how to use the discussion system. In systems which encourage following a good messaging style, a particularly stubborn “non-conformist” may quickly find themselves without a permission to post any new messages at all... :)

But all that should go without saying. Avoiding unnecessary distractions, such as non-standard markup, is just common courtesy towards the readers. There may be dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people reading your posts. Whatever little time and effort you need to put in making your own posts neat and readable is surely much less than the collective effort of the readers who need to spend their time trying to figure out a badly written post, or reformatting it on your behalf when they’re replying to it. (And one is writing these messages for the other people to read – not only to oneself, I would hope.)

In the end, it’s not really about the technicalities or “conformism” at all, but about the general attitude and philosophy as regards to communicating with the others... in the lines of “Was sich überhaupt sagen lässt, lässt sich klar sagen; und wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.” :)

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[1] No, I’m not one on this board... but I’ve been one in a couple of other places, and I’m still running a telnet-accessible “old-school” BBS system on my own.

[Mif]

these are some of the pics i've received so far:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21920687@N03/