This goes for both online and voice mail messages...

I keep reading new threads on another forum where one paragraph is a page long, and the subject title is Help.

Sheesh get to the point already. I hang up on long voice mails without listening to them, and I pass right over these posts as well. Give me a clue up front to what the problem is, and perhaps I can wade through the long story to understand and maybe have a tip or so.

<sigh>

This goes for both online and voice mail messages...

I keep reading new threads on another forum where one paragraph is a page long, and the subject title is Help.

Sheesh get to the point already. I hang up on long voice mails without listening to them, and I pass right over these posts as well. Give me a clue up front to what the problem is, and perhaps I can wade through the long story to understand and maybe have a tip or so.

<sigh>

What bugs me is when there isn't a single punctuation mark anywhere in the paragraph. If a single paragraph is more than, say, three or four inches long on my screen and lacks punctuation, I save my head and eyes and exit the page.

What bugs me is when there isn't a single punctuation mark anywhere in the paragraph. If a single paragraph is more than, say, three or four inches long on my screen and lacks punctuation, I save my head and eyes and exit the page.

I guess it could be worse and we'd have to listen to them in person.

I guess it could be worse and we'd have to listen to them in person.

That gives me a headache just thinking about it.

I made a post about this awhile back and it got shut down. I call them

walls of text.

People should realize that nobody is going to read something that takes up the entire screen with no breaks anywhere. It's just too hard to read.

I come here to relax, inform, become more informed, and not struggle to read and get a headache!

I've been wondering why some posts look like titles to a book With Every Single Word Capitalized. I'm guessing there's some setting that makes it that way, other than the person making the effort to shift at the beginning of each word. I find that particularly hard to read.

Oh, I feel the pain. I am a moderator on a gaming board and I have to deal with that stuff all the time. It is not so bad now, sadly I am getting used to it, because as a moderator I "have" to read every word, every post.

What gets me is sense/since/, there/their, to/too. That isn't all but that is part of it. I personally get there and their mixed up, but I can generally catch it before I hit submit but when people use trader instead of traitor and stuff like that. I want to pull my hair out. How hard is it to type "Oh really" but nooooo orly is the way they do it. IDK ... I don't know, not hard really. I HATE shortened words. Granted when I text my hubby I will on occasion shorten a word or two. But the WHOLE TEXT? I get that from a girlfriend of mine, I want to smack her when I see her for that.

Wow, I have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to message boards ... I will stop now.

One more thing though, caps, punctuation, and spelling ... all in one post. Someone please shoot me now. I have people on my gaming board that does that all at once. All caps, no punctuation, and rotten spelling. I feel like I have lost IQ points from hades over that.

The other thing I hate is when people ramble with no direction like I just did. I think I need more coffee ....

When people type online (in a chat window, or on a forum) as if they were texting with their phone, it drives me up the wall. I work in the software industry, so we actually do conferences over online chat clients, and it seems incredibly unprofessional to me for someone to type "u" instead of "you" etc. But I hate it just as much when my friends do it, heh.

This goes for both online and voice mail messages...

I keep reading new threads on another forum where one paragraph is a page long, and the subject title is Help.

Sheesh get to the point already. I hang up on long voice mails without listening to them, and I pass right over these posts as well. Give me a clue up front to what the problem is, and perhaps I can wade through the long story to understand and maybe have a tip or so.

<sigh>

how about the subject: Has anyone had this problem?

text:

ramble ramble ramble... 2 pages, later gets to the point? grrr

I wish they would put a post on the main page about not typing in caps

or refer to a link on how to post properly.

I hate people posting in colors. Very hard to read. If it is not posted in black , I usually just skip it. Donna

It Still Irks Me When I See Posts Like This.

Grrrrr. I Mean Really, It Takes More Effort To type like that then anything ... just annoying.

It Still Irks Me When I See Posts Like This.

Grrrrr. I Mean Really, It Takes More Effort To type like that then anything ... just annoying.

Yep, that caps thing drives me right around the twist, too. I refuse to read those posts. Why the f@#k do they do it???

Yep, that caps thing drives me right around the twist, too. I refuse to read those posts. Why the f@#k do they do it???

no idea, green...

but perhaps my lack of caps annoys people, but its cause i'm lazy :mad:, dont intentionally make it difficult and start a new sentence with each word. at least i do use punctuation... for now

I prefer under-capitalization to over-capitalization.

I'm not sure if it's still the case, but at one point this board's software would automatically convert all-caps to first letter capitalized. I'll type my next sentence all caps so we can see if it still does:

THIS SENTENCE IS ALL CAPS.

(ETA - looks like that function is no longer in place)

Granted, I'm sure there are people who intentionally capitalize each letter, they have a lot more time to dedicate to typing than I do. It does add to the difficulty of reading the message -- messes with the eyes too much.

I like to see the actual subject of the message as the title. That helps me know whether or not I need to respond to it (as does the number of replies). I do not like misleading titles, or ambiguous "draw you in titles." Using potential titles here as an example, I would rather see "I need help with meals" as a title than "Can you help me..." and only once I'm in the message do I see they need help with meals.

I also find a little annoyance when the title is "OH MY GOD HELP ME PLEASE!!!" and the message is asking whether or not it's ok to drink Crystal Light lemonade.

Wall of text, caps, distracting fonts -- don't bother me so much because I largely just ignore them, if it's an option.