I see... I don't know about anyone else, but I find such post rather disrespectfull, especially if it only says wat without the ?Not really. If you are going to get upset about illiteracy you might as well stop using the internet. :P
Anyone else troubled by this?
Just because its internet language or anything is not good enough.Yes it is. :huh:
maybe it's because everyone's afraid of LPchip!
[grammarnazi] RAWRRRRR! 'BUT' SHOULD BE CAPITALIZED! [/grammarnazi]maybe it's because everyone's afraid of LPchip!
I am :|
but I thank this forum for helping me with my grammar! :D
I use "wut" for when someone says something extremely bizarre and/or stupid. In my mind, it constitutes something like "...WHAT." I don't consider it an abbreviation, as long as the person using it uses it for specific purposes and speaks normally otherwise. However, people who use "wat" or "wut" all the time instead of using "what" when it's normal to use annoy me.I agree with this post completely.
Please don't get me wrong here.Care to explain why it's disrespectful? Because I really don't understand that. Even though I can see why you think just saying wat in a post is kinda stupid.
I'm not against the use of the word 'wat', as it is part of Internet lingo. I'm against filling an entire post with this word. Feels really disrespectful to me.
Oh, as a side note, I'd like to bar the word "awesmoe" from our forum vocabulary. People are spelling it wrong on purpose, and it's annoying to look at.Wha-wha-WHAT? :shocked:
Oh, as a side note, I'd like to bar the word "awesmoe" from our forum vocabulary. People are spelling it wrong on purpose, and it's annoying to look at.It's not so much annoying to look at, as it doesn't feel quite right when you say it aloud. (For me at least)
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Oh, as a side note, I'd like to bar the word "awesmoe" from our forum vocabulary. People are spelling it wrong on purpose, and it's annoying to look at.[darthvader]NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO![/darthvader]
If you don't want people making one-word posts, add a rule against it. It's a common rule and nobody would complain.That wouldn't be the way to go about doing this, though. It would be complicated because there's too many situations where a one-word post would be legitimate and would have a lot of thought go into it. The issue we're trying to fight here is when little thought is put into a post. But not all one-word posts are pointless, and not all pointless posts are one word.
E-Mails or posts on message boards that were either pointlessly made by an annoying person, or made to annoy that were made by an annoying person. Or a link to a computer virus.Pointless is the key word there. "Wat" has a meaning. If someone says "Yo dawg i herd u liek cars so i put a car in yo car so you can drive while you drive" and I reply with "wat", that person will say, "Oh, sorry. I mean, I can put a smaller car within your other car. Thus, you can drive your smaller car inside your bigger car while driving your bigger car." If someone repeatedly posts "wat" as the reply to everything in a thread, that's spam, yes. If it's like the latter, then, no, it's not.
When you put some time into making a post, it can always happen that someone is not understanding what you say. This is normal. When someone then just says:Quotewat
I find this very disrespectful as the wat poster didn't took time to make such post. When I see this, I think: if the wat poster did not took the time to write that post, the wat poster probably didn't even took the time to read the original post and thus doesn't understand it in the first place. Next to that, a wat post is wasting forumspace which I think is just an act of being careless. Someone that is not caring, is imho not respecting others which is disrespectful.
I hope this is making sense. If not, please just tell me what you don't understand. I will for obvious reasons ignore a wat post.
Hey, chill dude. Stop being so ridicolous.
I mean that it's ridicolous to be offended by something like that.
I agree. Like you wouldn't be offended if someone would say "what?" but then "wat" Oh that is so bad it's is so offending and people that say it is stupid. If you don't like internet then leave.If someone made an entire post that only said "What?" and used posts like that just like the posts we've been complaining about, I'd be annoyed at it too.
Hey, chill dude. Stop being so ridicolous.Hey, you're the one who put a random post saying "wat" in a thread that's against it. Don't go poking the bears and then complain the warning sign wasn't big enough.
I agree. Like you wouldn't be offended if someone would say "what?" but then "wat" Oh that is so bad it's is so offending and people that say it is stupid. If you don't like internet then leave.If someone made an entire post that only said "What?" and used posts like that just like the posts we've been complaining about, I'd be annoyed at it too.
Secondly I'm still looking into how much people are disturbed by this. It seems that enough people are disturbed by the meaningless of a single worded post, so if we're going to do something about this, it'll be on that matter.