New Punctuation/Grammar/Spelling Policy

Hello airsofters! Thanks to several different factors, including all of your contributions to this forum, Airsoft Forum 2.0 has, and will continue to, grown in member size. This makes for some exciting times ahead for us all. However, to aid in the expansion of this site, we will be enforcing our new punctuation, grammar, and spelling policy. This means before hitting that "Submit" button you'll need to go through your post and make sure you've caught all your incorrect English. We realize that everyone makes mistakes from time to time, but we're really talking about the people who continuously misspell words, use incorrect grammar, and fail to use proper punctuation.

I’ve looked at several other online forums to see their policies on enforcing posting etiquette and grammar, and have found many that are surprisingly harsh on their members. I don’t want to be overly harsh, nor do I want this to be an English lesson. This is an airsoft forum, not an English class. However, I do want this to remain a somewhat professional, inviting environment for all members – veterans and newbies alike. To do this I want to highly encourage every one of you to check over your posts before actually sending them. Look for misspellings, incorrect word usages, lack of punctuation, etc. Using Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer can greatly help with this! Although it won’t catch your grammar, it will automatically underline misspellings.

Here are some helpful hints as stated by Decoy of Airsoft Ohio:

1) Be humble - Don't assume you know anything, or have to be the righteous hand of the mods until you are WELL vested into the community. For the knowing part, that means LISTENING and LEARNING from the environment long before you try to act better than those who make the environment. For the righteous part, being a VETERAN who has done something for the community and apart of the said community for some time (i.e. more than 1-2 years)

2) Spelling/punctuation - A lot is said about a person by their writing. If you're 14 and you swear you're mature enough to attend an 18+ event...saying "but im mature ask ne1 they tell u" doesn't help your argument.

3) Think before posting - Think about what you're trying to say before you hit "submit reply". How does my response make me look? Remember, every action you take has an effect. If you come on an airsoft forum acting like an A-hole, you'll be treated like an A-hole. If you act like you're better than everyone else, then you might get treated like a second class citizen.

4) Content Value - Ask yourself, does my post add to the value of the discussion? If the answer is 'no', then guess what? You've probably irritated someone and wasted a bunch of people's time.

5) Content Length - Unless answering a direct question, your responses or contributions should be more than cheering or brain farts (i.e. completely useless material) and should be longer than two sentences.

6) Utilize YOUR knowledge - If something doesn't pertain to you, or you have little to no first hand knowledge then don't post. Talking about how to upgrade a gun based off of a 'friend of a friend's' situation doesn't make what you're saying right, although in some cases it might. Don't deal with absolutes unless it is proven as an absolute. Just because something doesn't work for you (like a retailer for instance) doesn't mean it won't work in someone else's case.

Couldn't agree more!

Same here.

I concure, I find misspellings shallow and pedantic.

But of course to err is human and to forgive is divine , both of which mak up every day human life , so a little misspellings here and there are not reason to bring out the cat of nine tails .

Misspellings are common upon our fellow Airsoft community and should not be penalized but get a warning. as for everything else, i agree.

I don´t think anybody is going to get their lunch eaten for simple misspelling, until it gets to a point where it is almost impossible to comprehend or understand, and for some there might even be some leeway granted.

M R Ducks !
M R not Ducks
M R 2 Ducks
L I B, M R Ducks !!

Don´t think anybody needs to be reading posted comments like the above.

Thanks for making the effort to make this a statement in regard to grammar and spelling. I'm a nazi when it comes to that sort of thing, and believe it or not, has driven me away from a forum once...