6772FordFseries
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Forum guidelines...please read!
Hi everyone...welcome to the FORDification discussion forum. There aren't many rules here, but there ARE a few suggestions/requests:
1) Please take a moment to review the various topic listings and post your question(s) in the most relevant arena. Postings which are deemed off-topic will be moved to where it would most likely be considered on-topic. This includes offers to buy, sell or trade parts or vehicles. I encourage those types of discussion...all I ask is you keep it where it belongs. If it appears there are questions which don't fit any particular category, a new topic can be added at a later date.
2) There are no filters in place here, in regards to vendors, language, etc. The honor system in policing yourself is preferred, and I strongly encourage you to act mature. This forum is not a democracy...any posting which I deem unfit for general consumption will be immediately removed. Repeat offenders will be banned from posting. I could always start with the filters, but I believe this should be a free forum...moderated with restraint, to a point, however. Which brings me to another request...
3) Please don't feed the trolls! You know the type: always stirring up trouble, swearing, or posting things of bad taste. Ignore them and they'll go away...or be banished with malice. I have no tolerance for intolerance.
4) As a courtesy to the readers, spelling and punctuation is something you probably should try to keep as accurate as possible. While a misspelled word or two is no catastrophe, if every other word is so misspelled that a reader has to study it to make out what it's supposed to be, chances are he's going to give up and move on to the next post. Also, a run-on sentence, which actually might be two or three (or more) sentences just spilling out onto the next with no breaks is equally hard to follow. Remember...PERIODS and COMMAS are your friends!...plus they're make it more likely somebody will respond to your post, since they're not such a chore to read.
Just have fun, behave yourself (for the most part) and enjoy being a part of a great group!
Keith
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69crew
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Re: Forum guidelines...please read!
punctuation and spelling. Keith you might suggest to members that they use punctuation and check their spelling. This subject came up on another forum I'm a member of and I was pleasantly surprised to see that i'm not the only one who feels this way. The gist of the thread was that posts with no punctuation don't get good responses. I for one don't have the time or patience to try to decipher an unpunctuated post. Spelling is of less concern, considering all the slang and whatnot, but again if I can't understand your post due to spelling and grammar how can I respond? Descriptive subject lines and coherent posts get the most responses, period, so make it easier on those that are trying to help you by helping them. Oh and details, details, details. It's hard enough to do a long distance diagnosis as it is but when the reader has to guess at the details it makes the diagnosis hit and miss at best. So give us the details!
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Re: Forum guidelines...please read!
Excellent suggestion! I was an college English major in college (in a previous chapter of life...and I only made it through two semesters before dropping out) and I also work at the local newspaper, often doing proof-reading of copy before it hits the presses. At work I'm almost a Nazi when it comes to proper puncuation, spelling, correct grammatical usage, etc.
While I agree that these areas are of much less concern to others as they are to me personally, I have to admit I hate having to re-read a post several times, trying to mentally insert periods, commas, etc. just so I can understand what the poster is trying to say. I'd almost say puncuation is more important than spelling...as long as the spelling is reasonably close, I'll ignore errors. But those little periods and commas go a LONG way in properly conveying what you're trying to say and making reading a post effortless, rather than a chore.
I'll add something to the Forum Guidelines about that. Thanks for the suggestion.
Keith
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