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[yarnellcg17]

Here is an example of what I'm seeing here.

i wanna play the new conkers abd fur day cos the old one was awsome

I would like to see posts that are proper and understandable and Etiquette

Seeing posts such as this that are not unstandable in the least, due in part of laziness, I'm very sure that we all have attended school and I very certain that teachers never allow this on any reports..and I'm sure that teachers do not practice laziness terms in place of proper grammar.

What I want to see is more posts that are understable to all readers, because if they are not..I'm just going to deem it as spam and they will be subject to deletion without any given notice.

[Mick]

It can certainly be frustrating trying to work out what a post means if it is not written in clear English.
Everyone should really have a quick look at what they have typed before submitting the post so any mistakes can be fixed. It only takes one typo to make a post confusing or unreadable so its a good idea to do a quick check.

Because of our rule that you need 15 posts on the forum to play games, we sometimes get people posting anything on the forums just to get into the Arcade. This spoils it for all the members who read the forums because they have to look through pages of spam to read the interesting posts.

Because of this problem the Moderators here will delete any post that is unreadable or makes no sense, for the sake of keeping the site good for the rest of us who are happy to follow the rules.

So please take a few seconds to check your post so you are sure it makes sense to anyone else reading it. I have found that if something is difficult to understand then people may skim over it and move onto something else rather than take the time trying to figure out what it means. So when you think about it, there's not much point in posting a message if no one can read it is there? :)

[yarnellcg17]

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Post Originally written by Arkacia ( Sr.Super Moderator ) on Dec. 10, 2004

[yarnellcg17]

Random Games does not promote or condone illegal drugs of any sort..
If you plan to come in and post such bragging..then you are basically no better then the pusher/s themselves..should you do so..1 of 2 things will occur..
You will have your post deleted and also you will be warned or you may flat out be banned out right..without warning..

This is a rule that I will enforce one way or another.. at discretion..

[Arkacia]

I've just spent a while cleaning up spam, and a lot of it was written in net/im speak.

From this day forward, net/im speech is banned on this forum and any posts using it will be deleted. There is no reason members can't use proper english and make their posts easy to read and understand by all. This gibberish is nothing more than a sign of laziness in my opinion.

This ban is also to respect those of our members who don't have english as their first, and in some cases second or third language. This net/im speech just makes it harder for some of them to understand what others have written.