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From a forum I moderate: xxxxx (a new poster) wrote TALKING OF SHORT FORMED TRAINS DID ANYONE TRAVEL ON THE 17.02 FROM MELKSHAM 12/03/08 JUST A SINGLE 153, I THINK EVERONE GOT ON DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED UP THE LINE. I'm not usually inclined to pull someone up in their first or second post - especially as some people just post a handful of times. But I do find the use of all capitals to be hard to read - as if I'm being shouted at, and I am tempted to ask the writer to modify the posts - or at least to add in lower case where appropriate on future contributions. It reminds me uncomfortably of a time that I was a moderator on another board and we all (in the moderation team) getting a bit steamed up about the poor typing, use of English and pure stupidity (apparently) of some of the things that came from one particular poster. "Is she real? Is she a troll? Is she a [personal description deleted]?" we asked. And we darned nearly shut her account off. It turned out that she was nearly blind and (I think - it is a long time back) wheelchair bound or nearly so - every byte of her posts were a struggle and once you knew of her background, which she wasn't shouting about / asking sympathy for you understood why some things happened to her. I'm not suggesting the same will turn out to be the case here - though we could have posts submitted through a very simple device where case-mixing is hard to this day ... Location, time and date modified to protect the identity of the original poster ... (written 2008-03-16, updated 2008-03-18) Associated topics are indexed under G903 - Well House Consultants - Running and moderating forums[4065] Handling requests to a forum - the background process - (2013-04-17) [4025] Backups, Codebase, Strategy and more - dealing with forum incidents - (2013-03-03) [4017] Acceptable User Policy / vexatious interacter - (2013-02-24) [3910] Identifying your real customers and keeping them well informed fast - (2012-11-02) [3479] Practical Extraction and Reporting - using Python and Extreme Programming - (2011-10-14) [2820] Netiquette for forum newcomers - (2010-06-20) [2781] The 500 pound question to get you started - (2010-05-26) [2569] How to run a successful online poll / petition / survey / consultation - (2010-01-10) [2527] Flying tonight - (2009-12-05) [2526] A reluctance to move from old shoes to new - (2009-12-05) [2386] Computing under the influence of alcohol - (2009-08-29) [2254] Forum membership - a privilege not a right - (2009-06-22) [2177] Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up - (2009-05-12) [2162] Admins thoughts on banning a member from a forum - (2009-05-09) [2156] Stopping forum spam - control of the signup process - (2009-05-04) [2116] Why do we delay new forum members through authorisation? - (2009-04-03) [2103] Ask the Tutor - Open Source forum - (2009-03-25) [1972] Pettifog and forum boards away from public view - (2009-01-03) [1923] Making it all worthwhile - (2008-12-04) [1759] While the world sleeps ... - (2008-08-19) [1678] Software - changes and delays. But courses must run on time! - (2008-06-15) [1595] First Great Western Weekend - (2008-03-30) [1569] I dont care - goodbye - (2008-03-09) [1563] Guidlines for posting on a forum - (2008-03-04) [1539] A forum is not always the best vehicle - (2008-02-14) [1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums - (2008-02-05) [1523] Ive just received an email from myself. Should I be worried? - (2008-01-29) [1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members. - (2007-12-26) [1472] The Horse goes on and on - (2007-12-15) [1362] No Thank You - (2007-09-23) [1190] Save the Forum - A regular clean sweep - (2007-05-17) [1088] Why use BBC code not HTML? - (2007-02-21) [948] Running an on line campaign - (2006-11-27) [923] Why shouldn't I spam? - (2006-11-13) [919] Freedom for X is denial of privacy for Y - (2006-11-09) [841] Forum help - a push in the right direction - (2006-08-21) [828] Freedom of speech and freedom to post - (2006-08-10) [806] Check your user is human. Have him retype a word in a graphic - (2006-07-17) [651] Please Register with Opentalk - but just once! - (2006-03-19) [516] Open source questions? Anyone can ask. - (2005-12-03) [424] How not to run a forum - (2005-08-24) [248] Use me, but use me effectively - (2005-03-16) [231] Feedback as lifeblood - (2005-02-28) [204] The confidence to allow public comments - (2005-02-06) [130] Spelling and grammar - (2004-11-25) [115] Expiration dates or times on web pages - (2004-11-12) [29] Silence is Golden - (2004-08-26) [22] Falling out over the silliest things - (2004-08-21) 3052
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