Darkfeather
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No fucker teaches you to capitalise a word that isn't a proper name in the middle of a sentence unless they're an imbecile.
Wow, thanks for that college level response. You must be new to kink
So, you just got a taste of what newbies think of that practice...
The point is: is this forum a playground for kinksters - or is it public forum where we want newbies to feel welcome?
I am no new kinkster, but I am annoyed when I have to put a translator's cap on in order to read what other people write. Instead "we" and "ours", they write "W/we" and "Ours/ours", and some refer to themselves in plural (like some other royalty!), whereas others completely avoid the use of "I", "me", and "my". It is very annoying to read, and, for a newbie, it raises the question if this is the way they too are supposed to write posts...?
And if you are a Dom/Domme who thinks that it is important for me to constantly be reminded of your status in your personal relationship by capitalizing all words relating to yourself, then my knee-jerk reaction is "what an arrogant ass hole!" Sure, I might modify my opinion on the basis of other reasons, but really, I have no interest in such reminders. Mind you, in my vanilla life, I also have no respect for people's use of titles. I don't care. We are all humans, and all humans are equal. NO one has any rights to be treated with greater respect than others.
I can better accept absolutchocolat's lazy consistency about never using the shift key, but even that is still disrespectful of others, because it makes reading more difficult. And the fact that other people are not very good at writing English is no legitimate excuse for an intelligent person to make it worse. Throwing hizzy fits over this? No, of course not - but the consequences certainly are that it lowers my interest in such a post as it shows to me that the person writing is more concerned about his/her own convenience than about the message being read and well understood by other people. If that's the desired effect, then so be it.
I learned early on in life that communication must aim at being understood by the receiver. Just communicating out into the ether (or cyber space) without any concern for how the communication is going to be received and understood make no sense, but every deviation from what is generally seen as "good English" definitely adds something to the message, and it is not something positive.
And my point, which I seem to have to pound home rather often, is who cares what you think of mine, his, absolutchocolat's, or anyone else's views. Your opinion is meaningless to us. You can simply choose to participate or ignore. To insult just proves how ignorant of human inter-relations you are. You are certainly entitled to what you think of what goes on here, just as the less than eloquent person I refereed to earlier was. But when you insult someone in public, they go defensive at best, angry at worst. Hell, I have seen a LOT of kink in my time, and can point to a fair bit I don't agree with. But would I call anyone out on it, no never. Because its their kink, not mine. I can walk away from whatever discussion they are having, however they are acting. To think I am somehow "entitled" to enforce my opinion on them, is the definition of arrogance.
If you think that was an insult, you need to get out more.
Wow, you are the second person to make be sigh. Did I ever say it was an insult to me? Have you even read my responses in this now 7 page post? My point is, someone may find it insulting. I have already made my views on the subject quite clear, and no matter what is said to me, you included, I would not find insulting.
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