The other day, making a post, I realized that I was actually working around something to avoid a formatting moderation. (In this case, I used "terminal", because the terminal in question is a port, but for a port tag to be correct, one would have to use x11/<term_name>. Of course, I could have also used man.)
I dislike the thought of coming in and causing trouble -- it's similar, in a way, to visiting a Japanese household and not taking off one's shoes. However, today, I saw a post on a Linux forum with a FreeBSD question, because the person didn't want to post here, because they were worried about being criticized for grammar and formatting.
Therefore, with no criticism intended, I wonder if it would be worthwhile having a poll of sorts, to ask whether the vast majority of members feel that the forums would benefit from much less formatting. (For example, sometimes, when Google brings a link to the forum, the formatting makes it far less readable, because a tag wasn't properly closed, or during the forums' conversion, something didn't get formatted properly.)
For me (and please remember, this is just one person's opinion) the essential tags would be code and frequently, though not always, command. The ports, file (ARGHH -- trying to get full editor to get a list of tags in front of me, I wound up posting prematurely, but anyway) and man tags, should, in my VERY humble opinion, be optional. They don't make a post much more readable to me, and the only use might be a link to a man page. As for English grammar and correction, I would say moderation in moderation.
I very much dislike textspeak, and things like u for you, and similar things should be corrected. Non-English speakers -- well, that's an issue that I really don't know. I'm married to one, and sometimes she wants to be correct and other times she doesn't.
I repeat, this is just my opinion, but I do sometimes think a poll might be a good idea to see what the users, the people this forum is meant to serve, think about the whole thing. My own dislike is about the insistence for ports, man, and file. As for grammar and such, I'm always ready to defend my own use of say, ..., but that aspect is just trivial to me. (A native speaker, with confidence in my own English knowledge, though I freely admit I mistype at times.)
I really hate bringing up bikeshed discussions -- naw, I don't hate it, I'm just embarrassed that I'm doing it, but the two things that make me mention it are the two that I've mentioned here -- someone's reluctance to post here because of fear of being corrected, and my own time wasting of working around whether to use command, port, or man, by just avoiding the issue and saying terminal instead of the terminal in question.
Thanks for listening, and hopefully, the moderators realize that I do appreciate their work, and these forums.
I dislike the thought of coming in and causing trouble -- it's similar, in a way, to visiting a Japanese household and not taking off one's shoes. However, today, I saw a post on a Linux forum with a FreeBSD question, because the person didn't want to post here, because they were worried about being criticized for grammar and formatting.
Therefore, with no criticism intended, I wonder if it would be worthwhile having a poll of sorts, to ask whether the vast majority of members feel that the forums would benefit from much less formatting. (For example, sometimes, when Google brings a link to the forum, the formatting makes it far less readable, because a tag wasn't properly closed, or during the forums' conversion, something didn't get formatted properly.)
For me (and please remember, this is just one person's opinion) the essential tags would be code and frequently, though not always, command. The ports, file (ARGHH -- trying to get full editor to get a list of tags in front of me, I wound up posting prematurely, but anyway) and man tags, should, in my VERY humble opinion, be optional. They don't make a post much more readable to me, and the only use might be a link to a man page. As for English grammar and correction, I would say moderation in moderation.
I very much dislike textspeak, and things like u for you, and similar things should be corrected. Non-English speakers -- well, that's an issue that I really don't know. I'm married to one, and sometimes she wants to be correct and other times she doesn't.
I repeat, this is just my opinion, but I do sometimes think a poll might be a good idea to see what the users, the people this forum is meant to serve, think about the whole thing. My own dislike is about the insistence for ports, man, and file. As for grammar and such, I'm always ready to defend my own use of say, ..., but that aspect is just trivial to me. (A native speaker, with confidence in my own English knowledge, though I freely admit I mistype at times.)
I really hate bringing up bikeshed discussions -- naw, I don't hate it, I'm just embarrassed that I'm doing it, but the two things that make me mention it are the two that I've mentioned here -- someone's reluctance to post here because of fear of being corrected, and my own time wasting of working around whether to use command, port, or man, by just avoiding the issue and saying terminal instead of the terminal in question.
Thanks for listening, and hopefully, the moderators realize that I do appreciate their work, and these forums.