Just some of the things I need to get off my chest.
Things to consider before you post.
Published on January 28, 2008 By mschleisner In Community
Don't post till you check your spelling. I know it might be difficult but why look like someone with a second grade education when you know you can do better. I think most just post and never look back to read what they have written first. Maybe you look after you post and think "oh no" did I really do that? Most miss-spelled words are just that, the person couldn't spell it, some are just silly as in the word wallpapers or problem, those look like someone who is frustrated but I think just re-reading your work is a must before you post. No one here might say anything but we do think it. There is no spell check for the posts here and I have been at other sites that have them and people seem to think they are too smart to use them.  I would say to that, so sorry but your post didn't make the cut because you didn't spell check. Here there isn't that option so you must proof read your post first and if you are not sure of the spelling please look up the word first to make sure you look like someone took a little time to read before you post. I do this for my own sanity. I try very hard to make sure I at least try to spell it right before I post. I might not be the brightest bulb in the box but I don't want to look like the broken bulb either. Please just check before you post and save the people here from looking at these mistakes and try to use "Caps" where needed. Couldn't hurt. Thanks from someone who goes crazy when she views posts like this. 
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on Feb 27, 2008
Behind? arrr, don't ye mean under from't front t'back? What kind a pirate wench be e?




OK, I admit; talking piratish in a foreign language it too much for me.

"keel-haulin" - what do ye mean with that gibberish?
on Feb 27, 2008
though somehow it got belayed


another word learned... had to look it up. Thanks
on Feb 27, 2008
arrr, a bit of stuff for ye landlubbers WWW LINK - Keelhauling
on Feb 27, 2008

It seems to be an universal law, that anyone who behaves in a lazy and inconsiderate way is considered "cool" and "tolerant", while everyone who points that bad behaviour out is "a nazi".


I'm a writer and editor; therefore, I *am* a grammar Nazi. But there's a huge difference between writing for professional publication and casual communications.

...and tell me about it, Aufisch. There's a reason I don't play online games anymore.
on Feb 27, 2008
My mother was an English teacher. I'm a grammer-nazi by proxy.....

Guilt by association, I guess.......  
on Feb 27, 2008
My father was an English teacher as well. It's like some kind of horrific Lamarckian inheritance...
on Feb 27, 2008
Lamarck. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a few years...
inheritance of acquired characteristics, if I remember correctly......
on Feb 27, 2008
My mother was an English teacher


My father was an English teacher as wel


Neither of my parents were teachers... but, very much against my wishes, they sent me to school anyway... to an English teacher who'd give one a good lambasting with the blackboard rubber should they make a spelling mistake/punctuation error.

She was a cruel little woman who looked much like Granny Clampett from The Beverley Hillbillies; thus she got the name, Granny Russell... and pasted us black n' blue with the blackboard ruler if she ever heard us. Oh well, she got the job done... the thought of a flying blackboard rubber, which all too often found its target, prompted one to think twice about spelling words incorrectly.

I guess old habits...er, fears die hard!! I still try to use correct English...'cepts when I be 'aarrghhin' and 'ye scurvy swabbin'.
on May 03, 2008
I agree and have been bashed for all of it.

Paragraphs, yes punctuation, oh boy and on and on...

It's funny when someone just asked for a little look at one's post before they post so that we all look like we have some education isn't such a bad thing, really!

Texting has become so ingrained in our society that we fail to use our skills that were taught to us regrading spelling. My neice just told me she has noticed she is starting to have a problem with her spelling because of texting.

Now if she has noticed, I believe we should all look at what we post. I really don't care about those who think they are so good that they think they feel it shows a lack of confidence in what they do in life. How sad for them. I want to at least think I try to make what you read as good as I can. Yes I will make mistakes, don't we all?

I was just hoping for a little better quality and thought put into the posts. Sorry it turned into a spelling and grammer test for me instead of us looking at what we do ourselves. I didn't know people really didn't care about it but thanks.

To all who responded thanks for all the crap you gave me, I deserved it. This place is one place I know my spelling will get me in trouble, my posts, my downloaded wallpapers, my photos, and everything else I do here will get slammed no matter what. I don't mind, I have plenty of other places to visit too. The internet is a vast place to go for everything I need and what I get from here nowdays is very little.

I used to visit everyday, now maybe once a month. I have lost my interest in this site and don't think I will renew anything anymore. How sad is that. I have been telling my friends about this site for a long time and even putting it on my websites, not anymore.

This may not make it to print but thats ok too. I am just waiting to get slammed for this one. I paid my membership, and I remain paid. I will download what I need and move on, without interest in what goes on here.

Do as you wish and have a good time. Enjoy whats here and take what you need and move on. Great site for what I want to make my computer look good but the walls are getting boring and I have found much better elsewhere. I like photography, and thats what I download and yes I fix the sizes myself with the programs I have installed on my computer so size doesn't matter, this is for you Stardock and Frogboy.
Who don't like my photos because I don't resize them and they say are personal, what about kids here and photos of peoples cars? Thats not personal? Whatever guys.

Thanks for the memories of what Wincustomize used to be. Fun.

Thanks for everything else though. bye
on May 03, 2008

Who don't like my photos because I don't resize them and they say are personal,

One last time...your 'photos' were not 'liked' because they were being submitted to the wrong place.  For a photo to even be CLOSE to being suitable as a WALLPAPER it needs to have a recognized screen resolution and proportion.

It's not complicated.  It never was complicated....

on May 03, 2008
I guess I have to agree with Nimbin. As this is a multi-national site and not everyone's first language is English, I applaude everyone for at least trying their best. I have no problems understanding anyone. Keep up the good work guys....  
on May 03, 2008
Hmmm . . post was dead.  Over and done with.  Lost in the sands of time.

And now it's back.  

Wincustomize is what we, the community, make of it.  It can be fun and serious, and sad, and hopeful.  It can be all those things in the same thread.  It is a living, breathing, entity (that doesn't really live or breathe.  I'm being figurative here.  . . . but we who add content are . . and that should could for something, right?)

Come, go, stay, leave . . . it's all good.

Wincustomize will be here with the same sense of community it's always had.

So long, and thanks for all the fish. 
on May 03, 2008
Did someone say fish?...
on May 03, 2008
Mmm...fish fry
on May 03, 2008
Uh oh, that wallpaper thing again...

Fuzzy goes off to find a recently deceased horse...
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