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02-07-2004, 07:34 AM
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This post originally served as a very, very good example of spam in it's purest form. Several key aspects that may be pointed out are as follows:

ALL CAPS- IT IS VERY HARD TO READ TEXT IN ALL CAPS. IT CAN MAKE EVEN THE MOST INTELLECTUAL SOUND LIKE AN ILLITERATE BABOON.

Very few spaces- By not properly spacing words and punctuating, the width of a post is greatly inscreased, thus making it a long scroll to read the whole thing. Don't ever do that. The only acceptable reason why any topic should have an active left/right scroll bar is because of pictures.

Ability to delete 87% of the post- ...yet have it be 5x as readable. Scrolling wwwwwwwwooooooooorrrrrrrddddddddsssssss, even for emphasis, isn't cool.

I'm quite inspired to create a "General Posting Tips" thread. That way, I can cover flaming, netiquette, etc...

Last edited by Majic; 02-09-2004 at 04:12 PM..