Polite request 're posting style

I find that generally most of the long posts without paragraphs and punctuation are written by someone who is in distress due to something which is happening in his or her life.
Therefore I tend to disregard grammatical errors and just read the post and all the comments to the very end.
Too much time on my hands? No, I just enjoy Gransnet!

I think that would be asking a lot Amagram.

I get the point about letting people do what they want but as Bradfordlass has pointed out that certain folk have a particular problem and need more white space etc to be able to read, it seems reasonable to try.

Some posts are very long and it would help.

However I doubt that I will remember.

My feeling is that it is inappropriate to comment on the style, layout, grammar etc. of anyone's post. However, I think that phoenix has a perfectly valid point about using more paragraphs to improve accessibility.

I do not know how GNHQ works, but I wonder if it would be possible, where accessibility is compromised, to do a simple edit and then ask the OP's permission to apply it (all done 'behind the scenes', not in the public domain, of course).

Pheonix…… On the surface its not at all an unreasonable request.
As a general rule I already try my best to do this.

But where will it end?

Gabriella54 does have a point, which rules should we try to follow and which can we ignore?

This thread comes in a long line of 'Polite' requests, I seem to remember one suggesting not to 'Darken Threads', another 'No complaining about MIL/DIL etc.' threads, and yet another suggesting 'No Acronyms', and so on and so on.

Forgive me, but I'm beginning to feel a little bit like I'm still in school!!

This is an open forum, and I realise this may upset some people and I am not trying to be argumentative or rude, but isn't it down to each of us to cope as best we can like adults with some of the minutiae of life without expecting others to do it for us?

Not forgetting that the op is really asking for the majority to spend more of their time typing, checking and previewing what they write.

Which is very stressful.
I know because it takes me quite a while to compose and then follow the above to make sure I'm readable.

When really all most of us wants is to reach out to another person for conversation and company!!

BTW do people realise they can magnify the screen if they have trouble seeing?
It might just solve a few difficulties.

I think it is irrelevant how any of us post. You either choose to read or you don’t. I really don’t give a monkeys toot about how anyone uses paragraphs, commas, grammar, spacing or whatever else. It is none of my business .

As one of those with very poor sight, I very much appreciate paragraphs and white spaces.

AMD makes text dance and undulate (quite fascinating to watch really) so posts without the above are not just hard but impossible to read.

However, I certainly understand that when writing something in passion or distress, it is easy to forget how it will seem on the page.

Nor is everyone as familiar with the use of punctuation; many have reading and learning problems. So it distresses me a little when those who have none of these issues, seek to make those who do, feel inadequate and ashamed.

I do NOT mean this present OP

Nor do I think people choose to ignore requests to use punctuation, paragraphs and white space - they simply do not see these requests, the nature of Gransnet being that one can select what and where to read.
Or they may see and then forget.

Thank you phoenix, I am one of those for whom you advocate but for all the above reasons I don't think it will continue.

The ' is not in the wrong place.

It is superfluous.

I agree phoenix

Sometimes a post is tltr but could possibly be tackled if paragraphed.

(Too long to read)

The comma in the air is in the wrong place. In the thread title. Btw.

Type wot you like how you like I say.

This thread will be here today and gone tomorrow anyway.

Seems reasonable enough.

Of course phoenix
There is nothing for me to 'get over'.
I wholeheartedly agree with double spacing as per your request and I mentioned the lack of punctuation as I and some others on here, at one time or another, have mentioned the difficulty in reading long comments sans paragraphs and any form of punctuation.

This, when I have raised the question, has elicited verbal abuse from some posters and resulted in deletion and warnings from GNHQ.

I cannot see why one request is acceptable and the other is not.
It's not an argument. I asked 'why?' in a perfectly reasonable manner.

May I also ask what was the point of mentioning that you bothered to use my full moniker?

I can see that you did and thank you very much indeed
however, I never shorten anyone's site name but I don't remind them of my ability to type a few extra characters.

Dear Phoenix and other interested parties,

Unless you are effing and blinding or demanding, all requests are polite .

Therefore I request that it be considered that the subject of this thread be amended forthwith to read Request re posting style.

I remain,

Yours faithfully,

(Knot).

As I've just said on another thread, I was taught to type and leave two spaces for paragraphs.

I'm happy to do so!

they takes my mind off more worrying stuff.

I didn't intend to sound like Clarrie Grundy.

I agree. Even if the post initially seems interesting, if it is a long rambling one without paragraphs I generally don't bother reading it. Also get irritated by huge swathes of cut and pasted articles (usually propoganda) but appreciate that it is sometimes necessary to illustrate a point.

merlotgran I agree , if I see a block of text , I really can’t be bothered !

I agree about the paragraphs. I lose interest in long blocks of text.

I also don't mind threads about unimportant topics because they takes my mind off more worrying stuff.

I texted my grandson last night to see if he was ok and the answer I got back was ‘Yh g’ apparently that means ‘yeah good’
Sorry gone off piste but yes I agree paragraphs help

So much more to worry in about in my life.

Sorry.

i can pritti much cope with anyfink xept txt speak like wot the kids do. do u get wot i meen?

I agree with phoenix.

Some people (eg those who are dyslexic) like lots of 'white' space in posts!

Whitewavemark2 no!

I never think to put paragraphs in.I just blabber on.

Oh GabriellaG54 (I have taken the trouble to address you in your preferred style, as in one of your threads) but, please, just get over yourself and realise that other users of GN might be better able to use this forum with just a little bit of consideration as to spacing etc?

I'm not one of them, but I do know of that at least one member who finds it much easier to read posts if paragraphs and spacing between them are used.

Are you going to dare to correct my post??