V G wrote:
> It's not a perfect world, and not everyone may read the rules before
> posting for the first time, but we can't shoot them in the face for
> it.

Why not?  Not bothering to find out how things are done and formulating a
post properly is strongly disrespectful and therefore rude.  Everyone seems
focused on whether or not we're being rude to newbies, but conveniently
forgetting the fact that any exchange like that start with them being rude
first.

That all said, despite the fact that the OP that started this incident was
very rude from the start (not even bother to start sentences with a capital
letter or end with a period, texting, refusing to answer simple direct
questions), I tried to bring him along rather than shoot him in the face.  =
I
even described some guidelines how to do better in susbsequent posts withou=
t
being insulting about it, precisely to head off the kind of confrontation
the admins are always on about.


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