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By influencing the way others act through our own communication?
Random posts, trolling, and leet/text speak does not last long when the rest of us post in a "classy" manner. Or try to post in a good helpful way.
That's the idea at least. So far, the beta has attracted a classy community and we can hope it will stay and grow with as few issues as possible.
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Ois: By influencing the way others act through our own communication?
Random posts, trolling, and leet/text speak does not last long when the rest of us post in a "classy" manner. Or try to post in a good helpful way.
That's the idea at least. So far, the beta has attracted a classy community and we can hope it will stay and grow with as few issues as possible.

RANDOM POSTS ARE AN ENDLESS SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT MY FRIEND AND CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL, TOO BAD I'M HOLDING DOWN SHIFT INSTEAD.
anyway, I just wanted to say, that in a general thread, I think it's a cool idea for us to socialize. Many of us here are random in nature, I myself love non-sequitur humor. But at the same time, it must be observed that respect towards others as well as confidence in all parties is well maintained. So in my personal opinion, being random isn't bad.
Using 1337 isn't bad either, it's just the majority of people who do use it, are immature and uneducated to proper behavior when conducting communication with others. You should consider ceasing to associate poor behavior with how a person is trying to communicate. If a society of peoples all had their head up their butts, and spoke a language different from your own, would you condemn anyone who used the language or just those people who had their head up their butts?
Anyway, I hope my post was able to appropriately defend what I believe in, while also opening up passages for new ideas in the people who read it, other wise I'VE FAILED HORRIBLY.
Okay, I admit I'm generalising and sterotyping a bit.
I'm not totally against a bit of random, a good bit of off-topic is all fine and good. I just don't like too much of it on forums (from my own subjective viewpoint of course :) )
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Weclock: Using 1337 isn't bad either, it's just the majority of people who do use it, are immature and uneducated to proper behavior when conducting communication with others. You should consider ceasing to associate poor behavior with how a person is trying to communicate. If a society of peoples all had their head up their butts, and spoke a language different from your own, would you condemn anyone who used the language or just those people who had their head up their butts?

1337 itself is not bad, depending on how it is used. If someone types only in this manner, then I reserve the right to ignore them, and even think them undesirable. I would not act on it though (other than the ignore), as they are free to type that way should they choose to.
You've lost me a little with the heads, butts and language. I'm not intending to associate anything, rather make a statement on posting dynamics. Or something that I have difficulty expressing to text.
If a person behaves poorly and has issues to communicate, would it not be better to assist them in behaving goodly(?) and encouraging them to communicate well?
I don't feel like continuing this line of conversation, but I will reply for arguments sake.
Its nice to help people who want help or need it, but if they don't want it, there's nothing you can do, and in most situations where if you attempt to aid someone who is communicating poorly, chances are they're enjoying it.