| The internet forum is a written language medium. This means that the only thing people on the forum have with which to judge your intelligence, your humor, your legitimacy, your trustworthiness, even your basic worth, are the words you write in your posts. People do not know you personally, everything they know about you comes from your posts.
Critically, what this means is that what you say is just as important as how you say it. If you can't spell, use proper grammar, understand the difference between you're/your, their/there/they're, etc, as far as anyone can tell you are an idiot. You may not actually be an idiot, but the point is, no one can tell from your posting. If you come off as an idiot, you will eventually be treated as one, regardless of your actual intelligence level.
So, before you post, do yourself a favor and ensure your text is complete and correct with regards to spelling and grammar. You may not think this is English class, but in reality it's more important than English class. People will judge your character based on the quality of your writing skills. |
