• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Your Rules/Guidelines When Writing Posts

Secret Chief

Veteran Member
I can bake it into a nice cake, and everyone can have a slice!

mmmmm yes it looks delish...

31E6F4E6-00AC-4E83-97D9-5654673E5C5E.jpeg
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'm a bit of a rebel. I'll go into the grey areas and push things a bit. Mostly because people view forums for the entertainment and the fights. *grin*

It's got me into trouble once in awhile, but also I argue and debate those things that matter to me, and will never go from grey areas to the black and maintain a modicum of civility and adjust accordingly as best I can with my forays here from topic to topic while bopping heads and being bopped myself.
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
If a post's too long people will scroll over it. For complicated topics that would necessitate a very long post, I like to find a good link.
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
The OP was entirely about English grammar and punctuation. How has it morphed into rules about content?
 

gnomon

Well-Known Member
Do you follow any specific guidelines or rules when writing posts whether on RF or elsewhere online?

Personally, I often follow these rules and sometimes even rewrite parts of my posts if need be in order to meet the criteria I have for my posts:

• If a paragraph is over three lines long on a 16:9 computer monitor, then I either divide it into two or more paragraphs or omit parts of it in order to stay within the three-line limit. Even three lines sometimes feels like it's pushing it as far as blocks of text go.

• When I suspect that an if-conditional may be hard to follow due to the length of the if-clause, I rewrite it so that the main clause precedes the if-clause. This way, the reader doesn't have to keep in mind that they're still reading the if-clause when they finally get to the main clause and have to connect the two.

• This one is borrowed from my high-school Arabic classes: I often keep interjections and nonrestrictive clauses to a minimum or make sure they're not overly long. The pause in between other parts of writing may be quite unwieldy to read, so "filler" sentences are best kept short. If I use them, like I'm doing right now, my rule of thumb is that the two commas surrounding the nonrestrictive clause are too far apart if they span more than a few words. :D

• I usually start a new sentence after using one coordinating conjunction between two independent clauses. I don't want my writing to seem like a sequence of disorganized thoughts, so once I have connected two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction or semicolon, I figure it's time for a new sentence. So I start a new one even if that means starting a sentence with a conjunction!

• I tend to prefer to use synonyms when multiple instances of the same term occur in a paragraph or post. In addition to reducing tedium, synonyms sometimes even convey further depth and meaning depending on context.

• I dislike using capitalization for emphasis. Instead, I use italicized or bolded text—and more rarely, underlining as well.

• I try to avoid combining too many punctuation marks in one series of connected full sentences. For example, if this is one full sentence, I can now connect another to it; a semicolon allows me to do that—but where I used an em dash here for an example of what I mean, I would instead use a period and start afresh in a post that followed my criteria. I prefer to avoid an excess of punctuation.

What about you, RF denizens?

I don't follow any particular rules that I'm aware of. I admit I get confounded by the use of the Oxford comma and the proper use of an ellipsis but usually I just slam something out. Then I delete it. I slam it out again. Then I delete it. It's like a game.

I'm fond of Revoltingests poetic style.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
Fickle...
Charlotte ran a live video last night in which I took part. She seems to be in good form and as lovely as ever.

Just thought you might like to know.....:D

P.S. This is Charlotte:-

qXIbG6ESrnnSgzWoMLYpIKuobOLTAZSGmlczzDzvVua-g0W9rbZMFEzq5sycBY6oQUBYxput93qFNg=s640-nd-v1


She has a dimple by the right corner of her mouth when she smiles.
 
Last edited:
Top