Posting

Hi, guys and gals!

Lately I've seen some long posts with no paragraphs. The readers' tendency will be to skip over such posts as they are daunting and difficult to read. Since the purpose of posting is to have others read it and respond, we should make it as easy for them as possible. So if your post becomes long, please break it up into paragraphs.

We also should pay attention to punctuation, again for ease of reading.

At a minimum, you should be able to spell diagnoses and medications correctly.

There is a medical word list (plus some "regular" words) at the end of Hepatitis Resources. If you have doubts about a word or med, check it out. If you have a suggestion for a word to be added to the list, shoot me an e-mail.

Thanks!

Connie

Zif cried when he read the post.

 Cried , No . Squealed a lil maybe . Yes our caped crusader is back , Spelling Bee !!!! All of Gotham ( Healing well ) is safe for the moment , Free of those vile villains like the dreaded Double Negative , The Punctuation Mangler and the Proper English Immobilizer . I had no idea we were in danger until I caught myself using spell check for the word " flu" , It tried to make me type flew instead . Oh horrors !!!! ( It cant differentiate the difference between flu and flew you know )   . I rushed to my sty and lit the " edit " search light and immediately our hero responded . Rest easy tonight my friends sheeeeeeeeeee's back !!!!

 Ziff

Mary, please stay.

I read this thread after posting a long post with no paragraphs! Ut oh!! Guess I'll go back and "fix" my long paragraph. I understand the reasoning; however, I disagree as I have in the past. People often come here in crisis. Their heads aren't thinking in paragraphs and word perfect. Some people can use spell check and still miss typos. That's what I have to say. I think there are people who leave when they think they have to post "perfectly". Sandia

LOL Connie... I was trying to figure out what condition amongmany was. OMG.

     this is getting uncomfortable

 

Although it is sometimes difficult to understand some posts due to spelling, grammar and obvious typos, I understand completely how these things happen. The members of this sight have huge hearts and their support for the "A+" English students is equal to their support of the "D" students. From what I have read, here and on other health-board sites, all the posters are aiming toward a common goal, to help each other out while we battle the curveball that's been thrown our way. Surely, we don't want to frighten away people who need our support by judging their educational or typing skills? Let's just get back to being the kind, understanding, nonjudgemental people we have been. If we really can't make head or tail from a post, maybe it was written by a distraught person who needs our understanding more than a writing lesson and we can always ask for clarification if it is indecipherable. Just think of the sufferers of HE - they're stressed enough; they shouldn't have to worry about any us of not giving them anything but our full support. Just sayin'...

I have had a very rough last few weeks,enough to keep me awake all night. But what make me stay awake even more last night was my long post and then the corrections to it and all the things I did wrong on it!
I come here for support and to maybe help give advice to help another person,never once did I think I had to worry about my punctuations. Now that I have to worry about how I am writing things down,I know I can no longer write on this site.
I will be to worried that I am writing things wrong,more then why I came here to write and post!
So,my best wishes to all of you,my thoughts and prayers will stay with you all,but my words will be kept to myself!
Take care,
Robin

NEH and Among,

  Hey, understand how your feeling.  Two years ago I was having a really rough day and posted a long long long no paragraph posting and got a slight "lecture" and thought nearly the same thing as you wrote, but.....after I thought it over, and got over the inital feeling of "oh crap one more thing I have to be careful of", I decided the real message to me was, "Here are some ideas to make it easier for some of the ill folks to read the posts."

So...I took a deep breath...and realized that some of my inital feelings of anger had to do with the fact I was grieving over the idea that I was slowly loosing the love of my life and that I needed this site....and they needed me (ok..that was a little big headed...but felt that way.)

Folks here are free to express whatever opinions they have and that has created some very deep and heated "conversations", but very helpful to help us all get through the days in one piece.  I have been on here about a year and a half, and Hep93 and A Ziffle go back and forth on this subject lots of times...with humor usually.

(Paragraph ;)  Hang in here with us.  Everyone gets an opinion.  I have found your postings helpful to me, so would hate to have you leave over such a "tiny" matter (in the overall scheme of what we are all dealing with).  Stay...  we need you...I need you.

Angie1953

Post Edited (Angie1953) : 2/19/2013 7:47:50 AM (GMT-7)

Ziff,my knickers have been in a bunch for a while now! Lately it doesn't take much for my feelings to get hurt,or for me to just get mad over small things. My life is a mess,my world is in a mess.
My 11 yr old is even getting sick over this. No young child should ever have to watch her own dad die,then watch another man who has become her father figure fight for his life.

This site has become so much to me,a place where I don't feel so alone,where I can come and say things,get facts and information,and just know I am not alone in this.But I will never ever be P.P.!
The main point is still the same,I am not perfect,never pretend to be,I am who I am,and I just felt that I was here for support and to give support,not to learn how to read and write again.

I don't think I can add much to this, except to echo Angie's comment about trying to get the real message.

"Here are some ideas to make it easier for some of the ill folks to read the posts."

And Ziffs "real reason they are so valuable to this site . Hint : It aint for your spelling or punctuation . "

Connie admitted that sometimes she gets carried away. It is much easier in a conversation than in a post, where you can't read between the lines.

Bottom line Robin and Mary, it's everyones loss if you don't stay...

Post Edited (Mariel52) : 2/19/2013 9:23:36 AM (GMT-7)

Probably, LOL I edited my spelling once, should have checked more thoroughly on the names.

Let's understand one thing. These were suggestions, that's all. No one who posts unintelligibly is banned from this site.