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Paddle2See · 2011-11-14 11:14:27

Scratch is well-known as a welcoming and friendly place to be - and we very much want that to continue! Let's review a couple of things we can all do to help with this:

Quality Posts
Make sure your posts are helping the original poster. Before you press the "Submit" button, ask yourself these questions:

1) Is this post on-topic?
2) Is this post giving helpful information?
3) Is this post friendly?

If your post doesn't measure up, then perhaps you should work on it some more until it does...or don't post it at all.

Grammar and Spelling
Grammar and Spelling are not important unless they get in the way of communication. If a post is confusing - it's not friendly to mock it. Instead, ask for clarification. It's fine to politely correct spelling and grammar errors that you see on a thread - but don't make it the focus of your post. Do your best to help the original poster achieve what they are looking for.

For more posting information, see the Guidelines for the Miscellaneous Forum

Scratch On!

DarkerWorld · 2011-11-14 11:16:11

About the grammar and spelling, if you ask them what they meant, and you can't understand what they reply... what do you do?

CheeseMunchy · 2011-11-14 11:16:45

Ya, I see a lot of wrong grammar. hmm

CheeseMunchy · 2011-11-14 11:20:08

Sticky.

Is this post on topic?: no
Is this post giving helpful information?: not really
Is this post friendly?: yes

good grammer?: yes
lol

stevetheipad · 2011-11-14 11:21:04

Good follow-up topic. I made a topic about being positive when posting here: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=77570

I've kept it in the New Scratchers section since its something new Scratchers sometimes need some reminders of.

schnrfl · 2011-11-14 11:21:10

CheeseMunchy wrote:
Ya, I see a lot of wrong grammar.

probably just a typo
but uh
that servbot incident
i don't think you could get a lot of clarification from that ._.

Paddle2See · 2011-11-14 11:23:25

DarkerWorld wrote:
About the grammar and spelling, if you ask them what they meant, and you can't understand what they reply... what do you do?

I think at that point, you have done your best to help them, and it isn't working out. So just don't respond back.

Andres-Vander · 2011-11-14 11:41:57

What if people keep bringing things up even after a moderator or administrator has told people to get back on topic? Like in the LGBT topic, the westboro thing keeps rearing its head (or used to, I hope it's died down by now)

maxskywalker · 2011-11-14 11:49:45

This is just a copy of the Guidelines thing. Do we really need two threads of the same thing (funny, this is what many topics get closed because of)?

rabbit1131 · 2011-11-14 11:55:38

maxskywalker wrote:
This is just a copy of the Guidelines thing. Do we really need two threads of the same thing (funny, this is what many topics get closed because of)?

cheddargirl · 2011-11-14 11:57:10

maxskywalker wrote:
This is just a copy of the Guidelines thing. Do we really need two threads of the same thing (funny, this is what many topics get closed because of)?

Sometimes it's a specific issue that might be a source of problem, so there might be another thread in supplement to the Guidelines. For example, a while back, people were kind of posting pretty mean things on topics they could care less about and had nothing to contribute, and there was a sticky thread addressing that (it has now since been removed when the issue died down, although it could come back if the problem resurfaces again).

werdna123 · 2011-11-14 13:47:28

WindowsExplorer wrote:
Cool!!! 11th post on a new stickied topic!

This is kinda ironic because:

1) Is this post on-topic? Nope
2) Is this post giving helpful information? Nope
3) Is this post friendly? Well, it's not unfriendly.

tongue

Anyway, just curious: Is this topic based off anything. Like, often you make stickies because of something happening like people getting off topic lots or whatever. Is this based off anything in particular like that?

CylonToast · 2011-11-14 14:44:08

I agree, this should be stickied!

CheeseMunchy · 2011-11-14 14:45:00

CylonToast wrote:
I agree, this should be stickied!

It is?

ToxicQuillz · 2011-11-14 14:57:01

Very helpful for new Scratchers. big_smile

Paddle2See · 2011-11-14 15:28:55

werdna123 wrote:
WindowsExplorer wrote:
Cool!!! 11th post on a new stickied topic!
This is kinda ironic because:

1) Is this post on-topic? Nope
2) Is this post giving helpful information? Nope
3) Is this post friendly? Well, it's not unfriendly.

Anyway, just curious: Is this topic based off anything. Like, often you make stickies because of something happening like people getting off topic lots or whatever. Is this based off anything in particular like that?

Yes, very ironic! And exactly the kind of thing we are trying to prevent hmm

As for whether this was based off anything: yes, kind of. There was an incident the other day where a very cryptic new poster showed up on this forum and some of the responses were, shall we say, less than welcoming. So that was kind of the trigger that maybe we could all use a refresher class in some of the basics.

Andres-Vander wrote:
What if people keep bringing things up even after a moderator or administrator has told people to get back on topic? Like in the LGBT topic, the westboro thing keeps rearing its head (or used to, I hope it's died down by now)

Perhaps a re-quote of the moderator post would help remind them that they were going off-topic again. If the problem continued, a report to the moderators would be helpful so they can take action.

maxskywalker wrote:
This is just a copy of the Guidelines thing. Do we really need two threads of the same thing (funny, this is what many topics get closed because of)?

I see this more as a temporary reminder of some of the basics to address some specific problems I'm seeing. It's not intended to take the place of the Guidelines. I'm probably not going to leave it stickied for all that long. Keep your eyes out for other temporary spot-lighted topics smile

ProgrammingPro01 · 2011-11-14 15:47:09

Very nice post, Paddle.

Animeboy975 · 2011-11-14 15:50:08

ToxicQuillz wrote:
Very helpful for new Scratchers.

This.

Servine · 2011-11-14 16:00:32

Thanks! This encouraged me to focus a bit more on what I write.

I think we ALL need a reminder sometimes!

Though, One can still get angry with the 60 second rule O_O

sportsdude6 · 2011-11-14 17:33:26

A lot of people dont use correct grammar.
And about quality posts-is a non-quality post spam?

veggieman001 · 2011-11-14 17:42:56

sportsdude6 wrote:
A lot of people dont use correct grammar.
And about quality posts-is a non-quality post spam?

but there's no problem with not correct grammar ;_;

CheeseMunchy · 2011-11-14 17:48:39

veggieman001 wrote:
sportsdude6 wrote:
A lot of people dont use correct grammar.
And about quality posts-is a non-quality post spam?
but there's no problem with not correct grammar ;_;

lol Yes there is.

Wickimen · 2011-11-14 17:50:01

CheeseMunchy wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
sportsdude6 wrote:
A lot of people dont use correct grammar.
And about quality posts-is a non-quality post spam?
but there's no problem with not correct grammar ;_;
Yes there is.

Not if it's readable
But it irks me when people are like "ozmg kwjorp02 lik so iwe wjosdie at the mal andneie swiq3 weoir4qwnjiou hahahas"

schnrfl · 2011-11-14 17:53:22

veggieman001 wrote:
sportsdude6 wrote:
A lot of people dont use correct grammar.
And about quality posts-is a non-quality post spam?
but there's no problem with not correct grammar ;_;

but us regular miscers
we usually use correct grammer
amirite

coinman · 2011-11-14 17:54:32

i agree.

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