New Posting Rules!!

cidchase

Active Member
Actually just copied from the Atlas forum, I couldn't resist it: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I got this off another board, but thought you would enjoy.
Tips for writing posts.

1... Avoid alliteration. Always.
2... Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3... Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4... Employ the vernacular.
5... Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6... Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7... It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8... Contractions aren't necessary
9... Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10.. One should never generalize.
11.. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
12.. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13.. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary;
it's highly superfluous.
14.. Profanity sucks.
15.. Be more or less specific.
16.. Understatement is always best.
17.. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
18.. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19.. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20.. The passive voice is to be avoided.
21.. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
22.. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
23.. Who needs rhetorical questions?

Stolen from an e-mail credited to Anonymous
:D :D :D
 

MCL_RDG

Member
Guilty/Not Guilty...

Guilty/Not Guilty of all the above!

I'd like to take the time to go thru each item and elaborate but I seem to do that as a "matter of fact" with each thread I post or response I offer.

Thank you for the wonderful opportunity.

Mark

P.S. This has to be the "short list"- there's so much more, not that I'm speaking from experience or anything
:eek: :D :D :D
 
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