Dear ProU Blogger

The vast majority of you are articulate, well spoken, and grammatically correct.  However, there’s a decent amount of people who feel the need to contribute their unintelligence to the world.  This is not helpful, just so you know.  I am going to help you by giving a few tips, pointers, and rules.  If you continue to break these rules, I will quite simply delete the most offensive (in terms of language usage, misspellings, and overall lack of grammatical correctness) blog.

• ALL CAPS ARE STUPID
  • If you type in all caps, many people on this site will ignore the entire point of your post.  As readership is very important for the BfP scholarship (many times, the outcome is decided by the number of reads you receive), you want people to see your article, read it, reply to it, and rate it.  Ratings for all caps posts tend to be low, they never make it to the front page, and I enjoy unpublishing them so that they cannot be read until they're fixed.
• AlTeRnAtInG cApS aRe StUpId
  • The same as all caps, only less.  It takes 2x as long to type like this, and it's quite hard to read.  I like to unpublish these posts, too.
• Making stuff up is only for school.
  • When you make stuff up and get called on it, it makes you look stupid.  On the other hand, it can be good to get called on it.  Getting called on it typically results in a longer argument within the comments, and comments equal points.  So, there's that.  It is still better to have a good argument than a bad one, so read up on your subject matter a little.
• Bad spellign is stoopid.
  • If you spell eveything in your post with tearable spellin, no 1 is gonna wanna reed it.  Its unkool.  Don do it, biatch.  U loose out on reeders and taht makes it so you cant win.
• Bad grammer is much worser than bad spelling.
  • For those you that don't can't use grammar good, I would like you to not post no more.  Its terrible to have to have to read blogs where the user cannot coherently use grammar, thus making me less wanting to read there blogs.
• Punctuate damnit?
  • If you dont know where the period key is you are slightly behind the times  If you dont know where the comma or question mark or exclamation point are either stop typing and learn to use these rather important things quickly  You make reading posts a chore
• capital letters Are for Losers
  • if you type your post in all lowercase letters, you once again demonstrate your ineptitude at a keyboard, and thus give reason to why you shouldn't be going to college to being with.  start with learning the basics, capital letters for the first word in a sentence.  They're good.
  • Now, if you Seem to type and just CApitalize ranDom letters it can be a chore to reAd Your post because yOU seem stupid To me.  Please learn to jut Capitalize the first letters in proper nouns and the first letter of the First lettEr of the FIrst worD in a SEntence.
• Accept Criticism from the A-Team
  • Often times when I will unpublish a post due to stupid content, I will receive hate mail telling me that the message and the format in which it was written should be separate.  I get messages telling me to republish the post or they'll get mad.  Nope, sorry.  If I unpublish your post, you damn well better correct it before bugging me and insulting my intelligence.  90% of the time, I will just comment on your blog with a corrected version and give you 48 hours to correct yours.

In the end, I'd like to extend a hand to anyone who cannot type, read, write, learn.  If you need some time to correct your mistakes, I will unpublish your blog and be quite content with myself.

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