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24 Nov 2011 08:21 AM  
Thing 1: I didn't just remove your post, I removed another hostile post as well. It wasn't about censoring you personally, it was about doing my job and moderating this forum.

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another Another one of my posts get gets wiped off. im I'm not happy with this. its It's ok for your long time fans to post what they want but i I cant can't. i I dont don't think i I will bother with your stupid wikki wiki now as most of anything i I put onthere on there will be taken off by you anyway. thisis This is so unfare unfair on us new peple people here.

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Believe me, Harry, I encourage new people to post here. And sometimes unfair things happen and I try my best to correct them. But there is nothing unfair happening here. Numerous people have very politely pointed out to you how your style of writing comes across. A few people have pointed it out not quite so politely, and I have removed all of those impolite posts that I am aware of.

Please, give me some reason to believe you are not a troll.  Get yourself a browser like Firefox or Chrome that has spell check built into it, and every time you see a word with red squiggles under it just right click on it and at least look at the corrections. Capitalize the first letter of your sentences. Please, do *something* to show a little effort.
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01 Dec 2011 04:26 AM  

ive been away on a holiday and have just seen what you have put in your last post. why shud i get a new thing like firefox and a spell check thing just to make sure every thing is spelt rite on every post i make here. i dont have to do that on other message borsd i use all the time. your being just to strikt with people. i have no problem reding wot i type here and my friends dontr either so what is your problem. i rite like this in school and dont get any thing sed to me and i get good grades to.

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01 Dec 2011 05:23 AM  
Dude, you don't have to do anything you don't want to. On the other hand, when you write like that you come across as either completely illiterate or else a troll, and nobody is likely to take you seriously at all. That's your choice.
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01 Dec 2011 07:57 AM  
Harry -

Didn't you say in a post to Baz that you were probably older than he was, and resorted to calling him a boy? And now you're stating that you're in school and that you use this kind of atrocious spelling and grammar all the time?

And you state that you get away with it?

My god above, no wonder the states is going to hell in a hand basket if teachers are allowing the English language to degrade in such a way that this kind of spelling and grammar is not only accepted but appears to be encouraged.

I can see your friends not minding, since clearly they are like minded and, if what you are saying is true, that lazy that they can't take the time to spell even the simplest of words and phrases.

I pity the new generation. Growing up fat and lazy and clearly stupid.

If people put as much effort into learning a new language and studying as they put into using Netspeak and butchering the English language, the next generation could be something wonderful.

Instead we get examples like this.

Again, no wonder not only the states but the world is going to hell on a bullet train.
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01 Dec 2011 09:39 AM  

Despite the fact that I've done (all) the work on the wiki, I don't mind other people chipping in. As long as I don't have to do a lot of editing to clean up after them. Note that I'm not bashing you specifically, Harry - I'm just making a general note. I have an English degree, so I'm a bit anal about spelling and grammar, and I want the wiki to look the best it can, which is why I'm constantly making improvements and corrections. I'm hardly perfect myself; this thing is huge (92 pages and counting), so there are bound to be a few typos and such around, but I do make an effort to find and fix them when I can. All I ask is that anyone else who wishes to contribute make the same effort.

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13 Dec 2011 08:45 PM  
In addition to adding Time Nomads, Dark Carnival, and Moon Fate, I've made a bunch of fixes and improvements to various other pages:

Fixed the double-spacing on some of the pages (for some reason, some pages ignore the carriage return after a
tag, while others don't - I can't figure out why);

Went over all the OL pages, as well as the timelines (added links, fixed some broken links, did some minor editing);

Reorganized the Traderisms page so that the sayings are now grouped into rough categories (I say "rough" because most of them are Miscellaneous, but it still looks a lot better now, IMO);

Fixed some stuff on the Gateways page due to new info;

And probably a few other things I forgot about. It never ceases to amaze me that, despite how hard I try to stay on top of things, I continue to find small errors and such that need fixing. Ah well... it keeps me on my toes.
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13 Dec 2011 09:16 PM  
Well, and Kerrick also went through and added links to Kindle and Graphic Audio versions of a ton of books in The Books section, which was no small feat. I truly appreciate all the effort that you have put into the content on this site.
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05 Jan 2012 08:22 PM  
Always glad to help.

I've (finally) added Shockscape, Twilight Children, and Rider, Reaper to the wiki. I had the first two done last weekend, but I caught a serious case of apathy syndrome and put off doing the last one until today. Nothing really notable elsewhere, except for some stuff on the Gateways page (new notes and updated information).
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05 Feb 2012 04:02 PM  
I've added Road Wars, Shadowfall, and Ground Zero. Only 18 more books until I'm caught up (not counting the new stuff)!
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