I hate chat speak. It makes the topic confusing to read and reply to. Sometimes, people may be asking for help on an important issue, but the chat speak and 1337 make it hard to read and usually, people will avoid it.
The overuse of smilies is also taking over. If you look at a few topics, you will see at least one post with more than 4 smilies in it that are not needed.
Also, when a person needs help and smilies are taking over, it makes you avoid it, so the poor person may not get the help because of the smilies.
The random PM's are one thing, but the advertising ones are worse. I have had around 5 PM's from someone who I don't even talk to, asking, "Hey, will yu join ma site? Iz rlly cool.
" It makes me delete them without reading, because they're SPAM and annoying. If it was a friend, I'd be happy to check it and join.
Random PM's are okay, I usually try to reply to them, if the sender doesn't have a bad reputation on the site for SPAM or the likes.
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REMEMBER-[/SIZE] If you want your topic to be read, type normally, be nice, don't overuse the smilies and most of all, avoid SPAM. For those who don't know, SPAM is:
Short
Pointless
Annoying
Messages
Be kind, thoughtful and non-SPAMMY when posting in anything, even if you don't like the person, or others are using chat speak. Be your own person.