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Etiquette Q: Grammar/Capitalization (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by angrylittlekitty@lemmy.one to c/chat

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Only after living here in Lemmyville where people still practice this civility did I realize that I've gotten in the bad habit of not capitalizing my sentences properly and now feel like the child raised by wolves now having tea with ye townsfolk.

I believe Reddit is to blame... because everything bad comes from them right?

Full transparency I was mostly in lurk/comment mode vs post and never cared about karma. No kids to have trained me this way. I swipe my keyboard which doesn't do capitalization.

My working hypothesis is that with reportedly 400m users, quantity and speed to grab karma is more important than taking time to thoughtfully compose something. Its like 24/7 monkey with a gun redditing.

And like me, even if you're not "playing" the culture still rubs off on you.

So now i'm wondering does this even matter or am I just over thinking this (wouldn't be the first time).

Is formatting more important than the contribution? Because it just took me 5 mins to type this all out nicely and think i'll going to be limited in what I can contribute if every post takes this long 🤣

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[–] Deebster 4 points 2 years ago

I think when you're communicating, it's good etiquette to make sure people can read your post easily - your five minutes could save hundreds or thousands of people time.

That said, capitalisation isn't required, as long as it's clear. I think line breaks are more important.

I do take it as a signal that the writer might be worth listening to if they've bothered to take the care to get their thoughts and fingers in order - as opposed to some stream of conscious babble that you can read multiple times and still not sure if you've understood it.

I used to use Swype and now I use Gboard and both do capitalisation and other handy things like double space to end a sentence - maybe check your settings.