Proposition 24
 

I am not looking for any debates here, they are located in the Is there a rule against illiteracy thread. this is purely a poll.

Do you think we should have a rule against LEET speech?

This will be closed. This question has already been adressed in Is there a rule against illteracy, and an aswer has been given by mods. This is basically spam (At least for the "Forum Related Stuff" forum.

Edit - On topic though, I would vote no. I have nothing against true 1337 speak, just the idiots who saw it, thought it was 'cool' and ruined it.

Hey, I just want numbers here. close as it may, I want to know exactly how much support there is for a rule like this.

But when the thread is closed, the poll will be closed automatically.

Where are you seeing these mysterious 'leet-speakers anyway? I think some of y'all are getting a little too wound up over a problem that's more easily solved by making the Ignore User function your friend than by making a new rule.

! 46r33 \/\/!+|-| |\/|45|-|, `/0|_| 411 |\|33|) +0 <41|\/| |)0\/\/|\|. +|-|3r3'5 |\|0+ 3\/3|\| |\/||_|<|-| 1337 5p34|< |-|3r3.

...Yah, I'm big on irony. I agree with Mash, you all need to calm down. There's not even much leet speak here.

After closely reading your message, I must tell you that you used improper grammar.

"There's not even much leet speak here."

Improper.

Plus, there's a difference between saying
"! 4|\/| <001"
and
"OMG I R TEH R0XX0RZ"

One is speaking properly, using symbols to replace letters. One is absolutely not thinking while you are typing.

Firstly: All you had to do was select the message. I put in a translation.

Secondly, "There's not even much leet speak here," is fine.

Even is an adverb meaning "to a full degree" which is altering the adjective much which is altering speak. Leet, in this case, is also an adjective altering speak. I could pull it apart further, but I won't.

Even if I had made a mistake there, it wouldn't matter, because it would be a very minor mistake and I've no idea why you are pointing it out in the first place. And I did use improper grammar. A run on sentence, to be exact. Didn't catch that one, though, did you. Silly grammar nazi.

And thirdly: Both of those are leet speak. If you make leet speak illegal you're making both illegal... and there's not a whole lot of either type here.

Actually, "OMG I R TEH" isn't leet, that is AOLer talk. "R0XX0RS" is AOLers butchering of leet, but it is leet.

CHRIST IN A SOMBRERO. This is one of the wankiest, pettiest, pot-calling-the-kettle-iest discussions I've ever seen on these forums outside of a "subs versus dubs" argument, and it's getting closed now before it gets any worse. Don't start a new thread for it.

Incidentally, more than a few of you who're so deeply concerned about proper grammar could stand to be more observant of your own sloppy usage. The next person who starts picking away like a freshman comp TA at someone else's posts, without provably holding anything greater than an associate's in English, is getting kicked for six months.