My tripod vibrates a lot with my view camera

[rguinter]

What is gained by promoting the use of poor grammar and writing? If you are not smart enough to follow the basic rules it is no wonder you cannot figure out an easy way to dampen tripod vibration.

Buy a Gitzo. Buy a Ries. Buy something made to handle the task at hand.

Dakota: Why pick on the OP this way so harshly? Is this really in the spirit of the forum?

Bob G.

[Greg Miller]

there is really no explicit need to capitalize anything on an informal forum such as this. after all... we are not submitting a doctoral thesis or editorial manuscript where the rules of capitalization must be enforced... are we?

my opinion. bob g.

I'm going to disagree about this. It isn't about formality. It is about readability, and being courteous to those who will read the thread. The first rule you learn in the romantic languages is you capitalize the first letter of a sentence and you end the sentence with a punctuation mark. If someone can't make the effort to do only that, then why should anyone else take the trouble to read their remark? How many people read the average thread? If it is as little as fifty, that still means one person's laziness or lack of courtesy affects 50 other people. Even it the affect is minimal it is still discourteous. And in this entire forum, everyone seems to be able to manage this on their own except for maybe one habitual abuser. Speaking for American's, anyone who made it past the first grade, should already be in the habit of doing this. I can't imagine this is too much to ask, regardless of the level informality. I'll make exceptions for the disabled and persons whose native languages uses very different rules of grammar (which would cover the OP of this thread).

[Sirius Glass]

I agree. Lack of capitalization and punctuation shows a contempt for the readers.

Steve

[John Koehrer]

I'm going to disagree about this. It isn't about formality. It is about readability, and being courteous to those who will read the thread. The first rule you learn in the romantic languages is you capitalize the first letter of a sentence and you end the sentence with a punctuation mark. If someone can't make the effort to do only that, then why should anyone else take the trouble to read their remark? How many people read the average thread? If it is as little as fifty, that still means one person's laziness or lack of courtesy affects 50 other people. Even it the affect is minimal it is still discourteous. And in this entire forum, everyone seems to be able to manage this on their own except for maybe one habitual abuser. Speaking for American's, anyone who made it past the first grade, should already be in the habit of doing this. I can't imagine this is too much to ask, regardless of the level informality. I'll make exceptions for the disabled and persons whose native languages uses very different rules of grammar (which would cover the OP of this thread).

You sir, are not a product of the current, can't hurt anybody's feelings, sorry you can't read or write, educational system!

[mandoman7]

Dropped capitalization, dropped pants, shirt-tail out, 3 day growth of beard, holes in the jeans, carefully mussed hair. Its what passes for individuality today.

[Greg Miller]

You sir, are not a product of the current, can't hurt anybody's feelings, sorry you can't read or write, educational system!

Thank you. I gladly accept that.

I also wanted to add that on a forum like this, where you read post after post with people obsessing over details and minutia, that one would expect people to care about the most basic elements of language.

[Greg Miller]

Dropped capitalization, dropped pants, shirt-tail out, 3 day growth of beard, holes in the jeans, carefully mussed hair. Its what passes for individuality today.

Pants on the ground, pants on the ground. Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground

[Gem Singer]

Since when is it a sin to make a typo, misspell a word, ask a stupid question, or post an improper or inaccurate response on this forum?

It's being done right here on this thread.

[jim kitchen]

Take the batteries out...

Now that's funny...

jim k

[Brian Ellis]

as a human factors specialist, a.k.a., ergonomist, i've investigated hundreds, perhaps as many as a thousand, personal injuries from keyboard use and other repetitive occupational activities. many were programmers who worked on keyboards their entire day, every-day, with hobbies at night that included additional keyboard work.

my recommendation has always been to avoid using the shift key for these people. and to use alternative tools such as split-keyboards when the injury process is exacerbated by keyboard use.

there is really no explicit need to capitalize anything on an informal forum such as this. after all... we are not submitting a doctoral thesis or editorial manuscript where the rules of capitalization must be enforced... are we?

my opinion. bob g.

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