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This isn't a HUGE deal in the grand scheme of things but....

Why in the hell are more and more posters these days, doing so with huge walls of text? I mean word after word, after word, after word.... many times with no coherent sentence structure, grammar, or even an ounce of punctuation. Or God forbid, a freakin' paragraph. Not to mention the utter dis-regard for using their, there and they're, too and to or here and hear in their correct context. If all of us didn't have spell check and auto-correct, I'd hate to see some of the posts around here.

Look.... I understand that I'm a REALLY old fart who has been out of high school longer than most of you young guys have been alive. I get it that teaching and grading methods have changed drastically over the years. In today's day and age.... it's MUCH more important to give participation trophies and pats on the back, than actually give a failing grade for poor performance. I can't tell you how many arguments I had in parent - teacher conferences about how things were WAY too easy for my girls. (notice the correct use of too/to there?)

I had a creative writing class my senior year in high school that was probably the toughest class I've ever had. We were required to write a single page paper every day in class. If it had ZERO mistakes, you received an A on the paper. However, If it had but a SINGLE error including a misspelled word, the wrong use of there, their, they're, to, too, here or hear.... a run on sentence, a punctuation error or yes.... the incorrect use of PARAGRAPHS, you received an F on the paper. Let me tell you.... it didn't take very long to learn how to write correctly.

I get it that not many of us really care how we come across or "look" when we post comments on line. I mean hell.... none of us know each other, what we say and do on line is really irrelevant as well right?. And.... like the title of this post says, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't matter in the least.

To those of you who post in walls and walls of text.... please do the rest of us a favor.... Hit the ENTER key every now and then. Heck, between thoughts would be a good start. It will make your posts MUCH easier to read. Especially when you start to get older and your eyes start to go, like me.

I don't post here or anywhere much anymore. Like I said.... I'm getting pretty old and my health and eyes are failing. I can hardly see to type on my keyboard. A post like this.... I could bang out in five or MAYBE ten minutes a couple of years ago. Right now.... I'm pushing almost an hour. I need to have my screen zoomed to between 250%-300% most of the time to even see it. When things are written in normal paragraphs, it's not all that difficult to follow the post and get what's being said. When you're zoomed that much and try reading a huge wall of text.... well, it's difficult to say the least.

Even before my eyes started really getting bad, it was difficult to navigate walls of text. Whether it's the use of smart phones for everything these days, or just plain lazyness.... it doesn't matter. there are plenty of us who hate it and frankly.... refuse to even try and read it.

Rant over....

Mods.... feel free to delete this post if you feel it's in bad taste, I understand that me being overly curmudgeonly isn't necessarily worthy of a Fanpost. I just felt the need to rant a bit.... Thanks.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors.