- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Although I do admit my grammar and spelling are not always perfect, but when its compared to some of the other posts here on the Bnet forums, my writing looks like it was written by an English professor. My suggestion to help fix this problem, and actually force users to write better would be to take on the facepunch forums (the official Garry's mod forum) method which seems to scan the post, looking at sentence structure and if it passes some sort of readability test, you get "points", which are displayed by your alias. However, if the post is deemed unreadable, you loose points. When too many points are lost, you get a temporary ban (12-24 hrs) from the forums. I am not sure how this forum tool works, but I am sure that the creator of the facepunch forums would be more than happy on sharing their method. If this doesn't work, there could be a vote tool which would allow users to vote on the legibility of the post on a scale of 1-10, which if the number goes below a certain level, a ninja could go check it out, but this is highly impractical.
I don't mean to insult anyone's intelligence, but I think this site would help a few people out with grammar, along with Google toolbar for the spell check feature (which has become a habit to check my spelling before I submit anything).
Also, is this post in the right area? If not, I apologize.
[Edited on 07.21.2007 10:58 PM PDT]