whos got h23?

[pninja82]

damn, thats crazy! jus noticed the "banned" on his profile! whats crazier is that when i got on this thread there was no post,when i submitted mine i saw all the others!Deev, ive been reading evildemons thread "how many times does it have to be said" its an eye opener. i really dont blame you for banning this guy,it was getting too carried away.thanks alot for your commitment to this ! sorry

[deevergote]

It's all good man. I kinda feel bad... if I hadn't beaten you to the punch with the posting, chances are he wouldn't have flipped and gotten banned.

Honestly, though... I'm just tired of dumb people, asking needless questions, and typing like they learned English yesterday (and we have MANY international members on here, most of which have a better grasp on the English language than I do myself!)

I figure, I have 2 options... seeing as I DO have the power to do something about it... ask them to type so I can understand them, or force them to leave. I guess that's why I ask them rather rudely. Either they take the hint, or they flare up like a hemorrhoid and get banned. No loss, really.

[pninja82]

Im sure it can be a hassle at times.I think it was the right thing to do especially with the name calling and language that was being tossed out. I think a big part of it is that without being face to face and seeing eye to eye in person, we dont get to see the attitude thats behind it and we take offense too easy. i admit im guilty of doing that sometimes. I know people arent try to be an ugly person to anyone but,we dont see or hear the tone thats being spoken,all we see is the words in black and white that can soetime seem cold but, theres no excuse for goin off like the way he did. i know this is off topic & i apologize.Again. thanks and I hope everything gets squared away with all the bothersome aspects you deal with.

[DoMiNiCaNoCB7]

Well regardless of all the craziness It was kind of beneficial cuz I'm doing an h23 tranny swap on my stock f22a6 and I wanted to kno and hear about how the car rides with one but hopefully tomorrow morning when I put in my shift linkage I will kno how she rides I can't wait

[TechnoDestructo]

Honestly, though... I'm just tired of dumb people, asking needless questions, and typing like they learned English yesterday (and we have MANY international members on here, most of which have a better grasp on the English language than I do myself!)

Protip: The best ways to spot non-native speakers of English are that they don't know how to cuss, and that (for speakers of non-Romance, non-Germanic languages especially) they don't know how to use articles (a, an, the) correctly. The people who learn how to do these things generally also learn how to spell and use punctuation.

If they have those two things pretty much right, and nothing else, it's because they're an idiot, not because it isn't their mother tongue.

I mean you figured this guy correctly, but if you didn't know for sure how to get it right almost every time, well, now you do.

[deevergote]

Protip: The best ways to spot non-native speakers of English are that they don't know how to cuss, and that (for speakers of non-Romance, non-Germanic languages especially) they don't know how to use articles (a, an, the) correctly. The people who learn how to do these things generally also learn how to spell and use punctuation.

If they have those two things pretty much right, and nothing else, it's because they're an idiot, not because it isn't their mother tongue.

I mean you figured this guy correctly, but if you didn't know for sure how to get it right almost every time, well, now you do.

Yeah, that's pretty much how I look at things. Non-native English speakers often say so, as they're pretty aware of their loose grasp on the language (the odd thing is, many that apologize are much easier to understand than they think!)

Cursing, slang, abbreviated words... those things are purely used by lazy English speakers (when done in English). If it's not your native language and you do those things, then you have enough of a grasp to be expected to use it effectively.


I've gotten pretty good at identifying people that type incoherently because they're lazy and/or stupid, people that have disabilities (I know of at least 2 on here that suffer from dyslexia), or people that simply don't know the language well.

We have quite a few people that speak Spanish more often than English on this site. I've grown accustomed to the "accent" in their typing.