Some people find Lamp's posting format annoying.

Some people find shrimptacodan's posting format annoying.

Some people find Hans' posting format annoying.

Some people find Tony's posting format annoying.

Some people find my posting format annoying.

You get the picture.

Hans, I thought you were the Drudge Historian, not the Drudge formatting police. If I don't like the formatitng someone uses and don't want to plonk them, something I have never done either, I just scroll on by. And that's what I recommned people do with my posts as well if they don't want to plonk me. I don't know why you are making such a big deal out of this. Yes, I sometimes find Lamp's and Shrimp's formatting annoying just as I sometimes find your formatting annoying, and if I'm not in the mood to deal with it, I just scroll on by. I'm less likely to find Tony's formatting annoying because we suffer from the same formatting flaw according to some aka over use of blockquotes.

Gal, I believe you recently asked if I was looking to be a "big fish in a small pond."
Nope.

No, that wasn't me. I think it was Twin.

#38 | Posted by truthhurts

Hells bells, don't even get me started on your formatting style. :-)

"Gal, I'm just looking for those of us on the left side of the aisle to respect the readers of this site."

I don't think Lamp, Shrimp, you, Tony, Truth or I mean any disrespect with our formatting style.

How do you like my formatting Style?
#172 | Posted by truthhurts

It is certainly distinct.

The device has yet to be invented that can measure the stupidity of a formatting argument
Posted by truthhurts

Formatting discussions abound on poetry forums. Well, on poetry forums that discuss/critic free verse. Where do the linebreaks go? The stanza breaks? What is the significance of that linebreak? Would breaking the line here be better--more subtle, less subtle, more provocative, less unexpected?

"I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out." Oscar Wilde

Poets can do that will linebreaks too. But I digress.

#178 Which reminds me of time in the distant past on this board when I used to post a lot of poetry. There was even one poster, whose name I can't recall, who I used to have dueling poetry contests with. I'd post a poem, then he'd post a poem, then I'd post another poem in response, and so on and so forth. Some people found that mighty annoying, but since RCade never said anything about it, I didn't give a damn. Reminiscent of one of Rhett Butler's famound lines from Gone with the Wind: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.: Good times, good times. But now I know we live in much more serious times. Deadly serious times. Vulgar times. I actually don't see Lamp and Hans as being on different sides in the larger debate, and that's the sad, wasteful part about all of this formatting brouhaha, IMHO.

Again, just my 2 cents.

Oh thanks gal, now Hans and Lamp are gonna have a multiple thread argument over whose longfellow is bigger!
#179 | Posted by truthhurts

Oh sheet. I just hit the Offensive Flag for that post rather than the Funny Flag. Sorry, RCade. My bad.