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[mighty_joe_young]

Yes i understand you want to keep SMF free , i was only thinking about the futture of SMF ,its a great forum , don`t forget you have to take into account the running costs . If you can run this forum on peanuts good luck to you my friend .


Anyway i well end this topic , like you say ,you don`t give a monkeys about my views .

Regards 

[kat]

I/we most certainly DO give a monkey's about your views.

In this case, however, you've been told that what you're proposing won't happen.

Yet, you argue (That's a bit strong. I hope you know what I mean, really) about it.

I'm just trying to say that it's not worth discussing, coz things ain't gonna change, with regard to that.

[aishaweb]

Completely off-topic, but, mighty_joe_young, could you please put the space after the comma and not before.  Especially if you're going to write a book.   

[mighty_joe_young]

That is fair comment , I am not  argueing with anybody , and do not wish to argue with anybody

Regards

[aishaweb]

Completely off-topic, but, mighty_joe_young, could you please put the space after the comma and not before.  Especially if you're going to write a book.   

[mighty_joe_young]

Completely off-topic, but, mighty_joe_young, could you please put the space after the comma and not before.  Especially if you're going to write a book.   

My god you allways get them Lol were do these people come from ,anyway i am going ,Here read this if you think spelling is important

Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid -- aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was important.



Regards

[Kindred]

that piece of junk has been going around for a long time.... and it is BS.

I am an English teacher (amongst other things) and I am used to dealing with horrendous spelling mistakes... but I have to actively TRY to read that junk. More importantly, the majority of our forum community will NOT be able to read that because they are not native English readers/speakers, so their brains will not make those connections.

Spelling is important. Punctuation is important. Using proper rules for your language is important because the ones who DON'T use those rules are either lazy or don't care enough to TRY to be comprehensible. (and before you bring up issues like dyslexia, let me say that several admins on one of my forums are dyslexic and they ACTIVELY work to make sure that their posts are comprehensible.


Thing is... I read your suggestions. I responded to them and indicated why they were not a reasonable direction for this project. However, you seem to think that if you repeat it enough, the answer will change.
If we started paying for the ownership of mods, then we WOULD run out of money. We'd also have to support those mods (and believe me, we have a full team that works on supporting the existing product without even getting into mods!)

No matter what you or the others think, in 5 years, we'll still be here, providing a great, FREE, forum software.
(and no, most of the community members would *NOT* be interested if SMF was to go paid... and for those who want to pay, as I have already said, we have the charter membership to thank those who make at $50 donation.)

[flapjack]

[snip] and for those who want to pay, as I have alreayd said, we have the charter membership to thank those who make at $50 donation.)

gotcha!

[Kindred]

lol...   yeah, mistypes happen, even to English teachers.   I at least try to avoid (and correct) my errors.

[Oya]

the flip side, though, is that there are people who would be willing to pay a modest amount - say $25 - for a more fully featured solution and/or more reliable support - whatever else you care to say about the support team, and this isn't meant as an insult so please dont try taking it as one, is that where they're volunteers there is a naturally lower expectation on both sides

if you have someone who is willing to pay for support and someone who is willing to be paid to provide timely support, it should be available as an option, and ideally more rigorous than the current arrangements

as youve said youself, charter membership is a service given in thanks for a donation; there simply isnt the motivation to complete the tasks so quickly or enthusiastically as would be there in the event of paid support

and contrary to your statements, you can have paid support options and still be a free, open source project - e.g. ubuntu

[mighty_joe_young]

I am sorry Kindred there or thousands of people in this world that do have alot of problems with there spelling ,etc .I myself run a good web forum ,and there or people that do come on my forum , very clever people that do have trouble spelling . I myself do have alot of trouble spelling not because i am stupied , but in my case due to a bad head injurey many years ago.

Ok maybe i did go on alittle , to try and get my point across , i cant see the true logic in your view/s , But this is your forum and i must respect your views , even though i do not agree with all of your views .

Regards

Peter 

Anyway before i end up getting myself a ban ,i well say no more on this matter .

[Kindred]

meh....   I don't ban people just for disagreeing with me.


and I never said that misspelling indicates stupidity (or the corollary, that proper spelling indicates intelligence) - because neither is true. I said that it (and I will add the word, usually) indicates either laziness or a lack of interest. (I'll also add, sometimes it just indicates that too much fast-speed-typing.)