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…just an idle question. But how old are you? I don’t want to quash your enthusiasm for posting by bashing on your grammar. That’s essentially what Procton is pointing out. And he’s mostly correct…just not very gentle in how he’s pointed it out for you.

Bottom line: Your enthusiasm is great. Your points are valid commentary from a fan like any other. They’re just a little hard to read.

1. Carolina is a proper noun, and, as such, it should be capitalized.
2, 3, 4. The proper spelling and capitalization of the former Atlanta QB’s name is Michael Vick.
5, 6, 7. The proper capitalization and spacing of the NFL’s championship game is the Super Bowl.

without being condescending. I try not to indulge my instinctual urges to correct people’s grammar because A) I make mistakes too, and B) content and ideas are vastly more important than the method of delivery.

So while I don’t find any value in arguing alongside MP that capitalization matters (it doesn’t), I will say that having just the basics of capitalization, punctuation and spelling covered gives you some credibility that you can at least string together coherent thoughts, and your ideas should be taken seriously. So if you’d said “Our defense was slow to the ball last year, giving up 20.3 points per game, and Meeks’ increased emphasis on speed to the ball will help improve our scoring defense this season,” then you would have a series of people arguing for or against that salient point. But instead, we’re talking about how you don’t separate your sentences with spaces, and we can’t really figure out what you’re saying.

So, put simply, if you put 10 minutes into writing a post in order to get your ideas out there, elicit some feedback and generate discussion, why not put in 11 minutes instead and make sure what you’ve written is comprehensible?

Also, none of us are fans of personal attacks on this blog. Name-calling and the like have historically not been tolerated by Jaxon, and I’d expect that he’d take some offense to the tone of this latest comment.

Like NSpice said, your enthusiasm is great, and I expect your actual football-related ideas will be a welcome addition to the blog. But you should think about editing your posts a bit more, and sheathing the daggers in your response to comments.

Please make your points without the name calling. MP has never claimed to be a sportswriter (none of us have for that matter) but he makes well thought out and clear points using proper grammer as much as possible. When you use bad grammer or ‘text’ language as I call it it makes it harder to understand what you are saying, that was his only point. Calling people ‘dumb’ is counter-productive and will NOT stand for long on this blog. Please stop the name-calling, double check your work and PLEASE use the spell checker built into the software. Let me remind you of the community guidelines you agreed to when joining this blog:

This blog is intended for a community of NFL football fans with obvious leanings to the Carolina Panthers. Please refrain from excessive profanity and hate-speak to other members. Also, lets stay on topic and avoid threads related to non-sport issues, in particular politics and religion. It is also common courtesy when referencing other peoples work to provide a link. Anyone who cannot follow these simple rules may or may not be given a warning before being banned.

when a football blog just gets “too personal”

guess I should commend you for your apology, I’m sure that took a lot.

You guys are highly entertaining over here, at least stuff like this keeps the offseason from getting too boring, doesn’t it?

Our comments are intended simply to help you get your point across. We want to hear what everyone has to say and don’t expect perfect grammer as we all have misspellings, etc…fat fingers on a tiny keyboard. Its when we can’t understand what you are trying to say is when readers get frustrated.

Thanks again and as always…Go Panthers!

I was never intending to be mean…the “bro” in the original post was a friendly aside, rather than a demeaning thing. Just hoped if you had thoughts to contribute you could try your best to make them as accessible to all as possible. One futher point that would help: a space (or even two) after your periods to separate sentences. :)

Yeah, it can.