They are pretty standard, especially “LF” on a baseball site.

I’m thinking more along the lines of “yr” for “your,” or “yrs” for “years,” or anything else that trips up a reader for no real reason.

Fuck the Heck

Thanks, anonymous.

Catsmeat, another good example of an unnecessary abbreviation is “srsly.”

That is the first time you have made me laugh anonymous.

Eric seems to be pretty consistent in pointing out when a FanPost would be more appropriate as a FanShot. I would add “and vice versa” to the previous sentence but, uh, I have not actually seen that situation occur.

FanShots should be used for quick thoughts, links, images, videos and quotes. Anything shorter than a couple of paragraphs should go here.

FanPosts are the community equivalent of front page posts. If you don’t think what you’re writing would be suitable to publish on the front page, you probably shouldn’t write it. This isn’t to say that your style or approach has to be consistent with what we put on the front page, but the cogency, length and attention to detail certainly should be.

There are plenty of times during games when caps or exclamation points might be warranted. (And I’m sure I’ve printed plenty of them myself during games.)

But in all honesty, if game threads were filled with comments that read like your example above, I might stop coming here entirely.

is the level of cowardice between the two communities, with BBVers having it in far greater abundance, specifically with the older members. there are also a lot more space balls references here.

I prefer “hahaha.”

Or maybe even, “That made me laugh out loud/quietly to myself.”

But I’m open to suggestions here. I just hate the pervasive el-oh-el (so much that I can’t even bring myself to type it).

+1 is OK, although it could easily get overused/tired. So watch out for that.

you could click the Actions button and actually give a +1.

I’m basically too lazy to type a reply that would either funny or relevant.

what I meant was absolutely no sega with harrison ford

(It begun with a bloody “s”!)

Beautiful.
Sweet avatar btw.

But only when appropriate, and by that I mean only when it is totally inappropriate.

Why is it that I think I’ve hit the nail on the head when I think to myself that the one word that would accurately describe you would be: Schadenfreude.

I look forward to more of your comments come baseball season. It’s at this point that I would insert an emoticon, however, I’m trying to live up to AA standards. Good day friend.