I noticed this on Baendra's immortal comments in the Premium Battlefield:

Sun May 23 13:18:55 2004 by 'Phaelim' at level 47 (271 hrs):
Another person who doesn't make use of the shift key or punctuation.


Is this really very fair at all? A snippet of the conversation in the cf chatroom:

<Zoder> Whatta prick
<Data57> hehe
<Zoder> Maybe he doesn't have a shift key on his keyboard
<Zoder> ANd that's OOC matters
<Gld> Whether or not I use the shift key is part of my character's rp.
<harikrish__> mine too
<Gld> If he isn't supposed to have a firm grasp on the 'common language', I don't use the shift key to put an emphasis on that.
<Gihnral> I have to agree with GLD
<Gld> I had a Phaelim follower planned as one of my future characters. Think I'm going to scrap that of my list.
<Gihnral> grammar and punctuation, ect, is about the only way to get speech patterns, tone, ect across on a text based game
<Gld> Doesn't sound like an Imm I'd want to interact with.

I know the DALnet room isn't typically a place you folks have much respect for, but the comments here seem to be pretty valid.

Thoughts?

"But that was in another country. And besides, the wench is dead."