To resort to insulting another commenter’s spelling shows a lack of debating

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

To resort to insulting another commenter’s spelling shows a lack of debating skills. Especially after the commenter mentioned his own concerns about his spelling suggesting he was worried about someone doing exactly what you did! Shows a complete lack of empathy for a 14 year old who has shown enough interest in politics and the future of his country to comment here.

Stick to the content of the argument as it really lowers the debate when commenter’s bring grammar and spelling into an argument. We can all read a comment for ourselves and decide if the person writing is worth listening to or not without others pointing out what may or may no be wrong with a comment for us!

But just to show how pedantic and petty I could be with your poorly written comments.

1st you lower case your name, should have the first letter of each name upper case. That’s a very childish mistake.

2nd You don’t use capitals at all (barely any) in your comments. You’ve made 46 comments on my site and I can count on two hands the number of capital letters used within them!

3rd your comments tend to be very small and have no real content, they don’t offer an actual argument. They are in the format:

“well at least try the tories, forget torries they are as bad as labour.”

It adds nothing to a debate and that one didn’t actually make any sense.

4th on the rare occasions you type more than one line you don’t appear to understand the concept of a paragraph (push the enter key twice) to make reading your comments easier rather than one long blurrrrrrr of text.

Take this comment from you:

“well its mostly immigrants that are bleeding us dry, the schools, the hospitals, if turkey join the eec and the other eastern block country trying to join, we will never cope, dont believe all this spin about cancer treatment in 7 days, it took me 5 weeks, in the waiting room there was hardly any english spoken, the labour party wanted to close the maternity unit here, thank god they did’nt or my first grandchild may of died, a sad state of affairs when people who have paid nothing into this country want all the services we have paid in years for. it needs to be stopped or we wont have a country that speaks english.”

It reads like a 5 year old thinks, and then this happened and then I did this and then I thought that and, and, and, then, then, then. It reads as a big verbal brain fart with no thought to what you are writing about or where your argument is trying to lead the viewer.

Not nice hey Jamie, which is why if you are good at putting your point of view across you don’t resort to this low tactic on commenting on the commenter’s writing style rather than the content of their message.

BTW Jo was writing the way a lot of teens talk and txt these days, it may be harder to read for us old farts, (though no harder than reading your comments) but it’s not that difficult to understand the meaning of the message, which is more than I can say for your comments, most of the time I haven’t clue what you are trying to say!

David