"Quotes" are flippant.

[panzerr]

im still confused as to what is "proper"...



or "F- you"



i must be feeling nice today, i even censored myself.

Either one gets the point across

[Failure2Stop]

The irony of quoting a movie without using quotation marks in this thread is just pure unadulterated awesome.

edited to add: Quotation marks would not have been grammatically appropriate, just funny.

I'm glad someone out there in enjoying these little pearls I try to share.

[LOKNLOD]

When someone "quotes" every other "word" like "this"

It's a way of being flippant -a way of subtly being a dick

Unlike starting threads to correct a forum's grammar, which is a very overt way of being a dick.

You're right a lot of people use quotes poorly but simply using them to emphasize words is a valid use, and as you noted, with the lack of facial expressions and inflection online it can be a useful way to help express one's tone.

Don't get wrapped around the axle on pretty nonsense like this.

[panzerr]

Unlike starting threads to correct a forum's grammar, which is a very overt way of being a dick.

You're right a lot of people use quotes poorly but simply using them to emphasize words is a valid use, and as you noted, with the lack of facial expressions and inflection online it can be a useful way to help express one's tone.

Don't get wrapped around the axle on pretty nonsense like this.

There are plenty of legit uses of quotes, but using quotes to belittle, inslult, be flippant, or somehow reduce what another is saying happens a great deal on this site. It's very second grade, I am tired of it and it belongs on TOS, not here.

Again, I don't give a damn about anyone's bad grammar. What I care about it the subtle flippantness that goes unchecked and has been getting worse and worse.

[austinN4]

"Don't get wrapped around the axle on pretty nonsense like this."

Quote of the day

[JSantoro]

[Alex F]

What I care about it the subtle flippantness that goes unchecked and has been getting worse and worse.

Something I learned a long time ago (ironically, as a moderator on a forum like this) is that there are FAR more important things to worry about in your life than what people post on an internet forum.

[GMZ]

Summary:
Lighten up, Francis.

[rob_s]

Tone is tough to convey in writing. Sometimes people read things into something that isn't intended by the author.

For example, and I think applicable to what the OP is referring to....

Someone might post about defending themselves in their home and how they go about moving from room to room with their firearm checking for intruders and securing family members.

Someone else may respond and say something and include "room clearing" in quotes to save space even though the OP never actually used that exact term. If the respondent was agreeing with the OP then the OP will see no malice in this, but if there is a disagreement the OP will instead take great offense, focus on the minutia of the quoted term, and we're down the butt-hurt-highway. The thread typically becomes useless at this point.

However, the respondent may only be using the quotes as a form of sorthand to summarize what the OP was talking about, not to be flippant or otherwise mean to the OP.

[ToddG]

Sometimes people read things into something that isn't intended by the author.

How dare you say that about my mother!

rob_s should be banned!