Originally Posted by MathWizard

I'm sorry, Big K; I didn't realize you had such strong feelings about periods. I promise to use them no matter how much whitespace I add after my sentences.

I have a quick question: Would it be possible for you guys to specify that periods are required at the end of all sentences in the rules? As it is, it's hard to distinguish which grammatical rules are OK to break. I was under the impression that the rule was intended to promote readability, which would account for the grammatical errors in the rules page itself.

For example:

The above should, of course, be:

All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly. In particular, all posts should be made in a reasonable approximation of proper English. We realize that a significant number of you are not native speakers, and we do not expect perfection; merely effort. Please obey basic rules of capitalization and punctuation: avoid chatroom abbreviations ("lol", "imo", "u", and the like) and pay at least minimal attention to sentence and paragraph structure.