March 28, 2005
Is it just me,or is aol ripping people off,Ive been using aol-broadband-dsl,for over ayear,often theres no
activity on my modem which leads me to belive Im back on dial up,slooooow,I also have comcast,cable on a
older pc but still usally faster,any feedback?
You are in trouble. It looks like AOL is also robbing you of precious apostrophes and semicolons!
I can't even understand what you're asking. Is this really the kind of thing that needs to be posted on the front page?
wellobviouslyscartolisbeingwaytooanalaboutpunctuaionbutevenmoreaolisjustalittleontheevilside
scartolgotohellyousmallmindedlittlepieceofsnailscum
OMFG, I left out a "T'. Please, don't anybody tell scartol.
You might want to talk to your parents, pakman. If you're older than you sound, or if you're a victim of really bad education, please enroll in an English composition class at your local community college. It's inexpensive and worth more than gold.
Take this post of yours to your first class, and offer it as a sample of your writing. You're getting your idea across, but not fully and not well.
At the same time, you should know where to post your questions. Monkeyfilter is not the place for this. It's difficult to believe that Monkeyfilter was your first choice. In fact, it's almost as tho you're trolling.
Strunk and White is your friend. Ask your local librarian (I'm one!), 'cause she's your friend, too.
um.
Um?
Om.
Is this really the kind of thing that needs to be posted on the front page?
It's that "need" bit that I'm not really up to speed with. There are a lot of posts here that have absolutely paper-thin justification (my own among them), whereas this is a genuine query. I'm sorry I can't help you with answering it, pakman, but maybe somebody else will be able to.
Shoot, maybe we're all up too late. Take a breath, pakman, and free yourself from aol. Check Mozilla.com Can't help you with the DSL; I'm still dial up.
I would say that, first, AOL is a rip-off regardless of what speed you are using. There is absolutley no reason to use AOL unless it is the only thing available. Any generic broadband will do the same thing with more flexability and less restrictions on what you do. Never having had any experience with DLS, I would suggest that the problem might be with the phone lines as I've heard that is a common reason for dsl woes.
Secondly, I agree with Wolof that there seem to be TONS of posts that seem a LOT less relevent than this or harder to answer than this. I mean, there is probably one post a day where my response is, "go search google, moran!" but you don't see me complaining. Unless we've started self-appointing ourselves as quality police while I was out of town last week, I'll just ignore posts that don't interest me.
To pakman:
First of all, it is technically impossible for a DSL modem to behave like a dialup modem. Do you suspect that AOL have palmed off a dialup modem to you in the guise of a DSL modem? A good way to check your suspicion is to lift the handset of another phone on the same line and listen for the telltale dialup modem noises.To tracicle:
Secondly, this is not the right forum for your question. Talk to AOL's customer service representatives. There are a plethora of reasons why your DSL service might be sucky. What steps have you taken to diagnose your problem?
Thirdly, you should spend some time with an English textbook. If your style of writing is an act, it is a poor act that is unlikely to win you any friends. If you are learning English as a second language, take this as a gentle warning that you should pay much closer attention to the general rules of punctuation and syntax.I would recommend this post for deletion on the grounds that it is worse than a chatty CG, which seems to be the de facto minimal standard of acceptance for a post. I realise that we have so far avoided the issue of deleting posts based on their quality, but I think this post is worthy of setting a precedent.
I realise that we have so far avoided the issue of deleting posts based on their quality, but I think this post is worthy of setting a precedent.
Couldn't we just delete it because he didn't even bother to label his post a Curious George? He could have, at the very least, slapped that on there.
Unless his connection was messing up and he needed to type quickly...
It's not just you.
AOL is ripping people off.
AOL wants people who don't use AOL to buy AOL and install it over thier existing broadband connection for no apparent reason.
AOL servers are notoriously slow and crappy. Their hardware needs to support the poor bastards still using 14k dialup and 486 computers. They use proprietary compression algorythms that purportedly speed up communication but actually do nothing except bog down their servers.
Aside from the spelling, seriously: Don't admit to anyone that you use AOL. It will make them suspect your general level of computer knowledge. Sort of like seeing someone peeling sweet corn at the supermarket, or buying a stamp-cut stainless steel knife instead of a drop-forged one. Makes you realize they don't know a damn thing about the stuff they're dealing with there.
...And seriously. Didn't you ever think of plugging the newer computer into the old cable connection? That would pretty much answer your question right there. Besides, who pays for cable and DSL at the same time?
Hang on there, Lucifurby. I think it's certainly a reasonable thing to ask that posters (both on the Front Page and in comments) make a good-faith effort to have their posts be reasonably clear and comprehensible.
Poor use of commas notwithstanding, the lack of apostrophes in "Ive" and "Im," as well as the intentional lack of capitalization of AOL and DSL make it seem that this isn't just a post where the person in question is still unfamiliar with the rules of grammar (would not AOL remain capitalized in other languages?), but that the poster in question is actively ignoring even a basic level of reasonable grammar.
Forgive me, pakman, if I'm mistaken, but this post doesn't read to me as "unfamiliar with English usage" but simply very sloppy.
Sorry, pakman, I don't know a thing about aol.
However, critics always make me want to howl.
Some of our monkeys are very young.
Some monkeys speak English as a second tongue.
Some monkey are old and can't spell for beans (like me),
and some are used to messaging where folk write differently.
Language keeps changing, usage doesn't stay the same --
so most of us do what we can to keep from sounding lame.
If there's a perfect person here, I'm not aware of it,
I'd like to see the grammar police just simply stuff it.
If there's a perfect person here, I'm not aware of it
What about me? I'm totally fucking pefrect.
Ah, shit.
Me to
I don't think anyone's asking for perfection, bees. But when the number of errors in a post is this close to parity the number of words in it, it's going to be somewhat difficult for a useful discussion to ensue.
*parity with
My neighbor's computer died, and she came over here to check her e-mail. She uses aol, so I had to get aol up on this thing. It took fucking forever. Then, she says she just needs to read her e-mail before it's deleted.
"Deleted?"
"They delete e-mail after a month."
"But, why do you. . .wait. Huh?"
I tried to tell her about yahoo and gmail, but she's semi-elderly (I'll guess late sixties) and English isn't her first language.
I'm havving a hard time understanding people's complaints. Grammar? seriously? I don't know. Maybe I have spent too much time reading hastilly written emails from students that were written at 3 am the morning a paper was due, but I didn't even really notice any errors untill people started complaining about them.
Appropriateness? Not to point fingers, but there is a front page post right now that was asked less than two weeks ago, so I don't see this post as particularly inappropriate.
Maybe my epic 11 hour journey from San Diego to Indianapolis via Newark has warped my mind, but I don't see the cause for discussion (but then again I don't see why people are discussing 90% of what has been on the nightly news for the past few weeks either so OBVIOUSLY I must have some misplaced priorities or something!)
Its hard too focus on the content sometime's when your distracted bye the presintation. But, if your offended bye the writting thats a good reson, not to replie, methink's.
oh,jeezs,I see that all my old english teachers are still alive!And better yet,their all here.
It is an act.
Is 14 days without a doublepost, or otherwise deleted post, a record?
what are u,a deleted thread nazi,jeezs!!
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