When I browse through the Barton Town boards for Roleplaying, I wonder, is Gaia's literacy rate falling? Is there such a high number of young users that don't know how to use proper grammar and spelling on Gaia? Sure there are a fair amount of the older aged Gaian citizens, but as far as we know, how many people under 12?
I looked through some of the boards, flipping through here and there, but then, on the occasion, I look at an RP title's name, and even without looking at the contents of the RP, I can tell whether it is illiterate or near illiterate. I've seen some pretty bad examples out there, but I shall not say who's RP's they are. I've seen people get better and better by doing this. (Yes...I track people. Wanna know who I track?) True, the literacy rate for these people I have tracked has gone up for them. Out of all the people I have watched, not a single one has gone down. (insert evil smirk here)
I am not questioning the fact of whether or not if noobs are overrunning the site, I know for a fact that it's not, but it seems that people are not bothering to give the appearance of educated people. Yes, I look DOWN upon uneducated people. It's an instinct I grew up with. This number of "uneducated people" has seemingly increased, or people are getting lazy appearing educated so they give the notion that they aren't educated. What ever happened to the great Gaia boards that were filled with RP's that were so great, they were like reading books? What happened to them?
I sign out.
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