I hate

If there is more than one sentence in a message then I'll punctuate it correctly. Otherwise it would be nonsense!

How do you feel about people that don't start sentences with a capital letter, some of the time?

Don’t you actually mean today? This is the kind of day that hurts my soul to even step foot outside

Eh? Run me through this.

I was taught how to read and write and punctuation. It’s just part of normal communication.

A period at the end of a message lets me know that you've said what you want to say and I can reply. I'd rather that than those lunatics who send about 20 messages in a go with no punctuation so I have no idea when I can actually start to reply to their seemingly endless stream of consciousness.

Haha yeah this is the infuriating one. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! JUST USE RETURN AND TYPE IT ALL OUT

In MS Teams [return] is send. [shift + return] is [return]

They should make [return] function as it does everywhere else & allow [ctrl + return] for send as is the case in MS Outlook.

Until then, folks are getting 20 messages from me.

Thoughts and prayers if your today is like my yesterday was

at least from my perception, I see a very big difference between a whatsapp message saying

no

and a whatsapp message saying

No.

obviously not referring to when there is more than one sentence

Do you hate capital letters too?

I was taught how to read and write and punctuation.

Punctuate? Or taught reading and writing?

Pedantry.

I see a very big difference

Genuinely struggling to understand the difference here.

Does "No." mean "No. Fuck off and die."?

Whereas "no" means "No, I'm alright thanks"?

This.

Ah yeah I’m just talking about phones, I don’t have a real job or a computer.

yes, exactly that. It softens the message, it's IM etiquette. It can have the same function as an emoji basically.

No problem with capital letters btw because phones tend to do that automatically, the period however is a conscious decision

note I am talking about instant messaging, not forums. Obviously it doesn't come across the same way in this context

Actors who can only manage one expression. Charlton Heston. Aidan Gillen. Kenneth Branagh. Steven Seagull. It's a long list but they're all I can think of for now.

After lights out last night, about to sleep I received 10, not dings but vibrations (knowing they were work related) within 30 seconds
I would've had a look if it was just 1 or 2 but after the rest came through I elected to wait until the morning. No need!

it's IM etiquette.

At their best, etiquette systems are widely understood conventions that help people interact civilly. At their worst (and I'd argue this is much more common), they're a set of unspoken rules used by asshats to shame and exclude. Instant Messaging is a phenomenon that didn't exist in living memory, so people's engagement with it can be affected by their age, the time (and extent to which) digital comms entered their lives and many other things. People may consciously reject the etiquette you want to insist on, they may be entirely unaware of it, they may struggle to shake off learned behaviour from other forms of communication, they may simply have a different understanding of IM etiquette (which is something that emerged rather than being set down in a rulebook and there's more than one), to name just a few reasons why somone might type "No." instead of "no". If you think that observing what you believe to be IM etiquette makes you a nicer person, well, you'd be an even nicer person if you were aware of (and tolerant of) the varied circumstances of the people on the other end of the digital comms. Otherwise, you're the asshat. There's a convention long observed by people building digital comms technology that goes "Be tolerant of what you receive and careful of what you send", and it works just as well for people using the products.

Yes.

mate this is the I hate thread

Oh, right. Well, your punctuation is terrible.

Seriously, though, I fairly solidly hate the whole IM etiquette thing. Not the concept per se, but the petty and irrelevant way it has evolved. "Don't just say Hi and then disappear for hours" - that's real etiquette., not bollocks about punctuation or whether to say U or "you".

Actors who can only manage one expression. Charlton Heston. Aidan Gillen. Kenneth Branagh. Steven Seagull. It's a long list but they're all I can think of for now.

Clint Eastwood. Ever noticed how it seems like Trump is usually trying to do his face?

Magnificently put.

My bugbear is the "Hi" then no reply until I respond, followed by "Can I ask you a question?". Just say hi, ask the question and wait. There's no reason for this drawn out bullshit.