I've never seen anybody bitch at the use of acronims (the use of lol, to be honest, btw etc...) Its when people come onto a forum, and they can't even construct a readable sentence, i mean, i couldn't care less about people that come on and don't use capital letters etc, as long as i can read what they're posting its ok. But generally most people that come onto this forum, are so used to text talk, or msn talk if thats what you want to call it (its basically the same thing) is really annoying, who wants to spend most of their trials-forum viewing pleasure, looking at all the topics in all the sub forums filled with text talk. I think the validation rule is good, even though it took me like 4 months and 100 + posts to do it, i still think its a good system. The only bad point i feel is the for sale/wanted part of things, i know its tricky but i'm pretty sure most people when dealing with people without references will ask for a phone number address (obviously address if your posting something) and can tell if the person is a scammer or not. EDIT: It automatically changes the acronim for 'to be honest' to 'to be honest'