A note to DU posters; placing the "n/t" or "eom" signifiers inside the message field

[Greyhound]

defeats the whole purpose of it.

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Really?

n/t

[meegbear]

2. eom

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I have seen this numerous times...

It is one of my few pet peeves here.....:eyes:

And from experienced posters, yet!

[stellanoir]

4. "n/t" "eom"

[Seen the light]

5. Why do you say that? nt

Does this post serve no purpose? :P

[Catherine Vincent]

6. LOL!

n/t

[Blue-Jay]

7. I don't see the purpose of it anyway.

nyah.

[Emit]

8. I agree n/t

[irish.lambchop]

9. I'm new to DU and

have no idea what "n/t" or "eom" mean (so, therefore, haven't defeated any purpose - that I'm aware of). Just only figured out what "K and R" mean so if you could explain what "n/t" and "eom" are, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

[notadmblnd]

10. No text and end of message

[Connie_Corleone]

11. n/t=no text. eom=end of message

n/t

[Emit]

13. Placed in the subject line, n/t or eom signifies that there is no further message. n/t

[WinkyDink]

30. THANK YOU! I didn't want to ask! :)

[Adelante]

15. It's so a reader can pass by listed posts

that have no content - the message is simply in the Subject line. Welcome to DU :hi:

[Lobster Martini]

18. The DU Glossary

Acronyms, terms, mocking nicknames etc. commonly used on DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x190

[Greyhound]

21. A courtesy to people that connect to the internet with a dial-up connection.

It can sometimes take up to a minute to open a reply when the board is busy or the thread is long, and it just saves them from wasting this time to open up a reply with no content.

[Lochloosa]

25. And Welcome to DU irish.lambchop

:toast:

[EFerrari]

42. Welcome to DU, irish.lambchop. eom.

[jgraz]

12. Woudn't it be nice if empty messages had a different icon?

eom

[SoCalDem]

16. remember when we could just have the subject box and No message box?

The update in '03 did away with that feature..:(

[jgraz]

19. Nope...I didn't really start posting here until '06 E O M

[HamdenRice]

14. I don't understand

eom

n/t

You don't have to read this field. Really.

You should not have clicked on the subject line to read this message! It's too late now!

[slowry]

17. k&t

n/r!

[Parche]

20. Posters

I n/t dont 'eom' know n/t what 'eom' you n/t mean.............:bounce:

[Justitia]

22. Agree. Happy Friday. -eom

[Scout]

23. thank you for posting this, I've been getting really annoyed lately

when people don't put n/t or eom in the subject line. Even if you're not on dial-up, it's a pain in the ass to click on a post only to get a blank message field.

[lyonn]

26. It seems like a courtesy thing, what you see is what you get type thing

[KamaAina]

24. I always just put an appropriate emoticon in the message

if it's a one-liner.

[ProgressiveFool]

27. Whoops, sorry

I thought it was some sort of placeholder for the text field, like as if the thing wouldn't accept a blank message box.

[Greyhound]

28. No problem, that's why I posted this. n/t

[ripple]

29. I agree with you, but

eom

:P

[BlooInBloo]

31. I use ellipses or a period. Never understood why *another* linguistic tool...

... was needed.

[Greyhound]

33. See #21. It's just nice to save other's time.

[BlooInBloo]

35. So little understanding of what I actually said.

[Greyhound]

44. Feel free to enlighten me. n/t

[donco6]

45. Me too, because I have no idea what you're saying. n/t

[qanda]

32. There are some message boards where you have to add text

inside of a post. I think some people may be in the habit of adding "nt" inside of their posts because of that.

[DRoseDARs]

40. There's also when one runs out of space in the title and can't put either n/t or eom there.

I put n/t or nt in the title if there's space and eom in the message body if there isn't.

Either way, quit whining about it people. :eyes:

[Catherine Vincent]

34. My pet peeve is when a poster starts typing their post in the subject line and then

My pet peeve is when a poster starts typing their post in the subject line and then starts it over in the message box. :P

[Critters2]

39. Doesn't that just piss ya off?!

Doesn't that just piss ya off?! nt eom

And how about people who have to edit a post because they can't spell "piss"?!

[Cameron27]

41. Yes that is

Yes that is so annoying!:+

[snooper2]

36. I'm sure your going to be able to change it....

nt

[Greyhound]

43. Not likely, too many people get some perverse pleasure out of inconveniencing

others. I think it stems from personal feelings of inadequacy.

But there are a few who just don't know, it is for them that I posted it.

[Critters2]

37. I've often thought that, too

eom :)

[Oglethorpe]

38. kind of like......

Its kind of like manuals that have pages marked "this page intentionally left blank" on them. I've never quite gotten that.....