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I'm certainly far, far less likely to read a post which lacks proper punctuation, capital letters, paragraph spacing and so on. Firstly because such posts require more decoding work and secondly because experience has taught me that they are often of less "value". The inference being that if the writer either can't be bothered to write properly, or doesn't know how to, then he or she probably can't be bothered to present any worthwhile content either, or doesn't know anything worthwhile.
Obviously this is sometimes deeply unfair, as there are lots of people out there with lots of conditions which make writing hard work. However, I really can't be expected (I think) to consider, much less investigate, what the reason behind an unreadable post is every single time I encounter them. Forum participation is, after all, not something I'm paid for, it's something I do for fun.
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