>>1881
This rule is outright stupid. Your rationalization is terrible too. If you actually went and strictly enforced it, /a/ would completely fall apart.
Assuming you've been around for a while, you should know full well that using incorrect capitalization and punctuation can completely change the nuance of things in a post, most obvious example being not putting a dot at the end of a sentence. People don't use smileys, this sort of small difference in writing style often helps others understand where exactly you stand.
But most importantly, I just can't understand how can you have this incredibly uppity, stuck up attitude about it.
>All of us TRUE /a/ posters only ever use proper grammar in all our posts to ensure maximum post quality! Everyone that doesn't do this is obviously someone worthless and should be removed from the board!
You're entirely right that most of the time, people who use this "/v/-like" writing style are morons that should be removed, but those people will either trip up on other fronts, violate other rules, and then get banned for that, or they will learn to adapt, in which case there isn't really an issue, if you eventually can't tell them apart from /a/ regulars. And there are ought to be people who write like that that contribute to the board.
There's also the handholding aspect to this, as others have already pointed out, this kind of thing should be something the users deal with unless it gets out of hand. If someone's grammar or writing style is that terrible, the users will point it out to them, and they either try to fix it or go on posting like an idiot on purpose, in which case right away it falls under shitposting. This whole "try and create a place they could be happy with" just reminds me of "Safe Places" for tumblrina rape survivors on this level. /a/ posters are so fragile that they can't deal with seeing a few posts that are poorly written? If someone sticks around, they'll most likely learn how idiotic a badly written post makes them look like and stop.
I won't go into the NO FUN ALLOWED aspect, but there's that too.
>low quality threads are almost always accompanied by shitty grammar, codifying this as a rule enables more mechanical quality enforcement with less ambiguity
All content should be judged on its merits, that's the entire point of an anonymous imageboard. Instead of that, you bring in personal gripes and prejudices against various groups of people. "All those faggots on /v/ and /pol/ and /int/ couldn't possibly have anything worthwhile to post on /a/, especially if they don't post with correct grammar".
Additionally, what you're suggesting here is that you use the rule an excuse to ban people that make shitty posts. Why dance around it? Ban people that make shitty posts for making shitty posts. This has already been a rule, no shitposting, and worked reasonably well as far as I could tell.
It's not as if I liked those boards, I don't even visit /pol/ or /int/ and I don't go on /v/ much either, but to even suggest something this ridiculous for such stupid reasons, I expected better of /a/'s moderation.