My way of thinking is that blockland is a game, and the forums is well, a forum. I try to maintain as high a level of spelling and grammar as possible here, for sure. Any forums is horrid when people start saying plz and thx in the middle of forum posts.
I'm a little more loose ingame though. The point of a game is to have fun, so who cares if it's faster to shortform a word. That doesn't mean my conversations are: plz gve me a gun kthx, but it isn't such a big deal in a game. I also think plz, thx, etc. are really over-noobed. People associate these words with noobs because they haven't learned that balance yet and tend to overuse these words. Shortforms really are faster than typing please or thank you, although really; please and thanks are politeness things and really shouldn't be shortformed. Something like Hai though? I use them occasionally when I'm greeting people in a certain way. Hello is more formal than Hi, just like it feels like Hai is less formal than Hi. This prompts me to use them when greeting my close friends, especially when they're not really leaving for a long period of time. I've never heard of wai...
