Is this fair towards me? Got banned from writing news articles for using too many big words and making illiterate people feel dumb?

[jennifer_bloom]

This is the second time I got kicked out of a writers group for using too many big words and making uneducated people feel dumb. I've been kicked out of two groups so far for using big words. I don't use big words on this site but I've poised as educated doctors before by writing my own health profile and signing it with a doctors name, the professionals who read my profile did not know the difference.

It's okay to ban you

It's not fair

Neutral opinion

That is dependent on what you wrote and who banned you

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3 mo

I don’t know why I get so much passionate hate about it when you did not even read my writing, I was using technical terminology to analyze artwork and people felt my writing made other people feel dumb and said I was no longer allowed to write about art.

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Also yesterday only 1 user said it was right to ban me and 3 hours later 4 users said it was right to ban me, clearly my female stalker is creating fake male profiles to vote on my question. I just blocked her again since she has dozens of accounts.

[SnowedIn]

Fair? No, it's not. Does it make sense considering the world we live in and it's hostility to language and words, totally. In a world of tweets and gag posts, it's not surprising you got banned. So sorry to hear that.

[SnowedIn]

Thanks for mho!

[DryGermanGuy]

If they really used that as a reason they sound astonishingly ignorant and obtuse. 😳

[Surely]

I think part of the skill of writing is to write to the audience that will be reading it. Not to say anything terrible about your knowledge of the English language. Which much be a lot better than most. Especially mine!
I guess what I am trying to say. If you write above a person’s comprehension level. Either they will not understand what you are trying to get across. Or, they will stop reading!
My mother had an eighth grade education and was born in 1918! I had to “translate” for her. Mainly for doctor’s. So I understand the readers point of view.
Good luck in your writing!

[purplepoppy]

Why use big words? Is gargantuan really better than big? Peppering writing with long words when a shorter more common one would be better suited is just bad English. Fair enough use a long one when it's the only correct one, but doing so to appear more educated is simply rude. If you've something to say, do so in a way everyone can understand you.

[whirled_up_girl]

No that doesn't seem fair, seems more like lazy readers. I like learning new words, if I don't know what they mean I look them up in the dictionary.

[Sixgunsound]

Making people feel bad gets a lot of people banned from a lot of places. I know a little bit about that.

[jennifer_bloom]

I was not trying to make them feel dumb but they made themselves feel dumb by choosing to compare themselves to me.

[Sixgunsound]

Bahahahaha

[Sixgunsound]

Newspapers are supposed to be written at a 4th grade reading level to reach the widest possible audience. Is this a club newspaper for people with specific skills and interests?

[jennifer_bloom]

It’s a free lance social community and not a professional reporting blog, I wrote a few art critiques that was too challenging even for the elite leaders in the group so I got banned from analyzing art. My last article was on Chinese culture.

[Sixgunsound]

In my admittedly slight acquaintance with the art world it seems to generally be written in the most complicated way possible, I assumed that was the culture of that community.

[AngryCarl]

You impersonated a doctor? How is that even legal? Have you actually treated anyone?

[jennifer_bloom]

For my university, they asked me to write a list of my medical problems so they would know how to accommodate me, so I wrote my own issue and handed it to the school staff and they thought it was written by a doctor.

[LemiaOfThunder]

I rhink so