User blog comment:The Deadliest Warrior/Grammar and Spelling/@comment-75.105.33.149-20110211050844

To Anyone Who Reads This: I am a big fan of Deadliest Warrior, and even before the show came around, my friends and I would hang around, shooting the bull, and argue over who would win against who. I applaud the creativity of the users, and admire their enthusiasm. Which is why I pray this post is recieved in the manner is intended.

I find it amusing that The Deadliest Warrior (capitalized and spaced) is policing users' spelling and grammer, when, as near as I can tell, no one on this wiki can be troubled to actually research the warriors they are writing about.

Donkey Kong with the Peanut Popgun? Why would he borrow Diddy's weapon, which was meant to be dual-wielded, when he has his Coconut Shooter?

Majin Buu vs The Mask? Buu blows up planets. By pointing at them. How can anyone except Superman or Dr. Manhatten compete with that? If the intent here is to humiliate Buu, why not pit him against Inspector Gadget? Or the Tick? Or the Care Bears?

Harry Potter vs Percy Jackson? I like it, in theory. But the winner would be determined by who is the faster draw, and at what range they'll be fighting. Percy is actually trained to use a sword, so he would beat Harry, hands down. Harry has more magical abilities available to him; he wouldn't be limited to the three spells chosen by the user. At a distance, he would beat Percy every time. A more interesting fight would be Percy, Annabeth, and Grover vs. Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

And, I really don't trust myself to talk about Vampire Slayers vs. Zombie Hunters.

Furthermore, I'm not seeing many citations of where certain characters originated from. Many people only know Big Head from his movie incarnation, which is completely different from the comic. And I personally had no idea who "The Coach" was. I had to look up the Green Flu Outbreak on Wikipedia in order to find out. Also, are MMA gloves even a weapon? I thought they were supposed to protect your hands against the stress of punching someone, not do additional damage against the guy you're punching.

Anyway, what's the point of a wiki, if you have to go to another wiki just to understand the information in the first wiki?

We all have lives apart from the internet, and thorough research and writing takes time. But if you really want people to take you seriously, to make this wiki look "professional," then show you're serious about the subject you purport to be "experts" on.

And quit saying "no flames." Teenagers do that, and no one takes teenagers seriously. And it's not going to stop someone from flaming you!

I'm probably just screaming impotently into the great blackness of the internet, but I hope that whoever reads this will see through their own indignance to the constructive criticism that I intend.

Signed, A Huge Nerd.