Sometimes I can understand someone who uses abbreviations while typing if they are doing something in real-time; however the amazing thing about forum posting is that you have the time to write something in an intelligent and well thought-out manner and can even edit your own posts before you submit them.
What I really can't stand are the "abbreviations" that take longer to type than the actual word or abbreviations like "ur", "urself" or "ne1" for example. Really? It takes maybe half a second more to type a couple letters more and in using that time you just increased the validity of your post ten-fold.
Hmm...I think this topic has become a little off-topic. Oh, wait, I forgot no one is quite sure what the topic of this post is...