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Golly, for someone in the top 2% (or 0.5%) you REALLY have a hard time grasping the point being made, and taking a little criticism.

The conventions of written English have been developed over time, and learned by those wishing to read and write, to make communication between people easier and more precise. Writing that follows those conventions is less likely to be misunderstood, and is more likely to read with the correct meaning taken.

Since you seem to not care to capitalize and punctuate, readers of your posts are more likely to misread them, rendering whatever message you intended lost.

It is SIMPLE COURTESY to write to others in the standards of the language that we share. Since you are taking the time to post things here, you must have at least some small desire to communicate with the "lesser minds" that you encounter here, otherwise, why would you bother. While I personally use slang terms and other idioms in my conversational speech, when writing here I attempt to be as clear as possible. That means proper spelling, syntax, punctuation and where applicable, formatting.

Let me give you an example using your style of writing, and show you where misunderstandings could easily occur:

You might write something like this:

that is not something i did recently

Since there is no punctuation and capitalization to help the reader, and since you are not infallible (check your own spelling of "exapmles", the reader now must check the prior context of your post to determine if you meant:

(1) "That is not something I did recently."

- or -

(2) "That is not something it did recently."

Where "it" refers to some other subject mentioned earlier in your post or posts.

So, for Pete's sake, use a little courtesy and make the effort on your part to move your little pinky fingers to press the SHIFT keys, and use a comma or period.

I will leave you with one final thing to think about: With no other evidence presented, which statement carries more weight?

i know the rules of english and i can write really well

-or-

I know the rules of English, and I can write really well.

Det var en guy en gang, som prøvd betvile et geni på et levende poststed. Han prøvd forkleine guy ved å snakke ned til ham om regel av English språk, vokste som han opp i. Morsom ting er, guy rettende det smart, som ennå mindre omsorgsfull guy gjør ikke en gang vet enda et språk. Spesielt Norwegian.

i know English perfectly well, i just don't care online. do you know a little of this language? how about Gaelic? some Hebrew? maybe a little Japanese? i do. simple courtesy says that you would read for content, and not flame based on a general laziness on my part. i put punctuation where it needs to be for my point, i just don't put in caps letters, and sometimes neglect to place apostrophes. i am NOT going to Hell for that. and yes, proper names still have caps, and for making my point more clear, i will put some words in all caps. i have no trouble GRASPING the point, it's GIVING A DAMN that seems to elude me. checking my previous posts is fine by me, it means that they know the FULL context of my statements.

o, and "for someone in the top 2% (or 0.5%) you REALLY have a hard time grasping the point being made," is wrong.
it should be "for someon in the top 2% (or 0.5%), you REALLY have..." see what's missing? try and make yourself correct before correcting others, i may be more inclined to listen.