Selfgen,
Your post was fine, but formatting does help. You could consider it a courtesy to the readers. I don't think it hurts to try to get some sort of standard above text-messaging level on the forums. I'm not saying that you need to put it in Turabian format or anything that technical, but a lot of people posting will never even capitalize or start new paragraphs! I see those things as basic aspects of communication. It just doesn't seem professional to write any other way.
