Isn't about time MNHQ started deleting posts that attack people's spelling and grammar?

Yes, emphatically yes, ccfm.

It's just attention-seeking behaviour from some who are lacking something.

Watching Mission Impossible - Doesn't It Always ....

:) cunty

I can't say I've ever seen a post being deleted for being irrelevant or derailing, unless the person responsible has actually requested it because they posted on the wrong thread. Does it happen in fact?

There are techy sites that do this all the time and I used to go on some UK forums (can't remember which ones) that'd do it very rigorously, sometimes too rigorously!

But it does mean that if you go on a thread looking for an answer to the problem in the title, you don't have to slog through pages of idiots trying to be funny before you find the help you're looking for.

The other option would be a "Hide Poster" option as it's invariably the same twats that do it - but MNHQ don't like the thought of us missing out on some of the joys these people can share with us

See I can get on boards with goady posters having there posts coloured shit brown.

Or even their posts?

:)

I can't say I've ever seen a post being deleted for being irrelevant or derailing, unless the person responsible has actually requested it because they posted on the wrong thread. Does it happen in fact?

The thing is, if MN are going to delete these posts, where does it stop?

There are many forums where posts that derail the thread or that have nothing to do with the topic are deleted straight off. I wouldn't have a problem with that.

Maybe not for Chat, but for AIBU and Relationships it'd be ideal.

MNHQ always say they rely on reports of posts, but for those 2 boards I think they should be far more proactive than they are.

I used to know a forensic linguist. She was bloody brilliant. I'm completely crap at any of that stuff - don't notice namechanges; terrible at troll spotting; take all posts as offered. This is advantageous to my blood pressure, I suppose.

I would like goadyfuckers' threads/posts coloured shit brown And a little turd icon next to their username ...

I don't like deletion of posts or threads. I think posts should stand so everyone can see who's a cuntycunt, and threads should stay so we can all study the troll's writing style, thus recognising her/him more easily when they return after a nc. I would like goadyfuckers' threads/posts coloured shit brown, and threads locked.

Rudeness + derailing + pile-on should = deletion of original rude post and reprimands to pilers-on. IMO. Let people answer the OP and be supportive.

The thing is, if MN are going to delete these posts, where does it stop? Should we ask them to delete everything expressing particular political opinions? For or against abortion? For or against breastfeeding? Posts about manners?

To be honest, I wish grammar pedants wouldn't do it, not entirelybecause of the contents of their posts, but because every time they do this the thread gets totally derailed by at least 50 aggressive self-righteous types hoiking up their judgy pants and telling them off, generally repeating each other ad nauseam over several pages.

Met I can think of at least 3 very successful business owners I know, who never let their lack of spelling and grammar skills hold them back.

Yet if they came here, they would probably have their arses handed to them on a plate because of it.

Internet forums are a lifeline for some people, so it's awful to see them being 'shut out', by people who have nothing better to do than make themselves feel superior.

My FIL left school at 14 to work on the family farm (rural Ireland, he's in his 80's now). He is the most intelligent man that I know, he can take one cursory look at something and work out exactly how it works and how to fix it, he has vast knowledge about things you'd never dream a 'little old man' to even know about. Due to his interrupted education his spag isn't great, he has done very well for himself regardless. People underestimate him, they are stupid to tbh.

It annoys me that somebody like him - who could probably beat the sneery twits hands down in a verbal discussion, would be looked down upon and assumed thick, just because his spag isn't up to some mystery standard upheld by the grammar bores.
Not that he'd ever come on MN :), but there will be people like him on here, amazingly sharp minded and clever people who have been denied the oppurtunites to expand their literacy, but who are just as bloody intelligent, if not more so than the dreary self appointed grammar monitors on here (and definitely nicer people to boot).

I'm married to an oik. I'll get my coat...

I was Gralick until last week! Here, have a soothing

Jeez, and your name wrong too, Gilrack

There's some Internet Law, isn't there, that every post about SPAG will inevitably contain an error?

(You know how many times I had to correct that before posting, don't you )

Cannot believe I just wrote right instead of write! I was trying to distract myself from dd dressmaking meltdown!

I am far too well bred to ever right anything more explicit than upset tummy in a school note. Now I am torn. I desperately want to be able to say "Doesn't It Always Run Rather Horribly Right Over Each Ankle"

I do try to be diplomatic

See, Gralick, you automatically corrected my 'tread' back to 'couldn't read' without pronouncing the whole sentence unreadable or questioning my intelligence.

Couldn't resist this .... Never come across a post I couldn't read on here.

You can't have been on MN before usual got a new phone!