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

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 28/05/2015 22:06

(In advance I will say any of my posts are likely to have spelling and grammar mistakes)

It's such a shitty thing to do and often it is directed at poster who then feel they have to explain themselves and disclose they have dyslexia. I don't understand why MN tolerate people with potential disabilities being mocked in this way?

Why can it not be regarded as a personal attack and such comments deleted. Very often the arses that post comments about another posters spelling bring nothing else to the thread and usually it derails the thread and the OP's original issue gets lost in the ensuing bunfight.

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JoanHickson · 28/05/2015 22:41

I agree op.

SinisterBunnyMonth · 28/05/2015 22:41

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HoldYerWhist · 28/05/2015 22:40

'Of' instead of have.
'Brought' instead of bought.

These are things that are so easy to fix as long as you know they're incorrect.

Wouldn't you rather know that you're mistaken and rectify it?

Trills · 28/05/2015 22:40

I don't agree with it when it can be construed as a personal attack, but where it's not, I don't see the problem.

I agree with BIWI

CelibacyCakeAndFuckThePO · 28/05/2015 22:40

Scenery definitely or sneary, much more pleasant than sneery.

Please read my first response, before you personally attacked me for having a different opinion to you.

usualsuspect333 · 28/05/2015 22:39

It makes the poster doing the correcting look like a cunt.

And yes they should be deleted.

Ubik1 · 28/05/2015 22:38

I think mumsnet should delete everything.

Everything.

Samcro · 28/05/2015 22:38

out of interest
what is the lose . loose rule
so that you remember which is which,
and bought and brought??

Original poster
cuntycowfacemonkey · 28/05/2015 22:36

Twitching behind your screen or biting down on a pillow perfectly OK Shakey.

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 28/05/2015 22:34

did you mean scenery or sneery Wink

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CelibacyCakeAndFuckThePO · 28/05/2015 22:34

What BIWI said.

Shakey1500 · 28/05/2015 22:34

I've never pulled a poster up for incorrect spelling and poor grammar, but it's really annoying to read and makes me twitchy.

EElisavetaOfBelsornia · 28/05/2015 22:34

I've been on MN for years. I have a job where part of what I do is check and correct documents written by adults for spelling and grammar. But I totally agree with OP - it's sneering and nasty, especially on threads where the poster wants advice. Hoist up judgy pants and feel superior if you like, but it's not necessary to post.

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 28/05/2015 22:33

Is that true MNHQ - are you a site only for those with a sufficient level of intelligence?

Spelling and grammar aren't necessarily indicative of IQ and what a shame to dismiss some exceptionally knowledgeable posters on the basis of their writing style.

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CelibacyCakeAndFuckThePO · 28/05/2015 22:33

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 28/05/2015 22:30

Well in fairness my question was to MNHQ not you and I wasn't actually seeking opinions from your type who clearly think it's an acceptable thing to do. I honestly don't care why you do it or how you justify it but I do care why MNHQ allows it.

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BIWI · 28/05/2015 22:29

I'm on the fence on this one.

I don't like it when it's done as you describe, when an OP has posted something very sensitive. And it can be horribly sneery, which does veer very close to becoming a PA.

However, I also hate the increasing rise of text speak, crap spelling and poor grammar. I am a pedant through and through Grin and I do believe that it's important to spell properly and write grammatically.

(Although I also recognise that on here we're not writing something formal, and that often people make mistakes. In fact I think it's the rule that if you're posting to criticise someone's spelling or grammar, you will make a mistake yourself)

Mumsnet is somewhere that prides itself on being a place for intelligent posters. So surely that means we should also value a higher standard of writing?

So I don't agree with it when it can be construed as a personal attack, but where it's not, I don't see the problem.

thehumanjam · 28/05/2015 22:29

There is a difference between text speak and spelling mistakes/grammatical errors. I don't think errors should be pointed out unless it changes the content of the post.

I remember a few years ago a fairly well known poster picked me up on a mistake in a very condescending manner. However she failed to notice that she had also made a grammatical error in her post so of course I had to pull her up on it as she had been so rude to me. Cue a few posts with people arguing about grammar which was nothing to do with the original post and it added nothing to the discussion whatsoever.

DosDuchas · 28/05/2015 22:29

or right?

QueenBean · 28/05/2015 22:28

If mistakes are not highlighted, how can they improve?

What a horrible thing to say. How patronising to think that the most important thing, for someone who has potentially come here for some real, proper help and who might be in a terrible situation, is to correct them.

Bloody shameful.

DosDuchas · 28/05/2015 22:28

op you are wrong

when did you join MN?

CelibacyCakeAndFuckThePO · 28/05/2015 22:25

So, you ask a question.

I disagree and explain why.

That makes "people like me" mean and sneary.

Im sorry, are we 15??

DosDuchas · 28/05/2015 22:24

yeah thickos Wink

Samcro · 28/05/2015 22:23

its a PA surely so should be deleted
arses that think belittling someone scores them points are pointless

DosDuchas · 28/05/2015 22:23

it is my job tbh

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