Unashamedly a TAAT!

[JudgeRinderSays]

AIBU to think MN should ban grammar and spelling pedantry on all forums except the one explicitly for this purpose.
It is so F*cking tedious!

MNHQ won't delete the correctors posts as they are not against talk guidelines, although I think that some of the more piss taking ones are a form of PA.

However I know whose side MNHQ are on and lets just say it's not the tedious pedants.

I will Mintyy. I would like HQ to be more proactive about this and let the twats know that they are not big, they are not clever and if they persist with their pedantic witch hunt they will be banned for contravening the spirit of Mumsnet.

They could delete the post with just 'Message deleted due to tedious pedant'. The thread would still make sense.

Even if they aren't deleted as they don't technically contravene the guidelines, surely MNHQ can contact certain posters and ask them to stop being so pedantic aka pathetic little twats

Or MNHQ introduces the punishment of highlighting all guilty posters' posts in shity brown, as suggested ^

@ tescoes (it's actually a pita to type with autocorrect!)

But the question remains, if the post can be understood, why should a post like that be corrected?

In all seriousness, do people honestly have nothing better to do with their time?

Is everyone on NetMums illiterate?

Maybe Mnhq dont need to address it. Posters can just call the pedants on their pedantialismness.

Oh Fox it's so shitty that you felt like that. All of tho people defending ripping into poster's grammar should read that and feel bloody ashamed. They are making parts of MN a hostile place acting as they do.

It's obvious from this thread a certain selection of posters think they are completely in the right, and nothing is swaying them. "Why, yes of course it's my right to tear someone's words apart, they made a mistake the big dummies, they asked for it, I'd be grateful to be corrected so publicly 57684774 times so they should be too".
Just bizarre.

I thought we didn't like netmums because of all the hugging and glitter but no, its because they can't write properly sparkling Clearly we missed the memo

Ah there now, I thought the netmums references were of the past....

So you can go on NetMums and not have to worry about grammar and spelling and pedants Lois. I'm in!

thereal
The problem is that the thread will then be derailed by people calling out the pedants and then the pedants retaliating. Last nights thread being an example

[Confused] Netmums - the key stage 1 of parenting websites.

and MN is a Wussel Gwoup University of course...

My friend is a Netmummer(?) she's lovely and has a masters degree in a maths related subject, she just prefers the hugs and huns, fair play to her. She's no bloody thicko though, how insulting.

I think a lot of the time, that when we're going about our daily lives, we don't actually use perfect grammar. Well, I know I don't.

I'm a SAHM, I foster, I listen to reading at school and volunteer at the food bank. I communicate professionally when I need to, but in general I'm casually chatting to friends or family, writing the odd shopping list or note excusing a DD from PE. I see MN as an online version of casually chatting with friends.

I don't even notice half of these grammar errors that people go on about, it's a chat forum, if I can get the gist of the post, then I'm all good

Maybe if we all wrote should of and loose for lose, the pedants would get fed up of correcting us all and go away stop doing it.

They'd probably all self combust

Good point twatfacebitch
Fucking genius name btw.
What about a [.]
Like a but just a crumb?

Tis one of those things, Metallic - I'm getting better now (on here at least, even if rl is a bit harder) which you can probably tell as I'm becoming argumentative!

But off the top of my head, I can think of 3 posters who have been utterly torn a new one for the most stupid of reasons. All 3 posters, I know for a fact have gone through - and posted separately about - the most horrific, utterly nauseating and devastating events going on in their lives. I mean completely heartbreaking. I've gone to the extent of contacting some posters via pm to say "back the fuck off" and providing links to other threads, and there have been apologies posted on the pedantic threads as a result.

It just absolutely kills me that some people feel justified in criticising posters so freely, seemingly without a thought as to what else might be going on in the op's life.

@ key stage 1 of parenting websites

I could probably crank out a thread with pretty good Spag if I could be arsed but it doesn't come naturally and is a pita. I'm here for BANTER! Not an exam! DOWN WITH SPAG!

Gets tannoy and soapbox

I don't understand why people cannot just NOT OPEN the fucking thread if a typo in the title bothers them? Seriously, why waste time opening, reading and replying just to point out an 'error' in the title?

Also, this is meant to be like a conversation with friends - not an academic essay. So why on earth shouldn't people type as they speak? I like it, sometimes I read posts in a certain accent, from drawing an assumption from the language used. I like it! Local words and phrases may not be grammatically perfect, but who cares?? Seriously, life is too short....

I like the [.]

bakeoff
After reading the thread last night I nearly started a clut of threads in all different subjects all having should of, could of, would of in the title. Then something along the lines of fuck off writing once opened.
But probably again mn rules, and I really couldn't be arsed as it was late.

*Against