AIBU that criticising someone's spelling and grammr on AIBU is rubbish behaviour ?

[Stinkycatbreath]

Ive noticed this on Facebook and here. Now I can understand that when people use offensive language people need to pull them up on it. But sometimes people might miss a letter or comma or something and there is always one or several people who make a comment nothing to do with the thread about the OPs spelling or grammar! I mean you logged on to make a comment nothing to do with the thread. We have all made typos and posted things which are not grammatically accurate but some people are just out to get others as they think they have superiority. I especially like it when people are losing an arguement then really get in their with "yeh well at least I can spell properly " or something to that affect. It must be lovely to be so perfect and for my money those peole can stick their grammar where the sun don't shine. As long as a post is legible and understandable its fine., no need to be such a twonk.

I'm sure that they won't miss my contribution

That is exactly the point, nobody is saying in a wider way SPaG aren't important, but that on MN it isn't a decent way of behaving to pull someone up on the same, rather than discuss the issue they have asked for assistance/opinion on.

If a poster's SPaG bother people, they should simply scroll by and not get involved.

senua forum chatting isn't a 'job'.

That's the whole point. None of us have to do it and if other people's SPAG makes a person so wound up that they simply 'have' to pull them up on it because they're completely unable to just scroll by, then I don't really think internet chat forums are for them.

There, they're, their. Whilst patting the pedant's head.

This is just an anonymous online forum. My grammar is excellent and I have proofread many academic articles for colleagues and marketing materials for the University I used to work in. I cannot however get my knickers in a twist over grammar on MN and am rather slapdash myself.

I have been genuinely upset over the years when a poster who has bad grammar has been pulled apart for them when they have been reaching out for help.