To ask people to read their message back before posting

[Luckynumbereight]

I am so fed up of reading posts/words that make no sense. Autocorrect IS a massive pain but just fix it!

Most of the time the meaning is obvious, but a lot of mumsnetters distract from the actual thread with faux confusion over a certain word. 🤷‍♀️

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Yes it's easy to turn off, I don't know why people don't do so.

Yet some of us have sight problems and reading it back makes no difference...

I’m your worst nightmare, I don’t have the attention span to reread it back. Just not my personality….sorry…not sorry 😂

Oh deer, guiltee, yor honor.

I'm with OP. Sometimes the subject lines and the subsequent postings are so oddly garbled that it's hard to decode the question or problem.

I'd also love to encourage the use of commas. Huge, run-on, stream of consciousness paragraphs don't communicate ideas/narratives/questions effectively! To be sure, my user name says it all . . .

It doesn't brother me.

Don't presume it's always faux, I genuinely struggle with some of the mangled stuff people post, whether it's due to autocorrect of something else.

I think you're assuming people don't. I re-read my posts 3 or 4 times before posting, and often those last niggly mistakes with phrasing (or the odd typo) only become apparent after I've hit post.

You're also assuming people who post things like "I can't bare it" or "He was hear" actually have the capacity to correct themselves and that the errors are introduced by autocorrect, whereas in this day and age, the sophistication of autocorrect/dictation mean it's rarely the problem nowadays for basic homophones, some people just blame it to deflect from the embarrassment of being unable to use words correctly.

So overall, I agree it's annoying, but YABU, people have different literacy levels.

Edited: See, bloody typical, last minute errata spotted after hitting post!

I assume this is an attempt at a joke.

YANBU. My pet peeve is people who post long detailed OPs without mentioning the DC's age(s). How do you expect a useful response when you haven't said whether your DC is 5 or 15?

I have inattentive adhd.

I read back everything I type and use grammarly but I still miss things all the time.

Does it really matter that much if you understood what it meant.

I wish I was the type of person who casually flung a few lines together and posted without reading it back. I'm the opposite and keep reading back and editing so much that the thread has usually moved on or someone else has made the same point. By the time I get back to this thread, everyone will be talking about zebras or something.

I'm guilty. I'm usually doing several things, not sitting focussed 100% on MN. MN is very low on my focus list. I don't think I've ever posted any complete gibberish. The odd good instead of food or abs instead of and but only an idiot wouldn't understand