To think that mn should have a rule that any post that

[saint2shoes]

comments on another posters spelling, should be deleted.
what is it with this, who really cares?
makes me so angry

It grates on me too - but tying a pedant attack to the OPs other thread was a bit tenuous (if it's the same one we're thinking of). Didn't see such a close link between the two subjects meself.

It's saying, Yeah well, you can't even spell so ner.

It's all rather Vicky Pollard imo.

sorry rl called
Yes I started a silly thread. but all people have to is say that. not correct my spelling. I hate it.

Actually COV I would correct poor spelling in RL. Not in spoken English because it doesn't bother me (and many 'wrong' constructions are perfectly OK in informal speech). But in letters, or in a report, yes (and always at work, because it is important there).

Correcters: how often do you correct someone you agree with?

St2shoes: I'm with yew.

not that I correct people's spelling much on MN because most of the time I can't be arsed

my spelling and typing is pretty crud but i dont care - knowone has eevr pulled me up on it and if they did i would think they were being a bit headmastery and judgey tbh and after al its a forum not an english exam, when i am posting i dont sit and re read and change my wording otherwise the thread would have died before i ever got round to being happy with my spelling. See i have left those one in deliberatly now

EffiePerine, Obviously I would expect you to pick up on it in RL in written text at work etc. However what I meant was if you where talking to someone and they said something that was grammatically incorrect would you pull them up on it? Obviously you can't correct their spelling as they aren't writting. If someone did that to me in conversation I wouldn't be very impressed with them as a person (to put it mildly)

Stealth, I have no objection to it grating on you (you can't help what irritates you) however commenting on it I think is out of order on a forum such as this and amounts to pretty bad manners IMO.

(pathetic defence) - can I just point out that it wasn't me who corrected the OP on her other thread, and I don't correct people on MN or in RL (except my DC and occasionally DH), but I do think there is no more call for a rule to ban people from correcting spelling than there is for rule to ban people from starting 'silly' (OP's word, not mine) threads.

The principles of free speech should apply equally to all.

Absolutely stealth. I wasn't supporting the Op's comment to delete comments on grammar (and I haven't see the thread/s this has stemmed from). I was just agreeing that I think posters correcting others' spelling/grammar when not on a pedants' corner thread (or whatever that topic is called) or if the OP hasn't asked for help is rude, plain and simple.

I am quite smart so can generally work out what people are trying to say even if they sepell it wrong so it doesn't usually bother me

Never know whetehr bad spelling/grammer is a typo/dyslexia/second language/illiterate/careless so don't bother making a big deal of it.

Unless someone pisses me off majorly and any excuse to be bitchy is fair game at which point my typing deteriorates and I look like a dyslexic mouth foaming Mail reader . On the upside it can be very funny.

Like this, Kew

I did go to a Grammar school, where strangely enough, we were taught no grammar at all. Think it was out of fashion or something.

DH was filling in a form at the weekend for DS's school trip. He took a red pen to all the errors. And yes, it's a grammar school!

I think good spelling and grammar is important. However, this is MN, not a school, and it's more important that people feel they can post on here without being intimidated by people who believe they have superior language skills.
So agree with OP, YANBU.