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

[cuntycowfacemonkey]

(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.

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

I think mumsnet should delete everything.

Everything.

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

And yes they should be deleted.

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.

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

'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?

I agree op.

Agree, delete everyone for everything.

Then paint the site pink.

Add sparkles.

It's halfway there already

Yeah them fucking thick plebs, coming over here posting on oh so intelligent MN.

It'd be nice if they'd consider it.

Anyway, I got as far as this:

'Have and Of are not indicative of dyslexia.

It is indicative of poor grammar.'

And my irony metre exploded, but I also wanted to say, yes, mistaking 'have' and 'of' could be dyslexic errors. I don't know why people persist in imagining they're not. It is frustrating.

Cross posted with usual, which seems apt as we always seem to end up rubbing shoulders on these threads.

Agree there's an element of sneering at 'plebs'.

I agree with you OP.

In fact, I shall start reporting posts from people being pedantic when it's not the time or the place.

I bet they all live in council houses too, eh usual?

I read much more than I post and in my experience of MN you rarely see spelling or grammar corrected on the more supportive boards like relationships, occasionally in chat but usually only if the OP starts a bun fight and sometimes in AIBU which is obviously a bear pit.

Where it is done inappropriately it is usually challenged by other posters.

I bet they don't even have a degree

Yes it is usually challenged but tends to derail the entire thread in the process

Oh Jeanne, how clever you are

What usual said.

There are very few occasions where correcting someone's grammar isn't a personal attack. It's almost never meant to be helpful. It's an internet forum. Nobody wants to have their spelling and grammar corrected when they post. Unless you are absolutely sure the poster in question wants their post correcting, or you want to look like a twat don't do it.

There are very, very few posts that are so badly written they are unreadable.

Oh, shit, sorry, celibacy.

I forgot, I shouldn't use big words like irony.

Was that your point?

Or was it something subtler and almost witty?

Nothing to do with being 'plebs'. And no-one said that.
Nothing to do with having to have a degree. And no-one said that.
But all about basic spelling and grammar.

Why is that so difficult?
We should all be able to spell basic stuff (dyslexia aside) and use basic grammar, surely?

Writing 'should of' instead of 'should have' or 'your' instead of 'you're' or 'their' instead of 'there' (to give just three, very regular examples,) are truly basic things that we should all know.

I've reported the 'it's HAVE HAVE HAVE' posters and MNHQ agree with me.

They won't delete them though.

But surely in your opinion Celibacy Jeanne is perfectly reasonable to "pull you up" on your mistakes?

The other issue is if you explain you have dyslexia or dysautonomia which make you have issues you get accused of drip feeding and other nasty comments from people who clearly have a whole other heap of issues.

Pretty much Jeanne.

It is / They are. That was obviously my way too subtle nod to poor grammar.

My genuine mistake (serves me right) wasn't picked up on.

How ironic!