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.

AtomicDog I'm a rhotic speaker. I pronounce all my "r's". Say that Siobhan phonetic rendering and enunciate the "r."

Might start a thread asking if I should of been worried about the color of my diarrhea

The first post will best some asshat helpfully rewrîting it for you so hoi polloi can understand.

BE SOME

at cunty

For anyone who doesn't think this gratuitous correcting happens, there is a thread going right now in which the OP is seeking advice about a neighbor problem. The fifth responding post was to correct her word usage. But some of the posters from this thread were promptly on the case. So proud.

I haven't seen that thread yet SenecaFalls (will look in a mo)

But I feel uncomfortable that HQ are leaving this ever growing problem, up to other members to 'get on the case'.

The reason being because whilst others are (quite rightly) 'getting on the case', that alone can take the thread on a tangent, meaning the opening post can get lost amongst the grammar/spelling/ discussion/bun fight.

I'm all for self moderation but I do think HQ need to clarify their stance on this because it's getting ridiculous imo.

It definitely went off on a tangent, Worra, especially because the corrector made an error in her correcting post. I really feel for the OP who has a legitimate issue with her neighbor.

Couldn't resist this .... Never come across a post I couldn't read on here.

You can't have been on MN before usual got a new phone!

See, Gralick, you automatically corrected my 'tread' back to 'couldn't read' without pronouncing the whole sentence unreadable or questioning my intelligence.

I do try to be diplomatic

I am far too well bred to ever right anything more explicit than upset tummy in a school note. Now I am torn. I desperately want to be able to say "Doesn't It Always Run Rather Horribly Right Over Each Ankle"

Cannot believe I just wrote right instead of write! I was trying to distract myself from dd dressmaking meltdown!

There's some Internet Law, isn't there, that every post about SPAG will inevitably contain an error?

(You know how many times I had to correct that before posting, don't you )

Jeez, and your name wrong too, Gilrack

I was Gralick until last week! Here, have a soothing

I'm married to an oik. I'll get my coat...

My FIL left school at 14 to work on the family farm (rural Ireland, he's in his 80's now). He is the most intelligent man that I know, he can take one cursory look at something and work out exactly how it works and how to fix it, he has vast knowledge about things you'd never dream a 'little old man' to even know about. Due to his interrupted education his spag isn't great, he has done very well for himself regardless. People underestimate him, they are stupid to tbh.

It annoys me that somebody like him - who could probably beat the sneery twits hands down in a verbal discussion, would be looked down upon and assumed thick, just because his spag isn't up to some mystery standard upheld by the grammar bores.
Not that he'd ever come on MN :), but there will be people like him on here, amazingly sharp minded and clever people who have been denied the oppurtunites to expand their literacy, but who are just as bloody intelligent, if not more so than the dreary self appointed grammar monitors on here (and definitely nicer people to boot).

Met I can think of at least 3 very successful business owners I know, who never let their lack of spelling and grammar skills hold them back.

Yet if they came here, they would probably have their arses handed to them on a plate because of it.

Internet forums are a lifeline for some people, so it's awful to see them being 'shut out', by people who have nothing better to do than make themselves feel superior.

The thing is, if MN are going to delete these posts, where does it stop? Should we ask them to delete everything expressing particular political opinions? For or against abortion? For or against breastfeeding? Posts about manners?

To be honest, I wish grammar pedants wouldn't do it, not entirelybecause of the contents of their posts, but because every time they do this the thread gets totally derailed by at least 50 aggressive self-righteous types hoiking up their judgy pants and telling them off, generally repeating each other ad nauseam over several pages.

Rudeness + derailing + pile-on should = deletion of original rude post and reprimands to pilers-on. IMO. Let people answer the OP and be supportive.

I don't like deletion of posts or threads. I think posts should stand so everyone can see who's a cuntycunt, and threads should stay so we can all study the troll's writing style, thus recognising her/him more easily when they return after a nc. I would like goadyfuckers' threads/posts coloured shit brown, and threads locked.

I would like goadyfuckers' threads/posts coloured shit brown And a little turd icon next to their username ...

I used to know a forensic linguist. She was bloody brilliant. I'm completely crap at any of that stuff - don't notice namechanges; terrible at troll spotting; take all posts as offered. This is advantageous to my blood pressure, I suppose.

The thing is, if MN are going to delete these posts, where does it stop?

There are many forums where posts that derail the thread or that have nothing to do with the topic are deleted straight off. I wouldn't have a problem with that.

Maybe not for Chat, but for AIBU and Relationships it'd be ideal.

MNHQ always say they rely on reports of posts, but for those 2 boards I think they should be far more proactive than they are.