Spelling Corrections

[SnowyCheetah]

I've seen, quite often whilst browsing the forum, a lot of misspellings of names and long words in thread titles. Of course they exist in posts themselves, but right now I want to focus on the titles. Do you think it would be a good idea for mods, as a courtesy is they feel the need/desire, be allowed to edit thread titles to correct errors like this?

[YFWE]

I dunno, I get just as annoyed at spelling errors as anyone, but no one is perfect. Such mistakes are an intrinsic part of internet forums. The mods can do it if they want, but I don't think it's going to kill anyone if they remain. They're just spelling errors; people still know what they mean 99 percent of the time.

[Moka]

Although I agree with you about the numerous spelling mistakes, I believe members should have the freedom to manage their own topics. When mods start editing people's posts that aren't against the forum rules, troubles arise. It would be seen as an invasive annoyance more than a courtesy.

As for the "something else" that can help the member spell correctly, many modern browsers have built in dictionaries that check the words you type into textfields for spelling mistakes. Not IE, of course, but I know Firefox does.

[Mike]

Members are perfectly entitled to spelling mistakes *shrug* I'd no sooner edit a thread title than a post.

[SnowyCheetah]

I guess I agree. Do you think there is anything that could be done to encourage members to check their spelling better, or should we just leave the issue be? Something tells me that no one really wants to spell-check their titles before every new thread... lol

[FlipMode]

Thread titles yes.. Posts.. not so much. Typos don't bother me though, I can hardly care for other people's typos, when 80% of my posts are filled to bursting point with them. And don't get me started on grammatical errors. I at least try to make it look tidy, but i'll be some kind of crazy to expect staff here to play grammar nazi with my posts / thread titles.

And an idea: MLK's queen / king off typos each month as an award ceremony... Though I think people would just try and win it lol.

[SnowyCheetah]

Whoooooa let's not encourage typos!

[KiarasMate]

*puts his nomination for KK away and grins innocently*

Yeah, agree with the rest of the mods. ^^ I'm pretty retentive when it comes to those kind of things, but that's just me and it's ridiculous to expect everyone to be perfect in that aspect. We all make mistakes every now and then...just some of us more than others.

[PrincessKiara]

Too invasive
Wouldn't it offend the thread creator by insulting their spelling skills?
The mods have better things to do with their time.
No... Just no.

[FlipMode]

[quote="PrincessKiara"]Too invasive
Wouldn't it offend the thread creator by insulting their spelling skills?
The mods have better things to do with their time.
No... Just no.

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Well this coming from someone who does indeed make a lot of typing erros / speling mistakes: No they probably wouldn't get offended by it, and why not? Well for one: there's a difference between actualy mis-spelling a word because one is unsure how to spell it, then there are simple slip of the finger typos. Mine are usually the latter and I really could care less if people fancy correcting them for me.

Even if we're talking about genuine mis-spellings, anyone who gets offended by someone correcting their spelling errors must be quite insecure about it imo... And probably really hate MS word lol.
I do think the mods (probably) have better things to do but also consider that fixing spelling errors in thread titles is ,unless I mis interpret the word.. some degree of moderation, is it not?