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Originally posted by Shaun
I'm really pedantic when it comes to spelling/grammar. I probably shouldn't be, but there's little anyone can do about that. 
[apart from spell correctly, I guess.]
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Maybe get a little more tolerance? I've spent years in school trying to improve on spelling and not using "their" for "there" etc, it doesn't come as easy to some as it does others and people shouldn't be jumped on for that because it really does get to you and it is SO irritating when I see people climb on that high horse and point out MINOR spelling errors towards new members because they feel they can.
It's understandable that text speech gets annoying if it's every other word but sometimes I feel that "older" members like to jump on new members over pety text speech, perhaps they feel they have a right? I was reading some of my posts from when I first joined this forum and I spoke like a complete moron, used a lot of text speech and not once did I have somebody make a snide comment, talk down to me because of it or treat me different because I was a new member. After a month or so I grew out of it and got a U2U from one of the mods reminding me about it
politely.
After all, it's the mods job to do that, not ours. And as somebody said up there ^^, the majority of the time, I feel that people "call new members out" on spelling mistakes/text speech/replacing an "s" with a "z" for an arguement, to make themselves feel superior on the forum because if I saw a post with "housemate
z" in it, I wouldn't care less, it's not preventing me from reading the post or understanding it and I wouldn't think twice about climbing on that high horse, but some can't help themselves and it's off putting to new members. I'm glad I joined 2 and a half years ago because if I'd have joined around now and got the response new members get from "oldies" then I wouldn't stick around.