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Originally posted by Shaun
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Originally posted by Legend
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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 "housematez" 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.
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That's fair enough, because I can't recall having a go at you for spelling something incorrectly. But members who post with text-speech habits (such as "u" instead of "you" and other such things) irritate me the most, and they don't seem to acknowledge they're doing it. I appreciate that not everybody can be perfect all the time, but there's a difference between making a mistake every now and then, and continually making the same errors.
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No, you never have. But it sounded like you meant that basic spelling and grammar mistakes annoy you and when some people can't help it, having somebody pull you up on it doesn't help matters.
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Originally posted by ~kizwiz~
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Originally posted by Legend
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.
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Spot on!!!!!!
I am severely dyslexic but I use a computer which spells as I type.....without it you wouldnt be able to tell what I have written
If I had joined now instead of when I did..... and was treated the way some people are..... I wouldnt stick around that long
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see what I mean!!!!!!!!!!!
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Exactly, it's pety little stuff that people jump on and they do it with the intention of causing an arguement IMO. I think people do it because they feel that as they have "friends" on here then they've got people to back them up and that thread then turns into 5 older members ganging up on a new member and the forum then turns into a playground and it's not nice to read.