why does every one get mad over spelling errors.

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

One way to think of it, though: The person is taking the time to read what you have to say/ask/etc. If they have to take longer to decipher what you really meant, in the end you've wasted some of their time.

What Brandon fails to mention: what would I be doing with the time I lost reading a poorly-written post? If I'm on CD, I'm usually already blowing time (yay for wasting time on CD ), and if I'm actually looking for something, I won't just open a random thread; if I find a poor post in my searching, I'll skip to the next result. Really, I don't believe in that rationale. I do believe in that when it comes to e-mail, since you're likely to read that email with the misspelled subject line (if it actually got past your spam filter) and read through it, even if you're short on time.

EDIT: Hey, Brandon, is spell check ever going to make a comeback? Not that I need it, but a forced spell check before a user can post would help a lot with this issue...