The correct way to respond to misspelling and grammar

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Formerly Famous

Thank you kindly.

(The rule of CD never fails. When talking about spelling and grammar. You will mess up. )

This is the quintessence of the problem.

We're all human, and we all make spelling and grammatical errors from time to time (I'm guilty of the is/are mistake in some of my posts). We should make every attempt to keep these mistakes to a minimum (Firefox has a built-in spell checker), but sometimes they elude are detection.

Everything here is viewable by the general public, but we're not the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. We're not newspapers of record, and nor is the content written here sold to millions of people for consumption of news and entertainment. This is a forum designed to foster communications among participants of the FIRST community.

So yes, we should care about spelling and grammar, but we shouldn't let the zeal for absolute and obsessive perfection overtake our genuine purpose of inspiring students. Refusing to respond to a post due to spelling or grammatical errors is letting a personal vendetta get in the way of a actually helping them. Rather, we should kindly point out that proper spelling and grammar are essential to facilitate communications, while we also help them with whatever else they came here asking for.