Half your posts are specific questions to a specific game which could be answered by searching Google. Such posts do not promote open discussion.
And you might need to check your spelling a bit.
If you had a post like ‘I really love Red Dead Redemption 2 (note spelling is correct here) for (insert mission here)’, other Lemmy users might chime in with their own favourites.
So you need to curate your posts a bit. Maybe stick to commenting for the time being.
I don’t think it’s fair to OP to criticize their spelling. English may not be their first language. Even if it was, we shouldn’t penalize people for making innocent mistakes.
I understand your concern. I wouldn’t be criticising their spelling in the main body of the post, but at the very least they should be spell checking the title. An occasional typo is usually forgiving but if the Lemmy feed is showing a post with many spelling mistakes it’s not going to go down well.
Learning spelling and ensuring it is correct is part of learning a language.
If I was posting in a Chinese forum, I would be very careful to ensure the Chinese characters are correct. Differences in minor radicals can make all the difference, e.g. 慢 and 漫 are distinctively different words. It’s a different kind of spell checking.
I’ll admit I didn’t go through that many of OPs posts when I made my original comment to you so I took a closer look. It looks like OPs titles suffer from bad grammar more than bad spelling. The only real spelling mistakes I found was “redemtion” on a few of OPs posts which can be excusable if you’re just spelling it how it sounds. I 100% agree with you people should do their best to proofread their posts, especially titles. I just don’t feel it’s justification enough to downvote someone.
We even have computers (which OP is definitely using) to help with spelling mistakes. I say this as a spelling-troll who hates making errors who still makes errors.
Right. If and when I post in French or Spanish or Gaelic on a sub that is more than a language practice, though - in consideration of the reader - I’ll have my stuff checked. It’ll be by an AI, so there’s the hallucination risk, but at least I’ll have it checked. Even grammarly is a train wreck for non-american English, but it’s good for catching the really bad mistakes in English and maybe others.
I don’t see where someone’s criticizing for writing in a second language. I see where someone is expressing worry about content posted without getting it checked. Do we not want our questions to be read? Do we not want to make it as easy to get an answer as possible?
Remember when we used to see this?
Search first, ask later. On most forums, there are certain questions that come up again and again. …
Choose wisely. There are many, many forums out there. …
Breathe. …
Write like you made it through grade school. …
Be complete, but concise. …
6.Proofread, then proofread again. …
Half your posts are specific questions to a specific game which could be answered by searching Google. Such posts do not promote open discussion.
And you might need to check your spelling a bit.
If you had a post like ‘I really love Red Dead Redemption 2 (note spelling is correct here) for (insert mission here)’, other Lemmy users might chime in with their own favourites.
So you need to curate your posts a bit. Maybe stick to commenting for the time being.
I don’t think it’s fair to OP to criticize their spelling. English may not be their first language. Even if it was, we shouldn’t penalize people for making innocent mistakes.
I understand your concern. I wouldn’t be criticising their spelling in the main body of the post, but at the very least they should be spell checking the title. An occasional typo is usually forgiving but if the Lemmy feed is showing a post with many spelling mistakes it’s not going to go down well.
Learning spelling and ensuring it is correct is part of learning a language.
If I was posting in a Chinese forum, I would be very careful to ensure the Chinese characters are correct. Differences in minor radicals can make all the difference, e.g. 慢 and 漫 are distinctively different words. It’s a different kind of spell checking.
I’ll admit I didn’t go through that many of OPs posts when I made my original comment to you so I took a closer look. It looks like OPs titles suffer from bad grammar more than bad spelling. The only real spelling mistakes I found was “redemtion” on a few of OPs posts which can be excusable if you’re just spelling it how it sounds. I 100% agree with you people should do their best to proofread their posts, especially titles. I just don’t feel it’s justification enough to downvote someone.
We even have computers (which OP is definitely using) to help with spelling mistakes. I say this as a spelling-troll who hates making errors who still makes errors.
Right. If and when I post in French or Spanish or Gaelic on a sub that is more than a language practice, though - in consideration of the reader - I’ll have my stuff checked. It’ll be by an AI, so there’s the hallucination risk, but at least I’ll have it checked. Even grammarly is a train wreck for non-american English, but it’s good for catching the really bad mistakes in English and maybe others.
I don’t see where someone’s criticizing for writing in a second language. I see where someone is expressing worry about content posted without getting it checked. Do we not want our questions to be read? Do we not want to make it as easy to get an answer as possible?
Remember when we used to see this?