Has "Spelling and grammer" Ever Corrected One of Your Posts?

Sure. Who cares about being corrected when you're sneaking in posts at work at 90 wpm? Let the faggy fussbudgets fidget.

[quote]Get a life! wrote:

There isn't one compelling counter-point in your entire post. If anything, you are guilty of exaggerating this alleged problem.

The vast majority of people that find themselves on the receiving end of a correction are far from illiterate. If you are struggling to comprehend their message, you probably have some vocabulary issues of your own. In almost every intervention, the people that "Spelling and grammer" chooses to target are guilty of misusing one word, or perhaps even a simple typo.

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Counterpoint is one word, it is not hyphenated.

Toro-squeeze wrote:

Tori Spelling and Kelsey Grammer have never corrected any one of my posts!

That joke has been used before. Come up with something original.

Jed Babbin wrote:

This should be easy for you to prove your point.

Find two examples of S&g correcting obvious "typos" and give us links to them.

You made the assertion, prove it.

That is much easier said that done. As shown within the hyperlink that I posted earlier, Wejo's moderators delete those type of posts.

I did a search and actually found a thread where it was discussed that he did not correct obvious typos.

Oddly enough, I actually posted on that thread.

So, he is a troll with discriminating tastes? Well, in THAT case there's nothing wrong with it! LoL!!!

Get a life! wrote:

I'm sorry, but as Wejo himself pointed out people like "Spelling and grammer" & "Picking Nits" jump into the middle of a thread and contribute absolute nothing to the topic of conversation!

(a) Relax.

(b) ...contribute absoluteLY nothing...

(c) Take a deep breath.

(d) Relax.

Then again the original formulation by Lorenzo the Magnificent was fairly brilliant by local standards and deserved wider dissemination:

Toro-squeeze should've given props and/or a link though.

Read it? I participated in real-time.

So that's going to be our standard of banning: each post most directly address and advance the topic at hand, or else you're outta here? That'll be a pretty heavy handed form of moderation, and likely quite subjective just for good measure. To each his own, but that's not for me.

C'mon, if you're gonna be so humorless and defensive, you're not really gonna suddenly get the humor when someone explains the joke to you. Your question is disingenuous.

Fact is, some of the people find some of the posts funny at least some of the time. I'm not about to suggest the entire body of S&G's work be packaged and submitted for consideration to the Pulitzer committee, the genius grant people, MOMA or the Whitney Biennial. It's not that life-changingly brilliant. But I'm also not gonna suggest we have one person be the arbiter of what's funny and what's not; and if we did, you'd start pretty low on my list of candidates and would have to work real hard for my vote.

Nobody's requiring anything. The analogy would be, he's a regular who pokes fun at patrons with wildly mismatched or poorly fitting clothes. And let's move the setting from Denny's to a dive bar, which better represents the l-run universe.

So one evening he calls you on your plaid trousers which come down to mid-shin. You've got all kinds of possible responses including:

(a) laugh along with the rest of the crowd,

(b) ignore him (the "faggy fussbudget" comment above was pretty good),

(c) come back tomorrow night with properly fitting jeans,

(d) come back tomorrow night with a freaking stunning Italian suit or a tux,

(e) come back tomorrow night in a clown suit and red rubber nose, really get into the spirit of it,

(f) start a bar brawl,

(g) walk off steaming mad, come back weeks later and start threads about it, try to get some heavy-handed moderation imposed.

I'm gonna suggest even the bar brawl is more productive (and certainly more entertaining!) than the last option.

Let me remind you: this is an anonymous message board which does not (yet) even require registration. There's all kinds of stricter more heavily moderated running boards out there. Some people prefer them and won't come near l-run. If that's what you want, I'm not sure what's stopping you from participating in one of those communities rather than trying to radically change this one.

but english was my 2nd language. Cherokee was my first.

editors of letswrite.com wrote:

(far too much)

Hopefully your case of verbal diarrhea isn't contagious, so I will keep this brief.

I am not "trying to radically change" anything. I am anti-trolls, as I'm sure the vast majority of message board patrons are. The posts that both S&G and PN create are trolling in its most simplistic form. As I already stated, I am not trying to advocate radical change. If anything, Wejo is the one who suggested a complete ban on the grammar trolls. In contrast, I feel that as long as the moderators continue to delete childish trolling messages like S&G creates that's just fine.

I actually don't think you know what a "troll" is.

I am sure you will keep on blogging though.

Billy Goat Gruff wrote:

I actually don't think you know what a "troll" is.

I am sure you will keep on blogging though.

Actually, I have a much more accurate perspective than you will ever know.

I am sure that you will keep making unsubstantiated derogatory remarks though.

Get a life! wrote:

However, many other people are offended by your condescending garbage, including the people who maintain this message board...

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1787789

Why don't you simply take your "talents" somewhere else, where people will actually appreciate the so-called help?

What does that garbage link have to do with anything? Are you so oblivious and therefore helpless to trolling that you can't spot what becomes very clearly an obvious example? Do you also think that Wejo is serious about breaking the board up into multiple topic forums and didn't just start that thread to stir the pot and draw response? Do you really think that Wejo was ever serious about "banning" people for correcting the writing of others, especially when (to date) nobody's ever been banned for such an "offense"? Do you also believe that Wejo plans his travel, training, and life based on the input from this board?

Stop being such a sucker.

Billy Goat Gruff wrote: I actually don't think you know what a "troll" is.

Get a life! wrote: Actually, I have a much more accurate perspective than you will ever know.

Aha - a clue... I win, I win, I'm the first contestant to solve this little mystery!

Get a life! is actually Spelling and grammer, doing some masterful trolling here, so he can revel in others coming to his defense.

Bravo, sir. But I'm sure you'll agree, enough's enough, even for a celebrity of your stature. It'd get embarrassing real quick if you kept this up now that you've been unmasked.

I interped the comment of "INeedALife" to mean he is a mod so he knows the IP addresses or that HE is a frequent troll.

This does not seem to be S&g's style to do that. He rarely offers commentary on his posts, just states the facts and moves on.

S&g does NOT, contrary to what the one guy said, point out typos.

I do think S&g is a regular poster and do wonder what his regular posting name is;

Flagpole Willy? Probably not since he does not comment much and I don't think FW could keep his mouth shut.

Jim Fiore? Maybe.

Benji D? Maybe.

Sol Richards? Not a chance.

wejo? I think there is a good chance he is S&g and does it to stir the pot.

rojo? Maybe.

Gerry L. Maybe. He seems goofy enough to do this.

Suggestions from you all...

CSU Runner wrote:

S&g does NOT, contrary to what the one guy said, point out typos.

S&G does, contrary to what others have said, point out typos.

You can keep denying it until you are blue in the face, but that just means that you now have something in common with O.J. Simpson.

Where's the proof, ya dink?

On You wrote:

Where's the proof, ya dink?

Get a life! wrote:

That is much easier said that done. As shown within the hyperlink that I posted earlier, Wejo's moderators delete those type of posts.