I’m looking for some clarification/feelings on the social norms here surrounding reporting typo/malapropism-like errors in posts. So far I’ve been sending a few by PM the way I’m used to doing on some other sites, as a way of limiting potential embarrassment and not cluttering the comments section with things that are easily fixed, but I notice some people giving that feedback in the comments instead. Is one or the other preferred?
I also have the impression that that sort of feedback is generally wanted here in the first place, due to precise, correct writing being considered virtuous, but I’m not confident of this. Is this basically right, or should I be holding back more?
Personally, I’d prefer typos and other mistakes in my own posts to be noted publicly rather than privately. (I don’t know how common this preference is, of course.)
Yeah, typo-threads are pretty common and in my experience well-received. We have lots of non-native speakers on this site, who I think also tend to be particularly open to feedback on phrasing and nuanced grammar things.
Do what you like. I’d say that some people want to know, some don’t. I wish we had tags like “typo” or “nitpick” because I might want to make a self aware comment that was one of those but we don’t right now.
I suspect people like corrections but it’s a hard thing to navigate with kindness at the forefront of “it’s spelt wrong”
I’m looking for some clarification/feelings on the social norms here surrounding reporting typo/malapropism-like errors in posts. So far I’ve been sending a few by PM the way I’m used to doing on some other sites, as a way of limiting potential embarrassment and not cluttering the comments section with things that are easily fixed, but I notice some people giving that feedback in the comments instead. Is one or the other preferred?
I also have the impression that that sort of feedback is generally wanted here in the first place, due to precise, correct writing being considered virtuous, but I’m not confident of this. Is this basically right, or should I be holding back more?
Personally, I’d prefer typos and other mistakes in my own posts to be noted publicly rather than privately. (I don’t know how common this preference is, of course.)
Yeah, typo-threads are pretty common and in my experience well-received. We have lots of non-native speakers on this site, who I think also tend to be particularly open to feedback on phrasing and nuanced grammar things.
Do what you like. I’d say that some people want to know, some don’t. I wish we had tags like “typo” or “nitpick” because I might want to make a self aware comment that was one of those but we don’t right now.
I suspect people like corrections but it’s a hard thing to navigate with kindness at the forefront of “it’s spelt wrong”