Can I make a suggestion?

[Cousin Dupree]

Please proofread your posts. If it’s worth posting, it’s worth taking the time to make sure it says what you intend.

[USALiberal]

1. Not sure I understand what you are asking. Nt

[Cousin Dupree]

2. LOL

[panader0]

3. I'll do it for ten cnets a wrod.

[Shell_Seas]

5. I'll do it fer nien!

[paleotn]

16. Nein! Nein!

[rzemanfl]

4. What I hate is posting something chiding a typo in someone's post.

Then having someone point out the typo in mine. It happened to me this morning (not for the first time).

[DontBooVote]

8. I know, right?

[rzemanfl]

9. Right.

[DontBooVote]

11. I've done the exact same thing, lol.

[Javaman]

6. for what you said I am for sure! nt

[Codeine]

7. Minor typos

or the occasional grammar slip are no biggie, but people post outrageously illiterate screeds here occasionally and still expect to be taken seriously.

If you’re going to punctuate your sentences with multiple commas where you want periods,,, or use six or seven dots for an ellipsis........ or use an apostrophe for a plural’s,,, ........ you’re going to look silly and undermine your argument.

[SlogginThroughIt]

10. just say no to literacy shaming

Notice I had to edit

[Codeine]

15. Nonsense.

Look at surrounding posts; is anyone else using commas in strings to end thoughts? Are their posts cut into manageable chunks by paragraph breaks or are they unreadable walls of unbroken text? Are they averaging fifteen dots per ellipsis?

If the answer to those questions is no, then you merely need to follow suit. Don’t create your own unique rules for punctuation and then exprect me to read without scoffing.

I’m not asking that we all post as though we are Gore Vidal or Harlan Ellison (I’m barely able to express myself better than a twelve-year-old at the best of times) but a minimum standard isn’t an unreasonable request.

[SlogginThroughIt]

20. I am only joking....

sometimes on this site if you criticize anyone for anything you get accused of “_______ shaming”.

[Codeine]

21. Oops!

I blame Trump; he’s killed satire.

[MineralMan]

14. Very true. Typos aren't an issue, really. We all make them,

especially if we rely on Autocorrect on our mobile devices.

One error that frequently occurs, however, is misspelling a prominent person's name in the title of a post. Very often, that person's name is correctly spelled in an excerpted quote in that post. I find that to be very troublesome, since Google actively spiders DU posts, which can then appear near the top of Google search results. If a name is misspelled, it might not be noticed by Google, but it will surely be noticed by DUers.

Any poster can edit their own post after it has been published on DU. It's a great idea to proofread your post immediately after it appears in a thread. Once you click or tap "Post my reply," the next thing you see will be your post. Why not review it right then and make any corrections that are needed immediately? If you misspelled someone's name, and see it correctly spelled in the body of your post, please fix it.

Thanks.

[Sherman A1]

12. May I point out that

many folks are posting on the run from mobile devices that use autocorrect and sometimes the AI overrides even the best of intentions. We all prefer perfect spelling and perfect grammar, however should we all wait until conditions are absolutely ideal to share our thoughts and opiions?

People make errors and mistakes, at last report we are all human.

[imanamerican63]

13. Who are you talking about?

Sinfully yors, Donnie

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Are you sure you didn't mean "youre's"?

[imanamerican63]

18. Need to ask Donnie T.

[dalton99a]

19. I suppose it's helpful

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Irregardless and for all intensive purposes, theirs nothing to profreed for me. nt

[LuckyCharms]

23. People who don't proofread are loosers.

[java108]

24. You CAN...

Whether you MAY or not is still up for debate.