Changing other's quoted text - bad, evil or indifferent?

[Umbran]

Re: Re: Re: Changing other's quoted text - bad, evil or indifferent?

Now, everyone please note that it doesn't take a moderator to beat hong with a stick...

whack!

 

[jdavis]

So, is correcting spelling and (honestly) clarifying meaning okay?

Corecting spelling could be considered rude or it could go unnoticed. Myself I make a lot of spelling errors that happen to coincide with the batteries getting low in my cordless keyboard, I wouldn't mind somebody fixing the error, but if they made a point of saying "hey you mispelled this" then that's unnecessary and nitpicky, particularly when it doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand.

Now clarifying the meaning of somebody elses post in the quote would be pushing it for me, clarifying what you are responding to would be ok.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I correct spelling when I see it in a quote, as I have more than once been accused quoting something misspelled to make the person I'm quoting "look stupid"

Sentence structure? That's their problem and theirs alone

originally posted by Hong

...kick me...

 

[Sixchan]

Corecting spelling could be considered rude or it could go unnoticed. Myself I make a lot of spelling errors that happen to coincide with the batteries getting low in my cordless keyboard, I wouldn't mind somebody fixing the error, but if they made a point of saying "hey you mispelled this" then that's unnecessary and nitpicky, particularly when it doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand.

Now clarifying the meaning of somebody elses post in the quote would be pushing it for me, clarifying what you are responding to would be ok.

When I sayc larifying meaning,I 'm referringt o things likep uttin gspaces in th ecorrect placess oy ou can actuallyu nderstandw hat is bein gsaidc orrectly.

 

[jdavis]

When I sayc larifying meaning,I 'm referringt o things likep uttin gspaces in th ecorrect placess oy ou can actuallyu nderstandw hat is bein gsaidc orrectly.

Well that's pretty much the same as fixing a spelling error then.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I can see altering long text if your change doesn't alter the meaning of what was said. But if it does change the meaning, then yeah, it's pretty evil.

 

[Berandor]

While trying the quick-reply, I will add that I agree with all of you.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I often cut out portions of quoted text. It draws attention to the relevant parts, and forces less scrolling.

When I cut out portions from the quote that are complete paragraphs, I don't make any special note -- a reasonable person should be able to tell that the person wrote more. (Also, quoting many paragraphs at once is usually overkill; only a small portion is replied to at a time.) If I cut text within a paragraph, though, I always add a bracketed ellipsis ([...]).