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<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 1133912" data-attributes="member: 4">I don't think any reasonable person is going to hold the occasional typo, misspelling, etc. against you.&nbsp; There's a world of difference between &quot;writing to get some ideas out there&quot; vs. &quot;writing publication-quality material&quot;.&nbsp; I think the amount of effort that goes into your writing should be proportional to its importance.&nbsp; On message boards, you're just shooting the breeze. I also think folks who offer unsolicited corrections are being kind of rude, or at the very least out to show how clever they are. This is, I think, a personality trait of many gamers, though -- if they have to choose, they'd rather look clever/smart/competent than be thought of as &quot;nice.&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I should add, though, that when publishers have mistakes like this on their websites or press releases, that does kind of make my skin crawl.&nbsp; But again, it's related to the importance of writing to their job and the products they're trying to sell me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 1133912, member: 4"] I don't think any reasonable person is going to hold the occasional typo, misspelling, etc. against you. There's a world of difference between "writing to get some ideas out there" vs. "writing publication-quality material". I think the amount of effort that goes into your writing should be proportional to its importance. On message boards, you're just shooting the breeze. I also think folks who offer unsolicited corrections are being kind of rude, or at the very least out to show how clever they are. This is, I think, a personality trait of many gamers, though -- if they have to choose, they'd rather look clever/smart/competent than be thought of as "nice." :) I should add, though, that when publishers have mistakes like this on their websites or press releases, that does kind of make my skin crawl. But again, it's related to the importance of writing to their job and the products they're trying to sell me. [/QUOTE]

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