as someone who misspells stuff constantly in comix
this
this x100

The sad part about this, is that you can mention this thousands of times, and folks might never learn.

a girl can try

No harm in trying.

GAH dat face in panel 1. ;.;
How do even your half-assed doodles look so expressive and cute. D:

I think the schadenfreude element is the main reason people point out spelling errors in public settings.

Oh lord, this is a problem that tends to poison so many net forums (DA <cough>).

Its not clever, its being an peenwack.

That should be "a" peenwack, not an.


*troll face* :D

im glad you think thats cute and clever, I don't.

im also so proud that you're displaying your e-peen so flamboyantly, such a large e-peen, that being a collossal peenwack is more important to you than actually trying to be a decent person and learn something. Its sad tiger, you never used to be this much of a jerk.

The problem sometimes is the more you tell people online what annoys you, the more people tend to purposefully do the thing that annoys you to try and be clever :( It's pretty sad

On the other side, there's the people who are afraid to point out mistakes, even in private, for fear of upsetting someone.

The key message of the pic is this: It isn't that you're correcting someone's grammar and spelling, it's WHERE and HOW you're correcting it. Saying it via a private note is just more polite than shouting out the error in a public forum like FA or Facebook or something similar. I will have to remember this in the future :) *Hugs*

YES!

I disagree. Any time I've pointed out someone's misspelling "in public" is simply because leaving a comment is much easier. That way you can also avoid the issue of several people pointing out the same thing.

Huh. Never considered that before. *nods* I'll endeavor to correct people in private from now on.

For some reason it does feel as if we all have been degraded socially since the obsession with 100 percent correct spelling.
Instead of making compelling arguments we merely try to find 1 spelling error and be a dick about it.

Truly one of the most annoying.things of this day and age.
(of course with the spelling like awr gijurl y da sklz zo bd n staff it is completely justified. But minor things lett em be, right?)

thank you!!!

The comics that are sketchy messes i make for FUN, and typesetting the dialouge is tricky at best, if people are going to correct it, fine, do it privately. because doing it in public REALLY is very rude.

Well the "hide comment" button was invented for a reason.

Sadly we need that button sometimes. *sigh*

see i dont like doing that because i have litterally seen instances where the owner of the page is accused of "hiding" criticisms etc, and often times people are seen as childish when they hide said comment, because no-one but the artist and the commenter knows what was said depending on how long it was left unhidden, i pride myself in having an "uncensored" comment page for the mere fear of being accused of hiding something.

On that front, I'll half agree. I try not to use the hide-comment button, but when I do, it's justified. There are some cases where hiding the comment (and thus declawing the troll who's trying to start a flamewar) is the best thing you can do. Only time I've ever used it was when someone made a... somewhat NSFW comment about one of my characters on a submission I've since deleted. He's still the only entry in my FA block list.

That said, I do use the "hide comment" button on my own comments... usually when I realise I've misspelled something or what I've said (while accurate) could be very twisted and misconstrued. I guess that's a bit of a double standard...

This is the worst considering that it would completely derail the comments. Comment on the art please, not my horrible grammar.