[fractus2]

Curious to see the posting habits of head-fiers. I do both most of the time, just because I'm a terrible speller and like to see how the post will read.

Do you think it's a good thing to re-read your post before you hit submit, if anything to double check to see if what you meant to say is being brought across the nether space to your readers? Someone said in the TIO thread about bitterness in the forum (found it, it's below) and I think it hits the nail on the head. The same can apply to e-mail.

I hope this post can stay here and not be moved to TIO.

To Mods: Let me know if the language of the quote is too TIO and I will edit.

Quote:

sarcasm and sense of humour do not come across well in ASCII. People don't know when you're being deliberately strident as an attempt at humor. One man's overly-strident is another's just plain mean, if you know what I mean. I mean, it's like a cultural thing. Some people are real sensitive about that stuff, having not been exposed to it too much, and cry like little girls at the slightest insult to their intelligence. Others are a bit more thick-skinned. Also (sorry guys) you have to account the age factor. Some people just don't have the experience of dealing with trolls, and the ability to recognize them, and the wisdom to just ignore something like that.

 

[Sol_Zhen]

For you IE users: ieSpell add-on for IE

Works great!

 

[Mr.PD]

That spell check program looks interesting. What I normally do if I think my spelling may be bad, is copy the post into Outlook Express as a new message and check the spelling there.
As you can tell, I don't do that Everette.
I do read through my post before posting but I don't use the preview function. I am already too slow now, I don't need any more steps to slow me further.

edit I just ran that spell checker that was linked above. Very nice.

 

[spaceman]

Quote:

Originally posted by Sol_Zhen For you IE users: ieSpell add-on for IE Works great!

Thanks for the heads-up Sol_Zhen...great add-on.

 

[Outdoor Man]

I'l juust hid supmiete.

Peter.

 

[penvzila]

Sometimes I do, sometimes i dont. It's enough to know that I know how to type and speak.

 

[Mr.PD]

Quote:

Originally posted by Sol_Zhen For you IE users: ieSpell add-on for IE Works great!

Yes it does. Thank you for that information. I tried it out on my previous post. Much quicker than opening a new message in Outlook Express.

 

[MetalHead666]

I just hit submit.

Quote:

Originally posted by Outdoor Man I'l juust hid supmiete. Peter.

I was gonna do the spelling error funny thing , but im too late. .(sigh). . .

 

[dhwilkin]

Bah, using a program that checks your spelling for you is the wussy way. Every post of mine is personally checked for spelling errors. Note, I don't care so much about correct grammar.

 

[usc goose]

no time to spell check. i try to have a median post time of no more than 15 seconds. which explains a lot.

 

[Rizumu]

I preview. Which is the same thing as spellchecking for me since I'll catch any errors that way.

Sometimes I hit the post button though and have to read over my post and edit it

Like I just did

 

[Gergor]

Quote:

Originally posted by Rizumu Sometimes I hit the post button though and have to read over my post and edit it

That's call "postview" (as oppose to "preview").

And yup, I do that a lot.

Edit: Opps, I just did it again!

 

[averydonovan]

I do preview a lot, and I check to make sure nothing is obviously mispeeled.

 

[Gergor]

Quote:

Originally posted by donovansmith I do preview a lot, and I check to make sure nothing is obviously mispeeled.

LOL!

 

[fractus2]

Quote:

Originally posted by Sol_Zhen For you IE users: ieSpell add-on for IE Works great!

I'll check this out when we get home. Thanks for the tip Sol_Zhen.