Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

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Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Poll ended at 05 April 10 7:05 pm

Yes. I like to have a nice clean listing.
31
58%
No. If you found the cache then that is enough.
8
15%
Whatever! Who cares...
14
26%
 
Total votes: 53

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Richary
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Re: Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Post by Richary » 13 September 10 11:34 pm

Be nice if he could even spell the name of the place correctly. It's Thirlmere. Sheesh.

Tuena
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Re: Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Post by Tuena » 13 September 10 11:36 pm

No.

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Re: Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Post by SA_ParrotHead » 14 September 10 2:54 pm

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gmj3191
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Re: Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Post by gmj3191 » 14 September 10 5:35 pm

It really annoys me when I hear people say

"I'm bored of that."
"What a fun thing to do."

and similar grammatically incorrect phrases, but it boils down to the fact that we are seeing the language evolve and at some point these glaringly incorrect phrases will suddenly be correct through common usage.

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GammaPiSigma
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Re: Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Post by GammaPiSigma » 14 September 10 5:52 pm

SamWalkers wrote:What I really hate is < font size="3">< b>w< font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">hen < font color="#000066">somebody uses < font color="#FF0000">embedded html to < i>fancy up their comments but < i>miss part of the mark up and turn their comments into an illegible jumble.
Brilliant, funniest thing I have read all day. =D> =D> =D>

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Re: Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Post by garnercx » 16 September 10 3:08 pm

GammaPiSigma wrote:
SamWalkers wrote:What I really hate is < font size="3">< b>w< font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">hen < font color="#000066">somebody uses < font color="#FF0000">embedded html to < i>fancy up their comments but < i>miss part of the mark up and turn their comments into an illegible jumble.
Brilliant, funniest thing I have read all day. =D> =D> =D>
The worst thing about these HTML markups, is that the font size change breaks the horizontal scrolling on the Geocaching app, so you have to scroll left and right on every line to read previous logs.

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Re: Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

Post by garnercx » 16 September 10 3:10 pm

The only grammatical advice I have given was when a possessive apostrophe was missing from the cache title. It was well received.

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