Is It Just Me Aging and Getting Increasingly Grumpy

[The Roux Comes First]

Or does anyone else feel smitten by laziness on the part of posters here, failing to proof their posts for wrong words, missing words, and other sloppiness?

I.e., common courtesy!

[Scrivener7]

1. I think the former. Also, are you sure you want to use the word "smitten" here?

"Bothered" or "annoyed" or, depending on your personality, "irrationally enraged" maybe, but did someone really smite you with their bad grammar or spelling or punctuation? If so, a video of the smiting would be appreciated.

[Lifeafter70]

5. Now I'm really confused

I thought the op was just overwhelming attracted to those of us who fail at proof reading. 😉

[Xavier Breath]

12. Show me someone who can't spell or write a lucid post and I'll show you a smoke show.

[The Roux Comes First]

17. Points Taken!

[displacedvermoter]

2. On fairness, auto correct is raising hell with

sending things. I find myself having to go back and edit because auto correct made me write something I didn't intend.

[displacedvermoter]

6. Like I meant to write "In fairness" and it came out

"On fairness", which sounds like a philosophical treatise or Papal Encyclical...

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Same Here

And to compound matters, typos I've made get imbedded into the logic and it calls for words that are actual typos and replaces the correct word.
I'm thinking about shutting off autocorrect.

[Bettie]

3. Depends on the day

I tend to use proper grammar and spelling, unless I am posting from my phone....then, all bets are off.

I avoid having to do it from my phone because of this.

It's also why I edit so many of my posts, because I will miss a typo and end up having to go back and fix it.

But as long as I can understand what the poster was getting at, the autocorrect in my head works fine!

[enough]

9. "On behalf of" is also puzzling in that phrase. Maybe the whole post is satire?

[Wifes husband]

7. Word police

[Xavier Breath]

15. Meh, could be worse.

[mr715]

8. Have you read the Hill or Politico?

The number of typos are grammatical errors are through the roof.

[Swede]

11. As I get older, my spelling accuracy is floating away...

And I don't care, also because I am getting older.

[Emile]

13. I'm getting less judgmental in my old age.

[MiHale]

14. Or you put up a disclaimer ... like my sig line.

Who am I to mock a typo, when I have created so many myself, they are my legacy.....N_E_1 for Tennis.

A quote from the former…me.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Choose your battles and suffer the consequences. ❤️

[orthoclad]

18. Is it laziness?

It seems that more and more posts are what I call "blank" posts, which consist of nothing but a link to some other site. This disturbs me, because so many of those links are to out-and-out evil sites like google (including googletube), meta, or x. Almost as bad are the links to unknown potentially spyware-laden sites.

The internet is home to Bond villains, thieves, and other bad actors these days.

I wish posters would take the trouble to write a sentence or a paragraph describing what the link is about, before we either
- monetize Musk, Zuckerberg, Brin or some other vampire oligarch
- expose ourselves to possible spyware bad actors.

It has something to do with informed consent, ya know.

Sometimes I feel generous and ascribe this to the proliferation of snark phones with their tiny screens, hard to type on. Other times I think it's a sign of advancing illiteracy .

If the poster can't take a minute to type a description or summary, I certainly can't waste my time watching/listening to ad-filled videos or clicking on iffy links. This "laziness" seems very rude to me. It's saying that MY time is not important compared to the poster's time.

[The Roux Comes First]

20. I Hear You Loud and Clear

[orthoclad]

21. I think a "blank post rule" would

vastly improve the dialog here. And would stop empowering bad actors like Musk.

[GenThePerservering]

19. The typos don't bother me like the opaque titles

'Question'
'So...'
'And so it begins'

Etc etc

Cute, but uninformative. Not everyone has time to open.every.post.

[orthoclad]

22. Yeah. Clickbait.

I was taught that expository writing should be clear. Or at least attempt clarity.

[Wednesdays]

23. And, "TURN ON (whatever channel) RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!"

With no further information.

[madinmaryland]

28. CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER, RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!

Why do u want me to do that? Also, he’s a repubican and he wont listen to me. Even though we went. To college together.

[Disaffected]

25. And the hyperbole.

"Trump panics, humiliated, desperate" etc.

"Turn on your TV RFN!!!!"

[Beartracks]

29. A lot of times I try to cram my entire post into the subject line, if it's short. LOL

[Disaffected]

26. Not exactly smitten, more annoyed. nt

[dem4decades]

27. It's the internet, sharing ideas quickly, shit happens.

[H2O Man]

30. Does neatness count?

[Norrrm]

31. Spill chick helps but it's not perfect.

[multigraincracker]

32. I'm on the dysgraphia spectrum.

Had an Anthropology professor explain it to me. Even though I was a psychology major, never heard about in those classes.
She explained to me that is the message is conveyed by the author to the reader the grammar is correct.
No one, not even me can read my handwriting. My mother was an English teacher and had me practice writing and spelling forever. Finally gave up.
For your and my sanity, just let go of it.