MetaTalk posts tagged with typos

Correcting Old Typos

Afroblanco — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:27:33 -0800

After no small amount of careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that is patently silly to correct your own typos from earlier in a thread. You can all stop doing it now. Thank you.

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Seriously. If what you meant in the first place is still quite obvious in spite of the typo, you're really only drawing my attention to it by correcting yourself.

Fix my Project!

twistedonion — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:52:52 -0800

Metafilter projects - very nice, but I made a mess up. I put the url link in the description and the description as the link - any chance someone could fix it for me? pretty pretty please? cheers!

Minor 'typing' errors

Frasermoo — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:11:46 -0800

oops, 'Piccadilly' - is it really necessary for everyone to correct extremely minor 'typing' errors with a follow up comment?

Category Typo

bricoleur — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:57:11 -0800

As a sop to us nit-picking philosophers, could the Religion & Philosopy category be renamed "Religion & Philosophy"? Sorry, I know painquale already mentioned this in a comment in another thread, but that was months ago.

Grammar Issue

divrsional — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:25:13 -0800

It's worth its weight in grammarcheck to use it's and its correctly.

AskMe Etiquette

tinamonster — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:31:17 -0800

Callout to take care in your AskMeFi posts:
"parking meters and nyc" question. Ummm... did you mean Fire hydrant?
"is there a well-known phrasing of the concept that 'the three (or bough, or branch)" Uhh... did you mean tree?
People seem to take extra care with spelling, phrasing and clarity in the blue and this is great but it seems like a poster should take even more care in the green because rather than offering information you are asking for it to be given to you. Just sayin'.

Follow-up post corrections annoy some people

stbalbach — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:46:29 -0800

Followup post corrections in th reads. Theydrive me nuts. It takesawayfr om the point your tryingto make. People knowwhat your tryingtosay. It disrupts the flow of conversation. Mostpeople are not spelling/grammer nazis. It looks worse to correct it.

Old Copyright Info

terrapin — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:58:29 -0800

I notice the copyright information on The Grey, The Blue and The Green all say 2000-2003.

Copyright Notification

Orange Goblin — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 02:34:47 -0800

© 1999-2002 The MetaFilter Network

Time for an update?

metafiler.com

staggernation — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:29:02 -0800

Picture, if you will, a web page. On that page, a single link. The text of that link: "Click here to find Metafilter." You click the link. The breath is ripped from your lungs as you are rushed headlong to the Ask Jeeves (UK) search results for the word "metafilter"!

...OK, there's really no way to make this dramatic. But have any other typo-prone users run across metafiler.com?

Two Small Questions

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 01 Jul 2002 13:14:41 -0800

Two itsy-bitsy questions and one trivial, infinitesimal footnote:

1)On MetaTalk's front page it says "There have been no links and no comments posted since your last visit". Since posts here aren't required to have links wouldn't it be better to say posts or, following the wording on the posting box, threads?

2)Why, when you go back to revise your new post, does the category selected always jump back to bugs? (Some posts mistakenly attributed to bugs are impossible to find through the category archives).

Footnote: Does anyone else feel slightly disappointed when they check in on MeTa and there haven't been any new posts for what seems like ages? Is this ethically deplorable in any way? ;)

Fix My Triple-Post!

Badmichelle — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:46:43 -0800

Erk. How do I undo a mistake? I think I just posted a comment three times. It's not showing up on the thread, but when I click to "comments made by this user," in my profile, it does show up. Can I erase it, somehow?

Callout: bad typing is no excuse for mockery.

skallas — Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:49:38 -0800

Mocking a typo is just childish. Would you guys please quit. No wonder there's so much anxiety about posting to the front page around here. Here's a gem of an insult:

I don't see why you'd wait until now to start laughing at science. You obviously laughed off English 101 without a sweat. -phalkin

MetaTalk Typo

gleemax — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 08:15:54 -0800

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