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If you make a grammar/spelling mistake in your comment and realize later will you edit it to fix it? (self.casualconversation)

submitted 7 months ago by therealjcdenton to c/[email protected]

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I know I will, but it also leaves an edited mark on the comments so I'm curious about your thoughts

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I've got thick fingertips and so use swype extensively, which sometimes leads to mistakes which are still words so don't look wrong at a glance. One feature I liked at The Other Place was that it didn't mark a comment as edited if you edited it within a minute, so I got used to giving everything an extra pass right after submitting to fix any errors.

I don't have that here, and am trying to train myself to go back over everything again before submitting, but repeat offenders like "of/if", "your/you're" and "to/too", among other less frequent errors, slip through. Sometimes I leave it, usually I'll fix it. I didn't mind the "edited" mark too much, especially if the associated time is before anyone replies.