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Originally Posted by Pugchief
I'm all for not caring what other people think, but I find it really hard to take a post with poor grammar and spelling seriously. My assumption, right or wrong, is that poster's opinion is less likely to be worthwhile. YMMV
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Many blind people use special readers that allow them to post. Those readers aren't always accurate, as they are voice-to-text applications, and are dependent on what they "hear" you say, when they translate to text.
In addition, some people use predictive text to post, and while a word might be spelled correctly, it's the wrong word. But the device they're using doesn't know that you're trying to say "whose" and not "who's."
Lastly, some members are "English as a second language" posters, who might not realize that they're using an English word incorrectly.
I try to give people some slack when I notice a pattern, or a one-off typo. It might bug me if they constantly misspell words that are typically misspelled by full-grown high-school-graduate adult Americans who just don't care if they present themselves intelligently or not (such as two, too, to, tew, or weather vs. whether). Then again, I sometimes use run-on sentences. We all have our warts.