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Don't misspell things in your quotes.
Don't be a dick.
How were they being a dick?
Edit: Bah. Never mind. I see they made that comment multiple times.
I support properly characterizing people, and highlighting that someone is adding in misspellings while quoting others is fine to me (because it’s insulting and portrays the quoted more negatively than necessary - we should avoid that and let folks stand on their actual words). But repeated verbatim statements without elaboration… Does feel dickish.
Me too. But a blunt instruction isn't the way to do it.
Highlighting the misspelling is fine (edit: especially in a quote!). "Don't do it" not so fine. Who knows if that person is dyslexic for example.
That’s totally fair. For some reason that just flew past my head while thinking it through.
Masses of misspellings are also made by predictive text entry these days.
I think if you're going to quote something you need to make an effort to make sure it's correct. It's OK to make a mistake, but we're in a time where everything is being used to weaponize your emotions and manufacture outrage. It'd be more than a full time job to tell people to correct their quotes, I don't think an explanation is necessary.
"dont mizpel fings in da boat herp derp' 🖕