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(08-19-2015, 09:38 AM)LadyRochester Wrote: I personally take no offense when someone corrects me, even in a public channel. However, many people disagree and say correcting someone else is wrong.I can see it from both sides of things, myself. It might help explain their side of things. For example:
How are we supposed to improve if we are never made aware of our mistakes? As long as you are being polite and not an ass about it, I (personally) don't see a problem.
In my FC, one of the leaders is a literary agent. She spends all day reading and correcting grammar, spelling, etc. When she's playing the game all she wants to do is just... enjoy the game and not worry about perfect grammar. As long as things are readable and understandable, the odd comma or run-on sentence isn't going to hurt anyone. In a game where all you want to do is unwind, I can see where people would let their grammar or spelling lax a bit. Personally, I'm an English tutor at my university and I still make typo's when I'm playing. I don't really let it bother me and I've never had anyone else mention my poor use of a comma when we've been RP'ing. ^_^
Some people, though, just don't care and they will become annoyed or even angered anytime someone "dares" to correct them. Nothing you can do in these situations.
The odd person does actually want to have their grammar/spelling corrected, especially if they're using a word a lot and consistently spelling it wrong. I don't see any actual harm in trying to correct someone, as long as you are in fact polite about it, but at the same time... just expect that the majority of people aren't going to care. And some will just be outright offended by it.
Your options, in my eyes, are pretty simple:Â
1. Just don't correct anyone. If they have so many errors in their writing that it bothers you, odds are they aren't going to be able to easily fix the issue anyway. Might be best just to avoid RP'ing with them.
2. Continue correcting people, but don't be surprised when you receive a negative response. Some people may even become so annoyed with you that they avoid RP'ing with you in the future as a result of this, however.
3. RP with everyone, don't correct them, and don't worry about their spelling or grammar.
Option 3 is the least dramatic and would require you being able to get past your mindset of "helping" people. The other 2 options will, eventually, either alienate you from some people or alienate them from you. Either/or.