I always wondered what the forum looks like to a mod. Turns out not that much different, just a few more buttons. It must be nice to see a little gear in the corner of *all* the posts;)
Well, as @mlnevese said, the mobile version doesn't show everything...and personally I hate the mobile version for this... maybe because I mainly use it, as I often am not in front of a PC in my free time...
I always wondered what the forum looks like to a mod. Turns out not that much different, just a few more buttons. It must be nice to see a little gear in the corner of *all* the posts;)
Well, as @mlnevese said, the mobile version doesn't show everything...and personally I hate the mobile version for this... maybe because I mainly use it, as I often am not in front of a PC in my free time...
;P
I hate mobile sites. All of them. I do not understand why they exist. Often, you can't even get all the features that the site is supposed to offer. Inalways switch to full site whenever i can.
I have mine turned off. It "corrects" to wrong spelling and grammar more often than it gets things right. If I have errors in my posts, I want them to be my own responsibility. I often go to Google and check difficult to spell words while posting now. It's good practice to look things up, and proofreading as carefully as possible helps keep my mind sharp.
Also, auto-correct often screws you on homonyms like too-to-two, their-they're-there, and its-it's, substituting the wrong one even if you type the right one.
@Anduin , I hope you won't think me rude, since it goes to my point, to point out that your post from July 2014 in this thread has an incorrect use of "it's" in it. It should have been, " Its crusade against bad spelling...", with no apostrophe. We can give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that autocorrect did that.
Autocorrect doesn't help with correct punctuation, either. It needs to just go away. Computers are terrible with languages, because languages are too complicated to put all the possible contingencies into a program.
The only I thing I like in autocorrect enabled keyboards is the suggestion feature. It does save some typing sometimes.
Anyway I have no idea how many times autocorrect changed a technical word or acronym in a message I was sending and I noticed it too late to correct...
@BelgarathMTH Haha! No offence taken. Plus that is not rude. This is rude.
You really don't want to see this...
It is just rude...
Very rude, what do you expect to see?
Look... I warn you... This is so rude, the colours themselves hurt your sensitive eyes...
My phone takes the blame. When I write, I use a keyboard. Not a screen display. But my phone is so handy and guesses my words for me, most of the time...
As a teacher, I should be an ambassador for correct punctuation and spelling...
But I cor be arrrrsed. This is my funtime goodtime hidy hole playthingywingy. Lets not be tooo sensible peeps.
In my view it is absolutely stone cold EVIL. As to it's lawful or chaotic bent, that could be debated. I think that it absolutely sews chaos and entropy, however by design or not I can't say. I do think that it is methodical and meticulous in it's exactness.
I think if Freud were around today he would say that auto-correct was an offshoot of our ID and often times 'Allows' us to express our true feelings. I think that if Nietzsche were around he would say that it is simply a nihilistic distraction.
But far to much damage and mayhem has been done in pursuit of autocorrect for it to be anything other than EVIL incarnate.
I've never used autocorrect as I normally have no trouble whatsoever with spelling (aside from tpyos). Unfortunately my handwriting is so terrible that everyone assumes I can't spell. (seriously it's so terrible that I had a scribe for gcse and A level)
I've found autocorrect to be quite useful as a scapegoat for when I make a mistake. "I put an apostrophe before EVERY S in that post? Stupid autocorrect!" "Oh, yeah, I totally meant to put there instead of their. You know how that autocorrect is!" "What? I told you to die in eternal hellfire while demons feast upon your soul? Dang autocorrect! What I meant to say was you're a talented individual who deserves all the best in life."
I once had to explain a situation that had happened at work via email to my boss. His response was, "While I emphasize with your position, this is what I recommend."
And the way I know it is evil is that the auto-correct on both my phone and on my PC can never EVER find the word that I mean. I'm a pretty poor speller, but some of the really obvious things that I want it to find are apparently an alien language to the computer. It has to be intentional. No two ways about it. The program is intentionally not knowing what I am trying to communicate.
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I hate mobile sites. All of them. I do not understand why they exist. Often, you can't even get all the features that the site is supposed to offer. Inalways switch to full site whenever i can.
(Casts resurrect thread.)
Also, auto-correct often screws you on homonyms like too-to-two, their-they're-there, and its-it's, substituting the wrong one even if you type the right one.
@Anduin , I hope you won't think me rude, since it goes to my point, to point out that your post from July 2014 in this thread has an incorrect use of "it's" in it. It should have been, " Its crusade against bad spelling...", with no apostrophe. We can give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that autocorrect did that.
Autocorrect doesn't help with correct punctuation, either. It needs to just go away. Computers are terrible with languages, because languages are too complicated to put all the possible contingencies into a program.
Anyway I have no idea how many times autocorrect changed a technical word or acronym in a message I was sending and I noticed it too late to correct...
My phone takes the blame. When I write, I use a keyboard. Not a screen display. But my phone is so handy and guesses my words for me, most of the time...
As a teacher, I should be an ambassador for correct punctuation and spelling...
But I cor be arrrrsed. This is my funtime goodtime hidy hole playthingywingy. Lets not be tooo sensible peeps.
I think if Freud were around today he would say that auto-correct was an offshoot of our ID and often times 'Allows' us to express our true feelings. I think that if Nietzsche were around he would say that it is simply a nihilistic distraction.
But far to much damage and mayhem has been done in pursuit of autocorrect for it to be anything other than EVIL incarnate.
Like:
So I am not a mage and then come back a bit maybe gain a level or two as I am not a mage.
Unfortunately my handwriting is so terrible that everyone assumes I can't spell. (seriously it's so terrible that I had a scribe for gcse and A level)
I was like, damn times must be hard in Brynlaw haha
edit: on second thought, I just realized that pimpin' is probably the most common profession on that island...
"I put an apostrophe before EVERY S in that post? Stupid autocorrect!"
"Oh, yeah, I totally meant to put there instead of their. You know how that autocorrect is!"
"What? I told you to die in eternal hellfire while demons feast upon your soul? Dang autocorrect! What I meant to say was you're a talented individual who deserves all the best in life."
Also, I didn't realize they had so many priests in New Delhi...
And the way I know it is evil is that the auto-correct on both my phone and on my PC can never EVER find the word that I mean. I'm a pretty poor speller, but some of the really obvious things that I want it to find are apparently an alien language to the computer. It has to be intentional. No two ways about it. The program is intentionally not knowing what I am trying to communicate.