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by quirkafleeg 3327 days ago
(Hate doing this, but as it's not a typo but a common mistake that may spread)

The noun is advice. Advise is a verb.

(AFAIK this isn't a British/American difference.)

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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355449 and marked it off-topic.
This is bizarre. Informative, factual posts that are not rude or insulting are "off topic" now?

It wasn't a grammar Nazi post or about a typo, advice/advise is a common and easily corrected error that should be corrected, and I did so as politely as possible. Most people would appreciate it (I know I would).

All you've done by removing a single post (with multiple upvotes) from the thread is increase the chances that other people will copy/make the same mistake.

Edit: in fact it's even more baffling than I first thought, you didn't even remove it, you simply moved it to a position where some people, if they get that far, will not understand what it's about.