[rlt]

> People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so.

I've grown to appreciate unapologetic trolling of people who care way too much about what other people do to themselves or their own private property.

[duxup]

I'm a bad speller. At some point I improved, but on the early days of the internet I would intentionally misspell things as it just got some folks really going like a light switch ;)

[Zancarius]

It still does.

I'm not sure what benefit it is for people to point out such mistakes, but my biggest problem comes from glide typing. Often, my device decides it knows better what word I intended than what I actually intended. I've gotten to the point where I don't especially care about those mistakes either if it's an otherwise unimportant conversation.

I think there are just some people who care entirely too much about trivialities. It may be maturity, though. Where do you invest your energy? When you're younger, minutia can seem far more important than it does when you're older. It's still worth showing them some grace—they'll learn. Eventually. Maybe.

[dpark]

I don’t know if I’ve gotten lazier or the swipe typing has gotten worse but sometimes I compose entire paragraphs and then look down and see it’s mangled half the words.

I have to spend more time fixing the mistakes than I used to because when it goes off the rails it becomes unreadable. vs just messing up little stuff.

[rlt]

> I'm not sure what benefit it is for people to point out such mistakes

A feeling of superiority, of course

[xeromal]

One of my favorite pastimes. There's a facebook group I'm in that has a member that ran over some old plastic part of his car that people pay good money for and the amount of chaos it caused in the group was indescribable. I watch the video anytime I need a good laugh

[adolph]

Was it the protective packaging of Dodge sports cars that people thought looked cool and thus retained?

https://www.hellcat.org/threads/this-is-what-happens-when-th...

[rlt]

Hah, I didn't know until just now they weren't part of the design.

[KolibriFly]

But there's also a thin line between trolling and just being comfortable ignoring other people's expectations

[underdeserver]

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer. This is known as Godwin's law."

[mythas]

I always like to cite Benford’s law for this one.

[vondur]

I wonder if by work he means work issued or he just uses it for work?

[stephbook]

Explicitly mentioning it implies the more extreme version: Work issued.