Nice people also judge those who try to shame people (not all of whom are native speakers of English) into silence on health-related forum threads by picking on irrelevancies.
Yes, let's ignore non-native English speakers' mistakes. That way, they will never learn, and we can continue to subjugate them, along with those for whom English is a first language, but cannot speak it correctly, probably because they were never taught that "should have" is not spelt "should of" and that their "they're"s aren't quite there.
"Spelt", in my dialect, is incorrectly spelled, and is a noun referring to a variety of wheat.
Now, was the "correction" I just offered you
effective and useful, or was it merely irrelevant, provincial, chauvinistic, uninvited, uninviting, and just plain rude?
(A note to downthread grammar trolls: I just used an Oxford comma, boldly, without apology. Have fun.)
> those who try to shame people ... into silence on health-related forum threads
That's a bit overstated. But mechanical_fish is right that that my own choice of words could have been more tactful. That's why I changed "Syntax correction" to "Syntax tip" in the GP.
I like to deliver my occasional spelling correction comments like this: "Polite spelling correction: word, not werd". Opening the comment with "polite" seems to be a very good way to flag that you're not trying to engage in any power games or whatnot.