s/o Correcting other people's grammar/spelling errors

I would have appreciated what you did and how you did it. Probably would have been a little embarrassed but glad to be able to fix the problem. The call out on the other thread was mean spirited and uncalled for. In my opinion it should have been handled differently. Public shaming is never a good idea.

I don't on Facebook or message boards other than occasionally joking about something if their autocorrect or spelling changes the word or meaning to something funny.

I did send an email to a college because on their website they had a link to a "Handboob" rather than Handbook and I thought that may not be the image they wanted to portray.

I also replied to a friend who put a link to their new business website in their Facebook link because they used the wrong "there, their, they're" on the first screen. I thought that was ok as it was a new site and she wanted feedback.

I don't typically correct others because I'm afraid my correction will have an error in it.

I had to correct a co-worker on lose/loose and abscess (she was spelling it abcess). But these are for chart notes. I hate doing it but sometimes it's necessary.

I think the way you PM'd about the title and said nice things about the layout was a very tactful way to handle it. I would not have told you off!

I rarely correct anyone, unless I am asked to proofread something. I do cringe a lot!

Personally, I would have been grateful to my mistake to be pointed out. The rude response was really unnecessary.

I've seen polite suggestions for someone to correct a spelling error on thread titles (Downton Abbey instead of Downtown Abbey, for example), and I don't see anything wrong with it that. However, if general grammar, punctuation and spelling errors on a message board make you crazy, it's probably best to walk away.

Unless it is work related, I don't do it. I can think of one time I poked fun at it on Facebook. Someone said they were sitting around a bomb fire. I suggested he move his chair back.

Like I said in my other post, unless you are my mom or me teacher I don't need you to correct me. It's rude.

Oh, that's a spectator sport at my house.

[Pet peeve: it's bad enough when news anchors use "I" instead of "me" when ad libbing, but now it's being WRITTEN IN in scripted shows all the time (or maybe the actors are changing it 'cause they think it sounds funny?)]

I recently applied for a position at a university. There was a GLARING typo in the auto-response to my emailed resume submission...I mean the kind of error that is stunningly obvious and beggars belief in that it could have been missed-particularly at an institution of higher learning.

There is no way in HELL that I am going to point it out though. If I get the job? Sure, but right up to that point? Not going to happen. I don't want to be that know-it-all before I even get my foot in the door.

And that's how I feel about correcting other people's errors.

It would have bothered me to be corrected in a private e-mail. Mostly because it is from a stranger and it's just a scrapbook page. If I were looking through a friends album and saw a grammar/spelling mistake and knew they wouldn't care then I *might* say something. Even then, it's their page, their album, and their mistake.

Well, apart from all the people who view it in the gallery she posted it in, obviously, and she may have been grateful to have learned of her mistake and been glad of the chance to be able to correct it - you just don't know.

OP, If I had made the Masada/Maseda mistake and received your private email, I would have been grateful. Seriously. I am a bit OCD about correct spelling/grammar and would hate to have that error in my scrapbook or posted in a gallery online for all to see.

I remember this debate raging on the old board back when Creating Keepsakes was still around. We would spot glaring errors in published layouts. Some would wonder why the mistakes weren't corrected before publication. Others would wonder what difference it made, since we were looking at the layouts for inspiration and not for accuracy of content.

Personally, if I had an error published in Creating Keepsakes, I would have died a little inside.

But then, I talk to the TV, too.

I've been an auditor for many years, so I basically tell someone they've made a mistake every day   But that might be why I don't correct people online or in general when they haven't asked or I don't need too. I do get asked to proofread for co-workers often. But unless someone has asked, I don't proofread or advise just because.

I'm very careful in how I communicate errors to people and because of that I've been lucky to always have a good relationship with the people I audit and work with. A lot of making the correction is about delivery but some of it is in the receivers hands. 

OP you were very nice and polite in your pm. You were of the, just wanted to let you know I noticed this style. The reciever was someone that didn't want to know. Which you can't always know before you try to help.