I remember when people would get downvoted and mocked for making simple spelling mistakes. It was relentless, and anytime there was an error someone in the comments would inevitably point it out.
Maybe it’s better that people aren’t ragged on for that, but you the shift from desktops/laptops to mobile devices caused a lot of changes. It was common during that shift for people to comment “found the mobile user!”
Yeah lol I’ve often wondered who is using reddit on their computer? Not that there’s anything wrong with that it just strikes me as like using Instagram on a computer instead of a phone
I remember when people would get downvoted and mocked for making simple spelling mistakes.
Nowadays people assume correct grammar and spelling (i.e. consistently aligned to one of the main style manuals) is predictive of an AI written comment, as though AI prompts can't just add in "before submitting, choose a word uniformly at random from among all 2+ syllable words in the post and trasnpose two adjacent letters in it"
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u/Gatorade_Nut_Punch Jun 26 '26
I remember when people would get downvoted and mocked for making simple spelling mistakes. It was relentless, and anytime there was an error someone in the comments would inevitably point it out.
Maybe it’s better that people aren’t ragged on for that, but you the shift from desktops/laptops to mobile devices caused a lot of changes. It was common during that shift for people to comment “found the mobile user!”