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No it's not. It looks like constructive helpful feedback to me. I, for one, appreciate people's grammar being better on HN. Granted, a private message would
by zeroer 10y ago
No it's not. It looks like constructive helpful feedback to me. I, for one, appreciate people's grammar being better on HN. Granted, a private message would have been better, but HN doesn't support that.
- inimino 10y ago> I, for one, appreciate people's grammar being better on HN. If you want to accomplish that by making non-native speakers feel unwelcome, unsolicited corrections are a great idea. Otherwise not so much.
- zeroer 10y agoNot in my opinion. My time is limited. If any speaker, native or non, doesn't want helpful grammar feedback, I don't need to read their writing.
- Kluny 10y agoThat's kind of what I was going for, yep. I use forums to learn foreign languages as well and I appreciate helpful feedback.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoIf you're aiming to be constructive, it would help if you introduced yourself and politely said what you were doing first, as Cauterized said. Just rewriting someone else's words without further comment sounds really blunt and condescending.