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This sounds like exactly the type of pedantry that is dragging down Stack Overflow.

• Theodores 12y ago
  I am all for plain speaking English which in my mind is different to the English that people use for txts and is different to the convoluted English people use to show off (e.g. using big words and long sentences when something to the point will suffice). However, Stack Overflow is a reference work, and, for questions to have value to a wider audience, they do have to be to a certain standard. It is the same with Wikipedia, you don't get lazy lols plz txt spk in articles found there. People need to appreciate this when asking questions. Basic secondary school level English is all that is asked for, not anything more. I have problems with how the 'edits' is game-ified in such a way that crimes of the English language pass the process. I also think that something could be done when questions are submitted to raise the bar. I appreciate that people need an answer quick, so fwr kstrks and tipos mightnt mater to them but I don't see how the 'agreed on' forms of English, as taught at school, counts as pedantry. You should try being a moderator one day...