Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake.
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@CiaraNi As we can mute notifications easily, you can edit how much you want!
@NatureMC Thank you
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Excellent!
You know what? Your post has made me realise... It shows we're just human. And that's fine
@grb090423 A generous way to look at it. Thanks
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Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake. I fixed it and hoped the ’Edited’ notification wouldn’t bother anyone who’d interacted with the toot. Later I saw I’d mangled the name of the book I’d quoted from. I fixed it, sheepish about another notification. Now I’ve seen *two* more typos. I can't decide which is more embarrassing: leaving the mistakes or interrupting people with Notification 3. On the plus side, though, nobody can accuse me of using AI to right my wurds.
@CiaraNi it's a fascinating problem, huh. There's no one answer but I share your mulling. I've about decided that if it's a substantial edit that changes the core meaning of the post, then I go back and do it no matter how far it's spread. But if it's what I call a "vanity" edit - just because I wrote red instead of read or messed up spacing or an apostrophe - then I leave it stand after even the first retoot. Today I wrote existently instead of existentially and I don't think anyone will notice
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@grb090423 A generous way to look at it. Thanks
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@CiaraNi it's a fascinating problem, huh. There's no one answer but I share your mulling. I've about decided that if it's a substantial edit that changes the core meaning of the post, then I go back and do it no matter how far it's spread. But if it's what I call a "vanity" edit - just because I wrote red instead of read or messed up spacing or an apostrophe - then I leave it stand after even the first retoot. Today I wrote existently instead of existentially and I don't think anyone will notice
"If it's what I call a "vanity" edit - just because I wrote red instead of read or messed up spacing or an apostrophe'
This is a great way to look at it and a great strategy. And 'vanity edit' is the perfect phrase. The latter two mistakes I caught in the multi-mistake toot are 'were' instead of 'we're', then 'in' instead of 'is'. In context, they don't matter, the meaning of the sentence is clear. So it'd be a pure vanity edit. Wise tip, thanks. I'll leave them be.
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Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake. I fixed it and hoped the ’Edited’ notification wouldn’t bother anyone who’d interacted with the toot. Later I saw I’d mangled the name of the book I’d quoted from. I fixed it, sheepish about another notification. Now I’ve seen *two* more typos. I can't decide which is more embarrassing: leaving the mistakes or interrupting people with Notification 3. On the plus side, though, nobody can accuse me of using AI to right my wurds.
@CiaraNi Ha
I was far more busy in a Canadian forum between 1999 and 2010. Most native English speakers , but not all, like me. Making mistakes, ( Talking about the Bald And The Beautiful -TV series popular with people around me at that time. Instead of Bold )
Now checking twice before posting.
Did it help ? No. even nowadays, always at least one mistake when I read it the day after. -
@CiaraNi Ha
I was far more busy in a Canadian forum between 1999 and 2010. Most native English speakers , but not all, like me. Making mistakes, ( Talking about the Bald And The Beautiful -TV series popular with people around me at that time. Instead of Bold )
Now checking twice before posting.
Did it help ? No. even nowadays, always at least one mistake when I read it the day after.@hanktank61 I'd watch The Bald And The Beautiful! And that resonates about checking it. Makes no difference, the mistake only becomes visible after posting, it's like the law or something.
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@hanktank61 I'd watch The Bald And The Beautiful! And that resonates about checking it. Makes no difference, the mistake only becomes visible after posting, it's like the law or something.
@CiaraNi Even now: Mixing up Bald and Bold again.
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Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake. I fixed it and hoped the ’Edited’ notification wouldn’t bother anyone who’d interacted with the toot. Later I saw I’d mangled the name of the book I’d quoted from. I fixed it, sheepish about another notification. Now I’ve seen *two* more typos. I can't decide which is more embarrassing: leaving the mistakes or interrupting people with Notification 3. On the plus side, though, nobody can accuse me of using AI to right my wurds.
@CiaraNi i feel this so much 🤭 and i often edit things multiple times and then feel guilty about it.
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Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake. I fixed it and hoped the ’Edited’ notification wouldn’t bother anyone who’d interacted with the toot. Later I saw I’d mangled the name of the book I’d quoted from. I fixed it, sheepish about another notification. Now I’ve seen *two* more typos. I can't decide which is more embarrassing: leaving the mistakes or interrupting people with Notification 3. On the plus side, though, nobody can accuse me of using AI to right my wurds.
I have the same problem, often, and the same hesitations about edits. I don't mind at all when others edit their posts in post (ha!), but some people seem to mind, so I tend to leave typos uncorrected unless they really change the meaning substantially.
As a perfectionist, I find letting the typo stay very hard. My solution: I treat the uncorrected typo as a mark of the spontaneity of the medium, turning the pain of finding a flaw into a celebration of transience.
I don't mind you editing your post at all: edit away!
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@CiaraNi i feel this so much 🤭 and i often edit things multiple times and then feel guilty about it.
@venetiana The mistakes hide until after we've hit Send, I'm sure of it.
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I have the same problem, often, and the same hesitations about edits. I don't mind at all when others edit their posts in post (ha!), but some people seem to mind, so I tend to leave typos uncorrected unless they really change the meaning substantially.
As a perfectionist, I find letting the typo stay very hard. My solution: I treat the uncorrected typo as a mark of the spontaneity of the medium, turning the pain of finding a flaw into a celebration of transience.
I don't mind you editing your post at all: edit away!
Edit away. Do your thing. People have the tools they need to control their experience.
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"If it's what I call a "vanity" edit - just because I wrote red instead of read or messed up spacing or an apostrophe'
This is a great way to look at it and a great strategy. And 'vanity edit' is the perfect phrase. The latter two mistakes I caught in the multi-mistake toot are 'were' instead of 'we're', then 'in' instead of 'is'. In context, they don't matter, the meaning of the sentence is clear. So it'd be a pure vanity edit. Wise tip, thanks. I'll leave them be.
@CiaraNi awh. That's what we're here for, to share and compare!
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@CiaraNi awh. That's what we're here for, to share and compare!
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I have the same problem, often, and the same hesitations about edits. I don't mind at all when others edit their posts in post (ha!), but some people seem to mind, so I tend to leave typos uncorrected unless they really change the meaning substantially.
As a perfectionist, I find letting the typo stay very hard. My solution: I treat the uncorrected typo as a mark of the spontaneity of the medium, turning the pain of finding a flaw into a celebration of transience.
I don't mind you editing your post at all: edit away!
@the_roamer Thank you.
Leaving typos uncorrected if they don't change the meaning substantially - that's a good strategy. Not bothering with 'vanity edits', as I now call them, after learning the phrase in this thread from @Tarnport, who has the same strategy.
'I treat the uncorrected typo as a mark of the spontaneity of the medium.' That is a nice way to put it and to look at it.
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Edit away. Do your thing. People have the tools they need to control their experience.
@xankarn @the_roamer Thank you for the generous and supportive perspective
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@Flatus There is something in that. Generative AI has made me value spelling mistakes, blurry photos and amateurish Graphic Design Is My Passion graphics. The digital fingerprints of humans. In the case today, though, I managed four unnecessarsy mistakes in one small toot. That may be too much human.
@CiaraNi@mastodon.greenExactly. That’s why an artist like Gudrun Hasle matters to me.
Her spelling isn’t a mistake, but a signature and a reminder that language, like bodies, is imperfect and alive. -
Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake. I fixed it and hoped the ’Edited’ notification wouldn’t bother anyone who’d interacted with the toot. Later I saw I’d mangled the name of the book I’d quoted from. I fixed it, sheepish about another notification. Now I’ve seen *two* more typos. I can't decide which is more embarrassing: leaving the mistakes or interrupting people with Notification 3. On the plus side, though, nobody can accuse me of using AI to right my wurds.
@CiaraNi The health centre I go to introduced one of those AI notetakers a while ago. I’m happy that my doctor doesn’t use it - I can tell because her notes are so full of typos
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@the_roamer Thank you.
Leaving typos uncorrected if they don't change the meaning substantially - that's a good strategy. Not bothering with 'vanity edits', as I now call them, after learning the phrase in this thread from @Tarnport, who has the same strategy.
'I treat the uncorrected typo as a mark of the spontaneity of the medium.' That is a nice way to put it and to look at it.
