Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake.
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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.
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@the_roamer @CiaraNi gosh! Shux. Swish.
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@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
@simplicitarian Excellent
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@the_roamer @CiaraNi gosh! Shux. Swish.
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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 cromulent
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@CiaraNi cromulent
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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.
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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 was similarly torn for a long time.
By now I’ve decided that if people want to enjoy my posts, they get to live with the edits.
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@flowerpot It's a dilemma. I try to catch anything quickly and in go at least, to limit the number of notifications from any one toot.
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@CiaraNi I was similarly torn for a long time.
By now I’ve decided that if people want to enjoy my posts, they get to live with the edits.
@slothrop I fix mistakes unashamedly when I catch them quickly after posting. I just felt I would be pressing the lemon (as we say in Danish) today, if I continued to fix multiple mistakes in the same toot, slowly and one-by-one. You'd think I'd learn from this and start to proofread my toots before pressing Send, but probably not.
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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 think lots of people have that concern.
If you want my 2 cents:
With respect to other peoples notifications, it's pretty easy on Mastodon to filter and remote them if it gets annoying.
IMHO you toots are always very interesting and deserving of getting a small error fixed, because that might be referenced in the future
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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
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I think lots of people have that concern.
If you want my 2 cents:
With respect to other peoples notifications, it's pretty easy on Mastodon to filter and remote them if it gets annoying.
IMHO you toots are always very interesting and deserving of getting a small error fixed, because that might be referenced in the future
@folfdk That is very kind of you - tak
And that's a good point about our ability to curate notifications. I rarely change my settings in Mastodon so I forget the different options and sub-settings.
