Shortly after I posted something today, I noticed a spelling mistake.
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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. -
@mycrowgirl @Tarnport Good advice and good strategies. I have latched on to the term 'vanity edits' immediately because it's so useful. Agreed - if an error doesn't impact the meaning, then most people won't care, only the person who wrote it.
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@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.I'm using Tusky on my mobile and can remove "Post edits" from my notifications if I want
