Topic: Opinion on Spelling Check (Read 252 times)

I agree with you that theymos won't consider a spell checker because of people don't know how to speak English and write English. If I don't know how to speak English or how to write then U would use translator before I finish studying English and also use grammarly to correct any mistakes in grammar and also the spelling if there's any. Well, there's also local board if a person doesn't want to join English discussions or lazy enough yo study English language.

I don’t think Theymos would consider adding a spell checker as a forum feature. Non native English speakers often use Grammarly to remove errors in their writing. I can’t speak for pc users but for me, I use a mobile to access the forum and my device keyboard highlight’s misspelled words and autocorrects them. Autocorrect can be frustrating when you’re making posts that contain crypto terminologies and slangs that aren’t grammatically correct words like hodl, rekt e.t.c.

My laptop has a spell checker by default, that's help me to not write incorrect words. I might did a mistake, but usually I read my post after I post, if I notice there's a mistake, I'll correct it.

As the forum is really welcome with people who aren't fluent in English, it doesn't need a spelling check in this forum. Regardless you make many mistakes or use Google translate, if you ask a genuine question, I believe you will not have any problem.

Nope, that's fine since the spell checker only detect small letters.

I believe that it's good the way it is and we may not need any spelling check feature on the forum. Sometimes good users make spelling mistakes because they use various devices to write their posts. The ones who use laptops or PC may not have any spelling issues in the first place but the ones who use smartphones to write posts may face some spelling issues.

I don't think that with a spell check or without it we can notice hacked or sold accounts. The users are also humans and they can improve their writing style overtime and it may not be an indicator to find the stolen accounts. By the way, once can easily use a service like Grammarly to fix all the spelling and grammar issues and the hackers or the ones who buy accounts are well aware of such services these days.

Yeah I guess I don't have this problem when I use my mac vs my android on a dell doc when I am writing many of my posts. Guarnateed I probably even have spelling/ grammer errors in this post. You also bring up a good point, that hackers would be more on point with their writing and just because people either might have bad grammer or spelling or whatever it doesn't mean that they lack intelect, maybe they are just in a huge rush or have other pressing matters to attend to? Who knows.

you know the saying that anything that is worth doing is wort doing well with?

As long as we know that the forum is a discussion forum and that it requires writing on a regular bases, it becomes necessary to improve on our writing skill if not for ourselves, but for the sake of the person reading what we've penned down at the other end.

I think this is not necessary at all though your intention is good.
As long as your post is readable and understandable without violating forum rules that's good enough while you're here in the forum.

Besides, we can install a spell checker on our own and that's our responsibility to check or double-check before you post it, and don't forget to hit the "Preview" first before the "Post" button.

I tend to agree with their suggestion above, Grammarly helps you with this and I think you didn't use it now.

If there was a spell checker we would never have the expression HODL lol

I'm always in favor of things being as original as possible, without boring spell checkers.

Everything is better if it is more natural, including spelling mistakes, after all we are here talking on a forum, it is not an academic work or anything like that

I also want to say that the forum is actually better without a spell checker, I think if someone needs a spell check then they can use extensions like Grammarly spell checker.
Basically I'm not a native English speaker myself, so sometimes I need to check spelling on my forum posts and this Grammarly extension made it easy for me, also you can see your grammar mistakes by using it. I think that without proper wording, the meaning of a post can never be easy to understood and since the forum doesn't have this feature specifically, I would say that it is better to check them personally.

I use android, phone highlights or auto-corrects words automatically irrespective of Bitcointalk having native spell check.


Nah, I expect proper spellings, if Bitcointalk doesn't have native spell check, one should take care of it oneself. Not caring for spellings makes it seem like you don't care for what you write, and it has nothing to do with authenticity. Grammar is alright as long as sentence is understandable, but spelling, no. Myself use Google to search for spellings when keyboard fails.

Your intention is good but having a spelling check makes the content easy to understand for readers and that will benefit the majority of the forum compared to having an identity of doing a frequent wrong spelling.

I usually use grammarly to correct my grammar and spelling when using my computer. The only time I didn’t use an app that will correct my sentence is through phone. Checking our spelling manually while there’s an app to do it is just a waste of resources and time.

Does the forum assume the responsibility for spelling check or your keyboard while typing which is obviously as a result of your device settings that permit for that, secondly, why is it necessary that you make a proofread of your post content before sending it to be posted, spell check is not what needed more of our attention than the way we should give it to every piece of information we are typing to ensure that they are not wrongly typed, this is more of our personal error which we can work on and not the forum for us.

I don't care if we have this function or not but all English writers should be up and doing and not make excuses for spelling errors. We can't do without making mistakes but limiting it to the barest minimum will save us a lot and also continue to add to the quality of the forum.

There are spelling checkers naturally built in many browsers, one can make use of them to be more thorough in the correctness of what they write. Some software corrects spelling for you better than the browsers too, one can explore them as well for the good of the forum. However, it is not everyone that can speak fluently or write proper English. The forum pardons such too, which makes the checker unnecessary.

I have been using Grammarly extension to help me with mistakes I make when typing or creating a post. seeing that you make a lot of mistakes makes you realize that you need to improve and there is nothing wrong with that. also, training yourself to double or triple-check your words is always better than not, it shows that you want to improve.

Not more real or authentic, what it does is it allows non native speakers to be able to communicate the way they know how to. Anyone who needs spelling checks can add that to their keyboard, but for thosewo do not, they should be allowed to communicate how they are comfortable.

You will already be able to recognize a change in posting pattern if a prominent user's account changes hands.

I don't believe the lack of spellcheck makes this forum more "real" or authentic.  Actually, I've seen many other forums I know don't use spellcheck either.  This probably owes to how spellcheck can be kind of a pain to configure and keep up, and it could also slow the forum. 

Basically, what makes a forum real or genuine boils down to the value of the conversations occurring there.  And for spellchecking better to put it on the user side, like in web browsers.

Android keyboards like Gboard have spell checkers ^(optional), some browsers have that features and optional too, but usually it really came from keyboard settings. On desktop or browsers usually a browser extension is used for spell check.

It doesn't make sense, bitcointalk doesn't differ from other forums, most people uses abbreviation or slang words in socmed or even in other forums especially in reddit. So spell checkers won't be necessary. And having correct spellings won't tag people as more intellect than the other. The point is, as long as people can communicate and can be understood.

That means you are using phone, those computer browsers that I have used have spell check themselves. I think  Windows OS that I am using makes it like that. But on Android phone, I do not see spell check there. I use Edge browser and everything you wrote incorrectly are going to be highlighted in red under the words. Do not expect this forum to do all for you.

You are relating it to scammers and hackers. Don't your know that scammers and hackers can also write good English and use the right tools needed for it.

You can use Grammarly for spelling check, grammar check too.

https://www.grammarly.com/

Using this website for checking and correct grammar mistakes will help you improving your English writing a lot and it will help you to compose your post better, in sentence structure and grammar.

The bottom line is ideas for your post must come from you and good ideas will lead too quality post with good writing skills including grammar.

It might depend on your computer, but I personally have spell check. I don't really think it matter a ton as long as we can understand what you are saying, but I agree that it can help when you see something out of character for a user. Doesn't mean for sure the account is hacked, but makes you want to keep an eye on the person for a bit.

Well, I think the forum is good without having any spell (word) cheker just like Microsoft(but it will not cause a problem if there was such a feature). Even if the forum had such a feature, accounts that are bought or hacked will definitely get detected because the tone of speech for the original account owner will never be the same as the tone of the hacker or the buyer. Also, there could be some experiences that the original account owner might have shared, and if the hacker makes a comment contrary to what the original account owner has said, it will be taken note into account.

For example: I got into Bitcoin around 2019, and I have made that statement here several times, if, for example, my account got hacked and the hacker said anything that is contrary to getting into Bitcoin early before 2019 or late after 2019, then it will be quickly taken note of.

Even if the words are the same as those of the original account owner, the statement will definitely not be the same, the ideas will not be the same, and the statement will take on another tone. If also the original account owner has posted any Bitcoin wallet and perhaps the account got hacked, the hacker will have to sign a message with the private key of the original account owner, and since he doesn't have access to the wallet, he can't sign a message with the old wallet of the original account owner and therefore will be caught.

So, even if the forum has a spell check feature, hacked accounts and bought accounts will definitely get exposed.

I know this isn't exactly microsoft word but I am curious to know if you think that the Bitcoin Talk Forum is probably more real and authentic because of the lack of a spell check? I think that in addition to being able to guage intelect and a sort of personality traits to pick up from the readers perspective recognizing proper spelling habits in any users helps you know whether or not a person is out of character due to a hack or something of that sort and now we have an account under the control of a hacker/scammer. I think its honeslty great that we don't have a spell check because I think it always has you second guessing yourself and thus training you to always double or triple check your words on a public forum.