Not at all! - like I said, it's fine to ask for clarification. You should just do it in a way that is clearly distinct from chastising someone for typos. That wasn't clear in your post.
This doesn't mean that intent has to be stated explicitly—it just has to be clear—especially, clear enough to be distinct from ordinary kinds of internet attack, when those are not what is intended.
> This doesn't mean that intent has to be stated explicitly—it just has to be clear—especially, clear enough to be distinct from ordinary kinds of internet attack, when those are not what is intended.
So... you're recommending a polite request for possible typos to be fixed because of the confusion being caused by them?
I'm recommending that you focus on meaning rather than spelling, and in particular to disambiguate your comment from pedantic nitpicking. I get that you didn't have the latter in mind, but your original comment didn't make that clear enough. As a result, it snapped to that grid in my mind, and probably other users' as well.
Fair point. I could have and should have done better. Sadly the edit window has passed otherwise I would clean up the original. In a sense, this more or less represents the core purpose of an MVP in action. The author might take the same lesson and revisit this essay in light of the feedback here (or just abandon it as a misstep that is not worth the effort to refine). I was sincere in saying that I appreciate the effort to get something out and start a conversation. While I disagree with most of the essay, there is certainly something to be said for striving to produce high quality work in everything we do. An MVP mindset can be an excuse for not holding ourselves to the highest standard (case in point, me posting a thing with half a dozen typos).
ChatGPT can you write me a response that includes enough typos to look human, but not enough that I look like a prince from Nigeria tracking down relatives to give them money?
