I just want to say 'Thank you' to DUer dballance

[LynneSin]

I'm human and like all humans I make typos and obvious grammar/spelling errors.

dballance noticed one in my recent thread and instead of being some annoying jerk that has to point it out in the thread in some snarky way, this DUer politely sent me a private IM telling me about it.

It was weird because at first glance I was offended, I suppose many of us get that way when someone points out 'you made a mistake'.

But then I realized that dballance was just showing class by privately telling me about it so I could fix the mistake.

I wish more DUers would think like that when pointing out other people's mistakes! We all make mistakes - let's show some class when we find them!

Thank you dballance!!!

[GentryDixon]

1. I agree.

I once got chastised by someone because my husband reheats his coffee in the microwave.

[arthritisR_US]

26. Why would reheating your coffee in a microwave

bother someone? Sorry I am so nosy but this has me curious

[GentryDixon]

43. This happened when I first starting posting to DU.

Last edited Fri Dec 7, 2012, 10:37 AM - Edit history (1)

I mentioned I had a cat (Marty Cat) who on one of his cat sprints through the house jumped up on the fireplace mantel and knocked off the urn containing my dogs ashes (Misha). I was on my way out the door to meet my carpool, so I just stuck the urn in the microwave until I could crazy glue the lid back on that night. I stuck Misha in the microwave because my husband hated my Marty Cat, and I did not want him to see what Marty had done. When the urn fell, it chipped a piece out of the granite hearth as well as knocking the lid off the urn. When my husband got up he opened the microwave to reheat his coffee and Marty & I were both busted.

So someone came on and told me that you never reheat coffee in the microwave, and the only true coffee was French Press. I felt like I had been scolded by one of my grade school teachers. Oh well, welcome to DU....

[arthritisR_US]

44. My cats are always knocking things down so

I once put a small arrangement of flowers in the microwave to keep them from chewing on the leaves and knocking them onto the floor.
I always reheat coffee in the microwave and tend to drink the brand that was on sale (don't have much of a discerning palett here..lol). What a petty and snobbish attitude to welcome someone to DU with. Hope your stay has been better and continues to be

PS. Thanks for the reply

[GentryDixon]

45. Yes, thank you.

I don't post much, but I do scan all day long. I am retired now, so I find myself pulling up the website in the middle of the night when I can't sleep. I have found I am not the only insomniac.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good for dballance!

A little caring goes a long way.....

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Grammar Nazi's are a necessary evil

they are the reason after all that DU is not the cesspit of mispelings tht is teh ress of intrnt.

[LynneSin]

5. That's true

But it's one thing when someone posts in your thread - 'Yo dumbass can you spell' and another when someone sends you a polite message to you privately pointing out your mistakes.

[AverageJoe90]

17. Maybe to a point.

Still though, I'm glad dballance did the right thing this time around.

[notadmblnd]

28. I only patrol the Nazis

I enjoy pointing out their mistakes while they are pointing out the mistakes of others. Or trolls, I like messing with the trolls too.

[2on2u]

30. I'll be most grammar nazis cannot read this, at least not right away....

Wow! I've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time I've seen it with numbers. From an email I received.

Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind.

And better than that: Alzheimer’s is a long, long, ways down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.

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H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
4U70M471C4LLY
W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
R3AD 7H15.
PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F
U C4N R34D 7H15.

To my 'selected' strange-minded friends:

If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it

FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT

[Auntie Bush]

36. 1F U C4N R34D 7H15 you are a fuggen genius.

[flying rabbit]

37. Interestingly enough, our primate bretheren have a similar quality:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=baboons-recognize-words

[narnian60]

4. I also would like to thank some DUers.

On election night I sent my very first OP and got a very snarky response from someone which made me feel like a real idiot. The following DUers came to my rescue with kind responses to my OP: randome, Posteritatis, obxhead, Jim, sufommich, & slampoet (& a special thanks to ragass who welcomed me with a warning that it can be tough sometimes here).

[LynneSin]

6. To be fair we got slammed with a slew of new DUers and many of them trolls

but as a whole we always try to welcome new DUers. Glad you stuck around after the elections and welcome to DU

[narnian60]

7. Understood.

[mac56]

9. I agree. Welcome

and thanks for being understanding.

[narnian60]

11. Thanks, mac.

[Skittles]

21. YOU WANT I SHOULD KICK SOME SNARKY ASS, narnian60

I'D DO THAT FOR YOU MY SWEET

[narnian60]

22. Yes, please, Skittles.

[LynneSin]

23. Geez Skittles, can you let them get about 500 posts before you start kicking their asses!!!

[Skittles]

24. I WILL KICK LYNNESIN POST-NUMBER PICKING ASS

YES INDEED

[AverageJoe90]

16. There's lots of nice people on this site.

Also, a warm welcome to the DU community........

[11 Bravo]

18. I'm glad you stuck it out. And WELCOME!

[libodem]

8. I have hellova time with this phone

I make mistakes all the time. When I hit 'L' it backspaces my last letter off.

[ashling]

10. My propensity to cut people off while trying to increase the volume

is legend.

[libodem]

39. I know

The wonders of modern science.

[Xyzse]

12. I have to agree with this

A lot of things can be avoided if someone would privately message someone with an objectionable post.
Particularly if it is only one or two words in it.

In that way, they can correct it without having to deal with the Jury system.

I think it is a bit neater and might avoid conflict.

[pinboy3niner]

13. ...

[JNelson6563]

14. Thanks for posting this.

Nice to read about DUers being considerate & thoughtful toward each other.



Julie

[99th_Monkey]

19. +100 nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. I like being proven wrong. That means I become wiser or get rid of a mistaken belief. +1. nt

[Rowdyboy]

25. I've done the same, and had the same done for me.... I too appreciated the DUer who helped me

and was thanked by the one I helped.

[Little Star]

27. That was nice & classy. Good on dballance!

[fadedrose]

32. Hi LS, fancy seeing you here - LynneSin has class too I noticed.....nt

[Little Star]

41. Hi there Rose. Yes she does.

[AverageJoe90]

40. Yes, I'll second that!

[JohnnyLib2]

29. Refreshing!

[fadedrose]

31. That's why there's an edit button...

When cool people like dballance want to save you from embarrassment without giving away your unawares that a mistake was made, that is real class...

and it's also classy that you made that OP . . .

[Bake]

33. I made a mistake one time ...

I thought I was wrong about something. Turns out I wasn't.





Bake

[fadedrose]

42. I see that as you were because you thought you were and you weren't...nt

[redwitch]

34. Are you sure that isn't dbalance?

Not to be a jerk or nuthin'.

[Auntie Bush]

35. As one of the world's worst spellers and typist....I second that!!!!!

[DCKit]

38. DU unto others.... nt