Boorish Blogging

February 24, 2007 / by MentalHealthRN

  Good Manners and Blogging

      

It appears that there are no "lists of good manners for blogging."  The only interesting comment I could find was  "Good breeding = good manners." I am sure there is a list, or even a few books out there  about this subject, but I think  anyone using good common sense doesn't need a list or a book of "how to."

I was reading different posts this morning and I kept running across comments from another blogger. Of course we all welcome comments, however, someone critiquing and correcting what we write in my humble opinion is impolite. 

 Unless someone has asked you go correct their blog, I think it is in poor taste for anyone to go around "correcting" someone  writing.  Great, so you taught English at Harvard and Yale for 87 years, good for you, but please don't correct my post. My errors belong to me. I might even like them that way.

If someone feels compelled to correct me, please send an email.

Sorry, maybe it is PMS, but it rubbed me the wrong way this morning.

Happy Saturday y'all!

                     

 

32 comments on Boorish Blogging

  • nutcasenumbernine said 1 years ago
    I totally agree - I've sen a lot of this lately[THUMBDOWN]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    Thanks, I'm glad it isn't just MY PMS[BLUSH][WINK]
  • southwesterngrad said 1 years ago
    I don't know about blogging manners, but I do know about Miss Manners. At our house, it was Mom's Manners, that we followed. I told both my girls early on that the quickest way to lose a friend was to correct them, either grammatically or otherwise. No one likes to be corrected--even when he is wrong--it puts that person on the defensive, makes him uncomfortable in the presence of that individual, as, as I again reminded Kenna and Holly, sooner or later you will make a mistake and they will on you like butter on a hot potato. [OHMY][SAD][HUH][GLARE]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    [WINK]
  • honeybugg3 said 1 years ago
    I agree. We are all adults here and don't need our mistakes corrected. Reminds of this guy I went to college with. He'd borrow my class notes then give them back when he was done with the spelling corrected...and he was a foriegn exchange student. How gauch[GLARE].

    reguards
    yer I double dog dare someone to correct my blog pal
    bugg
  • transposer said 1 years ago
    Manners are manners... whether blogging or slogging. We can help one another by speaking truthfully with grace. Peeling away the layers of our own pretense and bias is the hard part. I don't mind being corrected or at least prodded a bit if I am "off" in my thinking. In fact I welcome it. I just want such "advice" to be given kindly and in a way that acknowledges that all of us will, at one time or another, be "wrong" and "right" and most often "somewhere in between". Thoughtful post. Thanks.
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    I welcome any kind of input, however, only my mama should correct me.[WINK]
  • ladyspain said 1 years ago
    It's one thing to correct someone's grammar and to add your own comment to their blog. Two totally different animals, if you catch what I mean.[SMILE]
  • natswift said 1 years ago
    [THUMBUP] I agree also! Maybe you could write the first book on Blogging etiquette. BTW, I had to look up how to spell etiquette, I wouldn't want anyone correcting me!!! [LOL]
  • beabea said 1 years ago
    Correcting other's blogs? Oh, very bad manners! [THUMBDOWN] This isn't for a grade, is it?[WINK]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    [WINK][LOL][TONGUE][ROLLEYES][HEART]
  • ladyspain said 1 years ago
    And just fyi, beabea, like moi is a teacher![SMILE][TONGUE]
  • thepirateinthecity said 1 years ago
    I agree Cindy. You should write a book and become the Emily Post of the blogosphere.[THUMBUP]
  • dawgnurse said 1 years ago
    If Cindy is Emily Post, can I be Dr. Ruth????[LOL][LOL][WINK]
  • JOEZsREPUBLICANPAGE said 1 years ago
    [SMILE] GREAT glad you posted this , some have to be sit down and talked to now and then [THUMBUP][THUMBUP][THUMBUP][THUMBUP]
  • jackshoss said 1 years ago
    [SMILE][THUMBUP]I agree, don't know how many times I've gone back and seen I've mispelled something. Glad no one's corrected me, I don't know how I would take it. If someone has an issue it should be between the two,,,Email them[THUMBUP][THUMBUP]
  • onelittleperson said 1 years ago
    Gee I had better check my spelling from now own, but most of the time I just can't control my fingers.[LOL][LOL][LOL]You got a good point there Dixie.[HEART][HEART]Carol
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    Darl'n Carol,
    I for one am no English major, I can hardly spell anymore and my fingers don't work as well as they use too. You will see typos and words misused all in my post~ but my heart is in it, and if you see that, then maybe you can forgive the other[ROLLEYES][HEART]
  • jondude said 1 years ago
    Thanx for this! It's about time someone wrote it, and I should have known our Cindy Lou would do it. SMOOCHES!!!
    (I've been wishing someone would!)[KISS][KISS][KISS]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    ya know, something things are better left unsaid, then some things are just "tacky."[HUH][GLARE][COOL][HEART]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    Darl'n Carol,
    I for one am no English major, I can hardly spell anymore and my fingers don't work as well as they use too. You will see typos and words misused all in my post~ but my heart is in it, and if you see that, then maybe you can forgive the other.[BLUSH][WINK][HEART]
  • ladyspain said 1 years ago
    Good for you! By the way I WAS an English major and I make mistakes. However, teaching Journalism for 5 years I have learned the in journalism, which is exactly what we are doing when we blog, certain freedoms can be taken with the English language. We can start a sentence with But in journalism...not in English. I teach my students that these two styles of writing are exactly opposite. Want confirmation of this? Read the newspaper. Read the sports section. Please![TONGUE][ROLLEYES]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    [KISS]
  • dawgnurse said 1 years ago
    Well Hell's bells....I write like I talk! I'm sure some folks understand my printed words a lot easier than if they heard me speak! And..I never made less than a 4.0 in any college English class. So there.[WINK][ROLLEYES][HEART]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    [KISS][KISS][KISS]
  • catdancer said 1 years ago
    I'm glad you said this, Cindy. You can do it without offending anyone, while some of us would probably start WW III if we tried it! My hat is off to you, OleMiss Manners (and your sidekick, the new Dr. Ruth LOL)[SMILE][SMILE][SMILE]
  • transposer said 1 years ago
    Excuse the diversion but what is that dog doing in the picture?
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    the dog isn't being "boorish." [LOL][LOL][LOL][LOL][LOL][LOL][WINK]
  • bradpalaka said 1 years ago
    Fork and knife.
  • elfie33 said 1 years ago
    Here Here....[SMILE]
  • greeneyedgemini said 1 years ago
    YA!!! What She Said!!!!!!!!!!!!!![THUMBUP][THUMBUP][THUMBUP]
  • MentalHealthRN said 1 years ago
    [KISS]

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