Cutting points on spelling mistakes in mylot?
By alienstar
@alienstar (5142)
India
November 18, 2006 12:06am CST
I heard from somebody that mylot people cut some points if they find a spelling mistake in our discussions....is it true?
I think, if it is true also, it would be better if they neglect small spelling mistakes and deduct some points only if there are major spelling mistakes...what do you say here...anyone here know's about this?
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10 responses
@FlaKNMB (831)
• United States
18 Nov 06
I doubt it's true, especially since they don't have spell check and because there are people from all over the world trying to speak English. If it isn't their native tongue, it wouldn't be fair to punish them.
@alienstar (5142)
• India
18 Nov 06
Yes...i also feel like that...but since i also heard from somebody, thought of putting this in discussion...so that, perhaps if some one know's about this, it will help all of us in long run...sometimes, if there are more sopelling mistakes and all, it might be very difficult to understand that question itself...don't you think?
@kakuemmom (859)
• Canada
18 Nov 06
I think that would be stupid sometimes when u type it is wrong so what give me a break everyone makes mistakes. This is not english class
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@alienstar (5142)
• India
18 Nov 06
Yeah...hello...i didn't say it is there in mylot....i got some news from somebody...so, i thought of putting this question here in discussions to clear out these doubts so that everybody will come to know of this....
@courtlynne77 (4839)
• United States
18 Nov 06
I don't believe that this is true. A lot of the people that post here do not speak english as their first language. It would not be gair to those people to deduct from them as this site might be helping them learn.
@alienstar (5142)
• India
18 Nov 06
If you are right it would better.....but all are giving only their views till now and noone seems to be confident enough in this...let us just wait and see if anyone really comes out with some positive confirmed news on this....
@alienstar (5142)
• India
15 Dec 06
Yes...i agree to waht you said.Mylot will send alerts whenevr they make some changes and i really won't beleive anyone until mylot say's it...
Anyway's, thanks for responding
@euniceeleanor (5967)
• Singapore
15 Dec 06
i dont think so...it's not really stated in the guidelines...i think they will deduct points only when it's a oneliner respond or it's copied from others'...i think they are not that strict on spell check :D
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@alienstar (5142)
• India
15 Dec 06
Yes...it is not stated in guidelines and i feel mylot will come out with an alert if at all they decide something on those lines..isn't it? however it will be nice if they don't cut any points for simple mistakes....according to th new guidelines layed by the, as you said they do deduct points if it is a single line resonse or copied from others...
Anyway's, thanks for responding
@alienstar (5142)
• India
15 Dec 06
Yes...it is not true and i also think mylot will alert if they decide on cutting points here onwards...isn't it?
yes,a s you said, people come from all corners of the world here and making mistakes is common and we have to deal with that and move on...isn't it?
Anyway's, thanks for responding
@gamerz_84 (918)
• India
18 Nov 06
wow really?didnt know that.will be more carefull from now on thanks anyways
@alienstar (5142)
• India
18 Nov 06
No....i was just clearing out my doubts which was created by some body....but now, it seems that in mylot guidelines, they have made some points saying that no one should critisize people for their spelling mistakes as people come from all sides of the world...anyway's. according to me also, simple spelling mistakes and all can be let of.....
@caraj444 (1075)
• Canada
18 Nov 06
cant see it happening since in the guidelines they tell people not to post discussions that criticize peoples spelling mistakes or grammer because we have people using the site who are from everywhere in the world and may not be able to use english that well yet, so rest assured if theyve put this in the guidelines then they are not going to start going around doing it
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@alienstar (5142)
• India
18 Nov 06
Yes...definitely you made some valid points...even i went ythrough their guidelines....but , in some cases when some people make too many gramatical mistakes, it's very difficult to understand their question or discussion......don't you also think so....
@hoosierhunter (18)
• United States
18 Nov 06
I really don't know about them doing that, but I wish they would definitely penalize the people who are not really responding with anything constructive. I had a couple of folks say things that made it clear they were not native English speakers, nor did they know what they were even saying to me. They have a huge feedback. So I'd like to know why the two of them, who said virtually the same thing but both with improper grammatical structure and nonsense responses, survive this site without getting booted while there is talk about docking folks with a misspelled word.
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@alienstar (5142)
• India
18 Nov 06
he...you are making some valid points here...thank you for your comments....first of all, mylot has it's own rules and regulations which everybody has to follow and i also never knew anything of this sort of losing points for spelling mistakes........it is still not clear...i am just clearing the doubts which was created by somebody....by putting up this discussion in mylot...it seems that nobody is sure about this and everybody here are giving their views....as in my case.....simple spelling mistakes are ok...but some people make too many gramatical mistakes and we will really have a hard time in understanding that...anyway's thanks for your comments..let us just wait and see if somebody comes out with real positive answer.....
@inderjeetnogi (514)
• India
29 Dec 06
if this occurs man, i would probably get balance in negative
my spellings are wrong due to touch typing practice
