It can be. At another site I frequent there was a bit of an altercation with one writer about this time last year. Her spelling was eye-wateringly bad. It was pointed out to her that to be accepted at the site she had needed to show she was capable of a certain level of spelling and grammar usage. When she ignored that it was pointed out that a spell check can help. There was a big fuss about not having a spell check on her computer, to which several online ones were suggested. It got to the point where she just ignored reminders and hints and things got a bit nasty, particularly when people started joining in on both sides.
It's sorted now. She's slowly improving, which is good to see happening.
The thing is, most of the people who don't have the greatest spelling or grammar, or keep up their post lengths quit pretty early on. Those who don't, well, it's a rule at the sites, and if people continually break rules there are consequences, like posts being deleted and if things ever got bad enough - which luckily they haven't yet - it is possible to ban IP addressed from posting on the sites.
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Date: 2006-10-22 12:44 pm (UTC)It's sorted now. She's slowly improving, which is good to see happening.
The thing is, most of the people who don't have the greatest spelling or grammar, or keep up their post lengths quit pretty early on. Those who don't, well, it's a rule at the sites, and if people continually break rules there are consequences, like posts being deleted and if things ever got bad enough - which luckily they haven't yet - it is possible to ban IP addressed from posting on the sites.