The frustration of typos

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If Wikipedia didn't exist I'd be in typo hell on the Internet. With all other websites one would need to 1) spend half an hour looking for a contact email, 2) finally write up an email *begging* them to correct their own dumb website! 3) IF it is ever corrected, in all likelihood you won't even get a 'thank you'. This is constantly the case with BBC whose news articles are fraught with typos.

I don't see why websites shouldn't all allow editing - perhaps let the owner check the changes every time, but it's so stupid for a typo to be seen by thousands of people all of whom are unable to do anything.

Typos on websites smack of 'fly by night' to me, the kind of thing you expect to see in an advertisement for car stereo shops. When a large corporate entity falls short it has me wondering how they can let their quality control slip. The worst ones have Unicode so they are barely legible to begin with

I laugh when I see other people's typos, including typos made by professional journalists/copy editors (who tend to write/edit under deadline). When I see my typos, I hit the "Edit" button and fix 'em.

Getting exercised over other people's small mistakes is not healthy, Mootoo.

I have a typo in every one of my posts, that is if I don't read it and edit it afterwards. But sometimes I can't be bothered to read it and so I just hope it's all correct.

The typos I write, though, are ones that make the sentence mean a completely different way to what I wanted it to mean. For example, if I wanted to write a sentence like

''I do not like having AS''

it's frustrating when I've submitted it then the next day I come back and find I have missed out the most important word in the sentence, like the word ''not'', so everybody reads the sentence as

''I do like having AS''

then they wonder why the hell the rest of the post was ranting non-stop about how and why I hate having AS.