Could you pass the MY to me?

@Spike Number 1 Assistant  
It’s not really negative at all. What use is there in correcting a grammar/spelling mistake without explaining the why of it? What good does it do to tell someone “They’re*” and not explain the difference between they’re, their, and there? It is useless criticism. It’s like telling someone to fix the broken sink and not giving them the tools to do so. The same goes for criticism that is empty for art, literature, and music. Nothing is more useless than saying simply: “I like it” or “I hate it”. Well, why? It tell the creator nothing, just like a spelling/grammar fix with an asterisk tells the commenter nothing.
 
It also, as I said before, completely ignores the subject of the comment, thereby degrading what that person wanted to say or express because the corrector found the grammar/spelling mistake more important than what they had to say.
 
Tell me if I’m wrong, but also be honest with yourself. Do you see criticism as a personal attack?

@Background Pony #7607
 
Well, that’s your view then. If you wish to be a negative person like that, pretty sure in the future no one will want to help you.

@Spike Number 1 Assistant  
I could look at it that way, but I also know I would be lying to myself. People don’t make those comments because they “want to help”, they do it because it irks them, and bad spelling/grammar is a mark of sub-intelligence (Obviously it’s really not, at least to more reasonable people), but that is how most think when they write those comments. It doesn’t really add to the conversation to point out spelling and grammar as their ONLY reason to comment.

Apparently, especially when it comes to the word “not.”

@Background Pony #7607
 
or, you could look at it as someone trying to help someone else better themselves, and improve themselves, rather than it being immediately taken as mean or nasty, just because the internet says it’s so.

I find it annoying, TBH. Yes, it would be ideal that spelling and grammar be perfect, but is it really necessary to the point of the comment? No, no it is not. It especially irks me on YouTube comments when someone replies and the ONLY thing they say is a grammar or spelling correction. Like, really? Why even bother to comment if that’s all you’re going to say? Can you really not just move on with your day?? Pathetic…