I will confess, I’m not that great at grammar. Mainly, I’m the sort of person that write/type stuff as I am thinking it and barely look back at what I have wrote. I see it as that it’s online and it’s as informal as it gets. As long as it is readable, it shouldn’t matter if it not 100% perfect.
With that said: majority of the time, I swear that they can just make out roughly what I am trying to saying. I will understand it more if my grammar for a message was so bad that they can’t make out what I’m trying to say. Otherwise, I just felt kinda bullied and mocked for having bad grammar skills.
As ridiculous as it sounds, it makes me so self-conscious and paranoid to post anything and it can even be as simple as making a reply on a post. Internet is a brutal place but so is real-life. The only difference is that I would just block them which I know is little petty but I think that it would be better than me snapping at strangers online. My patience is thin and I just get sick of having people in my life just getting angry at me as well as I feel like a punchline to a joke.
The goal of a communicator is to be understood. If you’re fine with a vague, subjective feeling that you got your point across then you’re good. If you want to ensure precision in your communication then improving your grammar is one skill you can practice.
FWIW, I’m the kind of person that will reread everything I write at least 5 times. I still miss stuff.
This, and the internet is a collaborative place. If someone points out a mistake in my posts, I can go back and edit it to rectify the mistake. I don’t have to take it personally, it can be a group effort for us all to communicate clearly. They are providing me the free service of a copy editor. IMO, that is why redditors sounds like “editor” is because of the edit feature.