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.
As someone who both reads and writes a LOT of emails/messages as part of their job, I go by two simple rules:
Let the situation determine the level of precision in your writing/grammar.
Always reread what you have typed at least once. Sometimes more depending on the situation.
You take the time to write it so that someone else will read it, and then understand it. If you read what you write and feel it’s concise, it’s good enough. After that if someone wants to be a pedant about it, they can suck shits.
It can be pretty clear (especially on the internet) when someone hasn’t read what they wrote.
To me, that’s the line between an acceptable post and a shit one.
That, and whether or not you completely agree with everything I have ever thought, ever.