If You Habitually Have Typos In Your Work, Should People Listen To What You Have To Say?
I am by no means perfect. I make mistakes all the time. Spell check and auto-correct save me multiple times per day. But as I've been taking a look around steemit I have noticed that there are a lot of posts that get a decent amount of "steem" yet contain numerous and obvious typos. What does this say about these particular individuals?
Part of me thinks that being able to type every word correctly isn't a prerequisite to having valid and well researched opinions with strong factual support to lend credibility to an argument. But if a person isn't able to at least read through their post and correct the obvious errors then what's the likelihood that they're able to read through and comprehensively understand numerous sources, distinguish fact from fiction, and provide credible evidence to support their arguments?
While having a few typos in a post isn't a game changer, if you're misspelling words once or twice per paragraph then one can't help but wonder what kind of other things are being overlooked in your assessment of a particular subject. It promotes an uncertainty in your ability to professionally present your argument. While this isn't necessarily a professional setting, if you can't spell correctly then you are raising serious questions about your competency, which at the very least will not help validate an argument.
I'm wondering what other people think. How do numerous typos impact your opinion of a post? Feel free to weigh in!
(p.s. I hope I didn't misspell anything!)