Comments on: Should Bloggers Correct their Mistakes?

By: Erik Deckers

Erik Deckers — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:49:08 +0000

If it’s a grammar or spelling error — as if I ever have any of those! — I’ll fix it without calling attention to it.

But if it’s a content error, I think it should be corrected. A blog entry is a historical record of sorts. It’s not a newspaper that is read and then discarded. Errors should not be corrected in a standalone entry. Blogs, just like the rest of the Internet, are permanent, and should be corrected to stand, well, correctly.

How they’re corrected is up to the individual blogger. Personally, I’ll fix the error, and if it’s big enough, point out that I corrected it. If it’s a small thing, like getting a wrong city, I’ll fix it without notification.

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:04:54 +0000

I updated the post with an example.

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:03:49 +0000

Hi Patric,

Great question and I’ll fully admit that I have corrected spelling and grammar mistakes in comments, too! Even though it’s ‘user-generated’, it’s still content on my blog. As such, it has the same value and gets the same attention. I do not do anything that changes the original theme of the message, though!

Doug

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:01:02 +0000

Thanks Barbara! I hope you can put up with (and point out) my grammatical errors.

I only seem to recognize them after the embarrassment of someone like yourself catching them and letting me know. I’m always embarrassed because I both know better and have been educated - it’s just a flaw of mine.

With care, practice and proofing, I have significantly reduced the number of errors, though. It’s one of the reasons I force myself to write daily!

By: Patric Welch

Patric Welch — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:56:59 +0000

I usually correct my mistakes just as you mentioned but this leads to another important question:

Shoood you korrect misteaks in peeple’s kommints?