As you may or may not know, Rorchash Inkblot(s) are a psychological testing tool developed in 1921 to help evaluate a person's personality, characteristics and emotional functioning. They’re actually just a series of random ‘inkblots’ on paper which people are shown and then asked, “What do you see?”
I submit to you that internet threads are today’s equivalent of a Rorschack Inkblot Test, in that people “see” whatever they want to see and respond accordingly. In this way, a thread entitled My Cat Snowball can end up several pages later being a rant about organic vs inorganic gardening.
As a casual observer of this phenomenon, I caution you to be careful out there in Cyber Space and don’t take any rant you read too seriously.
I'll close with something Canadian Steven Smith, aka Red Green, was fond of saying, “Remember I'm pullin' for ya — we're all in this together.”
He also frequently said, “Keep your stick on the ice” which I enjoyed.
I see this is a slight on semi-organic gardening. I'm offended and I kinda knew something was going to offend me today.
Prepare to be canceled.
I know I go on about it but I'm dyslexic so every re-read is an adventure for me. Just like you say, Lance, the errors only seem to be visible once I hit post. My favorite is when I make a social media post across multiple platforms; Facebook, seems fine. LinkedIn, seems fine. Twitter, oops! Glaring mistake. Guess what? No edit button on that one!
Hip hip hooray for Thread Drift...
I'm dyslexic too. Inside your own head, you're not very critical about what you've written and you tend to slide over your mistakes in a non-verbal mode. To combat this, I find putting my scripts on an audible SPEECH function very helpful. When your words break the sound barrier, mistakes become more detectable (glaring).
Even with self and third party proofreading AND use of the speech function, it's still a continuing struggle for me. I'm not surprised to hear others have a similar issue. So, “Remember I'm pullin' for ya — we're all in this together.”
Dyslexics of the world - UNTIE!