I've poured pored over all the Friar duties and responsibilities links (perhaps too many at once is my problem) and I find a conflict.

On one hand it says we don't correct spelling; on the other hand it says the titles are the key to long term usability of the site.

So what happens when a keyword for search is misspelled in the title?

I recently submitted what I think was my first NTC and I may have committed a social faux pas, in that I requested a spelling correction on node title.

Just looking to see if I should refrain from that particular activity in the future, given my confusion after reading conflicting guidance in the veritable sea of PerlMonks documentation. :-)

Update: Thanks to everyone who sent me private chat messages with s/poured/pored/. I was starting to think it was some kind of old PerlMonks insider joke or something, but after getting multiple identical messages, it finally dawned on me that I might have a typo in my post.

Context is everything. :-)

In reply to Guidance Requested: Spelling in Titles? by marinersk

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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