Yes, please. Feel free to correct errors in titles when you reply. Especially adjust your title to make it more on-topic to your specific reply.

Just please leave the context apparent in the title. So don't mess with the "Re^2:" prefix at all and leave enough of the previous title somewhere in your new title such that a human is likely to notice the connection. There are too many places where the title is displayed out of context of the thread, so it is important to include some context in the title of a reply.

We shouldn't be afraid to point out even simple mistakes, especially when the correction isn't emphasized and it is accompanied by something genuinely useful (which one would hope the reply contains). Replying to say just "You misspelled 'scalar'" is completely inappropriate and quite a waste, IMO. I wouldn't even call out the mistake with "You misspelled 'scalar'" as part of a useful reply. I do find that just rude enough that I would avoid it. I think just demonstrating the correct spelling is usually sufficient (but feel free to point out a mistake in a private /msg).

But we shouldn't put on a charade, pretending that we didn't notice that some word was mispelt. I think more people would be offended by that than by one quietly restating things in a way that one finds more correct or precise.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Correcting errors in titles when I reply by tye
in thread Fixing typos in replies by almut

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