WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING MY DEAR FRIEND GALEN, YOU OUGHT TO BE KEEPING CLOSE TRACK OF THE AMOUNT OF WORDS THAT YOU USE IN EACH AND EVERY COMMENT THAT YOU MAKE. YOU CAN DO THIS VIA THE WORD COUNT MECHANISM SHOWN AT THE TOP RIGHT OF EACH COMMENT BOX. AFTER ALL, THIS IS HUBSKI -THE THOUGHTFUL WEB THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. SO PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF YOURSELF AND THOSE AROUND YOU, ATTEMPT TO BE THOUGHTFUL TWENTY FOUR SEVEN.
FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWELDGE! I HAVE FIXED THAT FOR YOU
It's pretty amazing how much this comment annoyed the shit out of me today. It's not the correction of the grammar, but the use of the word "dear." Pretty patronizing, I'm not a fan. Good luck with the cough though.
It's considered most correct to use 'amount' for non-countable nouns, like 'soup'. Just as 'how much' is used rather than 'how many'. You are given a certain amount of soup and use a certain number of words. Likewise: How much soup did you eat? How many words did you write?
Muted! I shall wear it as a badge of honor. Quatrarius
Yeah, hopefully you got that the original comment from me was to point out how arbitrary word counts are. A single word reply can have just as much impact as a longer one. I don't know about you, but I have not once looked at that word count
I don't even realize it's there. No need to toggle it off, it's just non-existant in my use of the site.