# Does this board do weird auto-corrects? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 27, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537 "2013-02-27T18:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/1 "2013-02-27T18:53:31Z")
Not really appropriate in About This Board, IMHO… Does anyone else experience strange word-changes when they post? I write pretty much all day, mostly on my central tasks but occasionally over here in the browser, and I am not prone to mistyping words. I catch 99% of typoes and misspellings because it’s what I do, and I don’t have any habits of typing wrong words. But in nearly every post here, and in many I see, there are ‘wrong words’ like \*then \*for _the_, \*one \*for _on_, \*every \*for \*ever \*and even more outlandish examples. I am pretty sure I am not mistyping and missing the mistake - I don’t see it in any of the open long documents I’m working on - but there they are in any 2 out of 3-4 posts I make. And, as I said, I see this kind of error in others’s posts as well. Does anyone else experience this? (Carefully proofs post and reaches for the submit button…) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/2 "2013-02-27T18:59:21Z")
No, that never happens to me. But when I see an autocorrect it makes me let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff in it. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/3 "2013-02-27T19:05:05Z")
No, the board doesn’t do any kind of auto-correcting, but whatever browser you’re using might be. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/4 "2013-02-27T19:26:21Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > No, the board doesn’t do any kind of auto-correcting, but whatever browser you’re using might be. Agreed, it’s most likely your browser. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/5 "2013-02-27T20:01:12Z")
Yes, I think on the Mac there’s even a system-wide autocorrect available to programs. I’ve had things corrected in my text editor, for example. But it’s probably the browser. (Is there a way to manage or purge the local auto-correct lists? I don’t want it learning my mistakes…) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/6 "2013-02-27T20:09:38Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/7 "2013-02-27T20:12:49Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > Not really appropriate in About This Board, IMHO… Not sure why you think it’s not an ATMB question; I’m moving it thither (from MPSIMS). ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/8 "2013-02-27T20:18:40Z")
I’ve run into something similar to the OP on multiple machines, platforms and browsers–even a fresh install, so I doubt it’s any malignant software. I often type out intelligent, insightful and humorous posts only to have them converted to insipid bits of lukewarm gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/9 "2013-02-27T22:29:10Z")
I donut thing theaters auto collect on these bored. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-board-do-weird-auto-corrects/651537/10 "2013-02-28T00:45:25Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I often type out intelligent, insightful and humorous posts only to have them converted to insipid bits of lukewarm gibberish. Keep trying! Sooner or later, one of the good ones will make it! > [@Ludovic](#): > > … let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff in it. Sock Reported!