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*Dopers *should be capitalized.
Good response!
Also, it should be either “Oh, Dopers!” or “O Dopers!”.
One possible answer: someone has to be!
Pedants gotta pedant.
Pedants gonna pedant.
I’m not a pedant, that little kid is a liar!!
Pedanting ain’t easy.
Johnny! Stop being pedantic, and come here right now.
-Mama Bravo-
Now that’s pedantry 
(Incidentally, I think the concluding full stop can be dropped there, after ’ “O Dopers!” ', since the exclamation mark is already there, but perhaps I’m being over fussy.)
Since Indian is a registered member of the SDMB, the question should be either, “Oh, Dopers! Why are we so pedantic?” or “Oh, Dopers! Why are *some of you *so pedantic?”
Does anyone else think being pedantic is kinda like having a crazy foot that won’t stop twitching and gets you into all kinds of trouble?
No? Just me? OK then.
Yes. No. No. OK by me.
Every time I get on my bicycle, I pedant all over town.
Serious answer: because I know the culture here prefers being technically right, and it eliminates having to do that balance of whether it’s important enough to mention or not. It’s similar to how I don’t think about how I shouldn’t use curse words.
Precise communication expedites understanding.
And shit.
I disagree. Without the period, the entire sentence can be interpreted as exclamatory, rather than a non-exclamatory sentence containing exclamatory quotations.
(I can do this all day.)
Example: I know virtually nothing about Doctor Who and have never watched any version of the show. Yet, after reading Alessan’s correction in the Where to start with Dr. Who? thread,
I myself have the urge to correct anyone I see spelling it “Dr. Who.”
It’s not always clear where the line between Fighting Ignorance and pedantry lies.