It's ok CMB Dev. It's not your fault. People don't like being wrong.

This bot has severely overstayed its welcome. I don't often see it anymore only because it has been banned in so many places that I normally visit, but every time I do see it I roll my eyes.

I will not argue that some people find it helpful. However the amount of comment spam it creates is excessive, and I'm not just talking about the other bots that auto reply to it. It's a solid 2 paragraph spiel every time someone minorly misspells something.

But was that minor misspelling worth adding a 2 paragraph block for every single person who goes by? I have excellent spelling abilities and yet am never bothered by people using the language a little differently. I still understand what people mean when they write.

Furthermore, as u/BooCMB states, most of the hints are so useless as to be condescending. They often devolve into "remember how the word is spelled" which is so pointless.

If you really want to change the legacy of hate that this bot has managed to accrue, you need to do two things in my mind:

1. Reduce comment spam

2. increase the utility of its hints

One way to reduce comment spam is moving to DMs. I think that would alleviate a lot of the annoyance that people feel. After all, this bot causes people (including causal readers) to be taken on a pedantic spelling lesson, whether they want to or not.

If you are going to keep its posts public, then I would say you need to make the comment less abrasive. Yes, it's written very politely. However after reading the same message 20 times the obsequiousness becomes incredibly grating. It feels nothing other than fake.

With regard to the utility of the hints: there are some good ones, and the rest are worse than useless. It's better not to give a hint, in my mind, than to give one that wastes space and doesn't help anyone. To this end, I would say that if the bot is going to still comment publicly, do not reply to a misspelling if you do not have a great hint.

If a hint is really good, it can actually benefit a common reader who already knows how to spell the word. Which would decrease how much this counts as comment spam.

In conclusion: should the bot die? In its current form, god yes. With some strong changes? It could be given new life.

But if you're going to abandon it again, by god please don't leave it on. You have caused serious amounts of frustration and annoyance to the Reddit community as a whole.

Turn it off. Prescriptivism and pedantry help no one.

How is it tied right now? Kill this bot, be done with this farce. People who care about their spelling have spell check.

No, never.

God please kill it

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Imagine getting mad over a paragraph or two when there’s no real problem with it. It’s not like the internet is running out of space. How about the human race comes together to fight for climate change legislation, gun control, and solar power, instead of a bot on the internet?

Oh and screw booCMB. There’s a reason boobooCMB (or whatever it’s called) exists too.

Imagine crying over a bot because it corrected your spelling online. Just ignore it ya wankers.

It's spamming subreddits so much that it has been banned in a majority of them. Let it die.

People can talk about clutter and the like, but we could say the same for many of the actual Reddit users.

So with that note, I would say, make sure the hints are actually hints, and give people the ability to "remember how to ignore something." It's amazing how much people forget they can ignore/hide a thing, and if you let this bot live, then you should make it easy for people to know they can block it.

Want to never see this bot again? Click here

Then send a PM to the user (with some instructions) that explain how to ignore it. You won't even need RES installed to do so. I know a lot of people think it is stupid and hate it, but honestly, if there are at least a handful of people that end up finding it useful, then keep it around.

I would add, having a function that scans the modlist and will take a !remove would be great for mods also. Sometimes, they are on mobile, and doing mod work on mobile is a pain. My ability to see it in my sub, click on a remove or type !remove (or similar) would make life easier on the mods.

Keep this bot and make him more rude!

"AKSHULY, THIS IS HOW YOU SPELL OCCASIONALLY."

It's irritating as fuck.

I don't understand the hate. The terrible hints have a comedic, sarcastic tone that I quite enjoy.

I noticed in a thread that it had replied to several times, each being ~3 minutes old, that all its comments were at -19. Someone was auto-downvoting the bot. Ignore the karma, and ignore the haters - pricks getting defensive because their ego can't take being corrected.

Kill this, please. No one needs a bot to pop in with "ACTUALLY, it's spelled 'rehearsal'."

Firefox and Chrome both have spell-checking features. Android and iOS have autocomplete. If someone can't be bothered to use these, it's unlikely that the bot is going to change their minds.

There is no good way to update it. And telling it to use PMs is even worse. Blocking the hot from responding to your own posts doesn't change the fact that it still litters the subs that it posts in. Some may ask "what harm is there from one extra post?" But if they believe that, they would also welcome advertisement spam or political bots too.

Kill the bot. You can't fix it.

Hey, CommonMisspellingBot, just a quick heads-up:

mispelling is actually spelled misspelling. You can remember it by two s's.

Have a nice day!

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Whatever you do, change the name so that the "Boo" bot and the "BooBoo" bots stop spamming. It's a fucking train wreck.

Thanks for turning it off.

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