I don't believe in perfection, "GUEST TTCM".I don't actually believe "correct spelling" is very important, either.(As anyone who reads what I post might suspect...)

But if you think spelling is so important that you complain about someone elses, you can't go in for multiple mispellings yourself, and then object that it's unreasonable to point them.

Well, you can, obviously, because you did. A bit hard to understand why, but then, there are so many things in this life which are hard to understand. Such as why someone might go to all that additional effort to make their missives impossible to read by using the smallest print size... TTFN, TCCM

And Homeless - I've just looked at that thread about tin whistles that you gave a link to. It seems quite a reasonable mix of helpful advice and a few joky posts and such. Hell, within half an hour, the second post, there was a helpful response. Of nine responses to the original question, I make it five were directly helpful, most of them very helpful. None of the other responses were in any way nasty in tone.

I really doubt that many people would be put off by getting that kind of responses to a question. You're probably right, and there are some. But I think there are more that find it attractive, and come back for more. Like me.