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Well yes, I often spell/grammar check, but what I mean is, when I'm writing a paper, I'll print out maybe 20-30 hard copies, make comments and notations in the margins, and by the final draft, the paper contains less than 5% of what the original did. I, and I'm assuming most others here, don't have the time to do that for every post they make.

I do know of one instance at Arizona State University, that was on the local news here a few months ago, as well as I know a few people that are enrolled there currently, that the FBI busted a student and confiscated his PC over some of his internet activity which some major US companies were losing money because of this.

It turned out that the FBI had the wrong guy and all they did was give him an apology accompanied by a warning to not do this ever again. They later found the right person and destroyed his pc on the spot and he is not allowed to touch a computer unsupervised.

I just thought I would share this based on the information provided by friends and the media and the similarity you brought up even though the instances are probably different. But still it is kinda interesting though. Anyways just thought I would share it due to the similarities.

I apologize if I inferred that you or anyone else should revise any post you write before you post it. What I meant was that I, personally, prefer to keep my own posts publishable whenever possible, as do a few others here. I do not expect anyone at all to hold to whatever standards I hold myself to, be they higher or lower than whatever standards someone else uses.

The point of that portion of the post was in direct response to your hasty generalization of what "everyone does." Everyone knows that words like "everyone" or "always" or even "never" will always get you into trouble because they are never true. (That statement is obviously and inherently completely false.) Perhaps "from the posts nearly everyone else makes" or "the way almost everyone does it" would be accurate.