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Is the accepted convention that in online communication literal grammar corrections should start with an asterisk or at least be surrounded by quotes.

I know how silly this is, but now you see what happens when you get too focused in grammatical mistakes.

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See Muphry's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law

Illusion/allusion isn't a grammatical mistake. They're too words that mean different things, but which are very similar syntactically (you can swap between them in a sentence and get two valid sentences which mean entirely different things).

This can be a pernicious source of errors of communication. It is good to point it out.

"Two" words.

Sorry.

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