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abhinavg·

I think you mean "yet another GUI for Git."

"GUI Interface" expands to "Graphical User Interface Interface."

Sorry, I could not help myself.

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An interesting message board feature would be the ability to (self) tag posts plus a filtering mechanism to allow users to avoid grammer or spelling nitpicks. Or they could be styled differently. Instead a full reply, it'd be an asterisk that you'd hover over to read if you really wanted to.

#nitpick

> grammer or spelling nitpicks

grammar

Slamdunk.

Indeed. In this context I must post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM

also another filter for meta posts would be nice... oh wait.

On most boards this filter is also known by name 'moderators'.

Why is this downvoted? He politely corrected parent's word usage and that should be encouraged, no?

There's a fine line between correction and pedantry.

Indeed, and we don't need an extra 30+ posts in each thread that don't add to the discussion but simply point spelling/grammar errors.

It's useless noise - the parent's intention was clear

Just because a statement's meaning is clear doesn't make it easy to read. Even seemingly minor errors (such as mixing up "it's" with "its") disrupts the flow of reading.

That should be 'disrupt', not 'disrupts'. - PedantBear

Agreed.

Also, all this discussion about grammar is useless noise which should've been taken privately in order not to interrupt the flow of ideas that might improve the software.

So, please, in the future redirect grammar nitpicking efforts to a more appropriate place like StackExchange's English Language and Usage [1].

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com

try harder

Also known as RAS Syndrome

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