British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

the addict wrote:

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Sorry you take it that way CD. I only removed the incorrect and misleading information in the posts to avoid future confusion. I didn't touch the rest of your post - nor Jonh's. I did say last night that I would tidy it up.

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That's OK

As above, it is something I feel strongly about and I don't think that Lambda's point as to what is 'legal' or not has any relevance to a forum (apart from in extreme cases, of course) 

And I'm still a little sore (in general) about the poor chap who quit because he got hounded about how his posts should be formatted

To be honest, I don't even really like it when SC, say, corrects someone's spelling or whatever - she's not wrong, and maybe it makes the forum look sloppy if not, but the integrity, and freedom, of people's posts is important, I feel.

But, honestly, all good, no worries, and thank you 

I certainly think that some mistakes ( almost always unintentiomal ) are worth pointing out, such as our starter here, if being pretty relevant wrong / misleading info. And almost always folk do this "nicely" as Andy says. And that is surely reasonable for clarity going forward.

Otherwise I see loads of relatively minor ranking and more particularly general spelling errors that I wouldn't dream of bringing up, unless it has an amusing result. I would probably point out a doubles rather than a singles ranking and vice versa.

I do point out player spelling / hyphen ( as very recenty ) errors in most contexts such as results if I think it may well have been genuinely thought correct as opposed to being a typo. I again think that's reasonable and helpful but if folk think otherwise ( why? ) I could easily stop doing so.

Actually Jon I have no awareness of people here judging others or giving any impression of being superior, just trying in their minds to be helpful. But if any folk have issues about some of the things being brought up, fair dos, I am sure folk will listen.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 18th of August 2026 09:55:09 PM

I remember junior!

I am also not a fan of my posts being altered without me doing it (if I see fit to, I.e wrong title) and I have fallen out with SC before about it before. But we have typos and awkward phrases in everyday life, why not on the board too? None of us are perfect.

But I am not trying to gang up on the addict or anyone else.

indiana wrote:

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I certainly think that some mistakes ( almost always unintentiomal ) are worth pointing out, such as our starter here, if being pretty relevant wrong / misleading info. And almost always folk do this "nicely" as Andy says. And that is surely reasonable for clarity going forward.

Otherwise I see loads of relatively minor ranking and more particularly general spelling errors that I wouldn't dream of bringing up, unless it has an amusing result. I would probably point out a doubles rather than a singles ranking and vice versa.

I do point out player spelling / hyphen ( as very recenty ) errors in most contexts such as results if I think it may well have been genuinely thought correct as opposed to being a typo. I again think that's reasonable and helpful but if folk think otherwise ( why? ) I could easily stop doing so.

Actually Jon I have no awareness of people here judging others or giving any impression of being superior, just trying in their minds to be helpful. But if any folk have issues about some of the things being brought up, fair dos, I am sure folk will listen.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 18th of August 2026 09:55:09 PM

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 I agree - but I think there's a big difference between someone pointing it out and someone changing it for you

i.e. we all want the titles (in particular) to be right and we all appreciate the people who spend a lot of their time creating the threads (the addict and SC come to mind) so if there's an error in the title, it's perfectly fine and normal to post: "SC/the addcit/whoever, I think this should be a W15 not a W35' or whatever 

But that's not the same as someone coming in and changing it - that wrankles people, as Blue Belle says  

Lambda_ wrote:

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By my reckoning

1 Hibino JPN> in for Juvan (withdrawal not confirmed)
2 Falei > in for Vidmanova moved to md
3 Hruncakova SVK > in for Podoroska moved to md
4 Hercog SLO > in for Preston WC
5 Rinaldo Persson SWE > in for Jeanjean WC
6 Sebov CAN > in for Lee WC
7 1 Dudeney GBR

 

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 That's a helpful list and hopefully there will be one more withdrawal for Alicia to sneak in.  It is a bit strange that there is no full official qualifying entry list that I can see on the US Open website and I haven't seen anything official anywhere. I can't recall this happening in recent years at any of the majors.

Anyway just one more to withdraw - any non-Brit withdrawal will be much appreciated.

-- Edited by Andy Parker on Wednesday 19th of August 2026 11:32:28 AM

Teichmann has announced she's withdrawing so I think that should be enough for Alicia to play

indiana wrote:

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I certainly think that some mistakes ( almost always unintentiomal ) are worth pointing out, such as our starter here, if being pretty relevant wrong / misleading info. And almost always folk do this "nicely" as Andy says. And that is surely reasonable for clarity going forward.

Otherwise I see loads of relatively minor ranking and more particularly general spelling errors that I wouldn't dream of bringing up, unless it has an amusing result. I would probably point out a doubles rather than a singles ranking and vice versa.

I do point out player spelling / hyphen ( as very recenty ) errors in most contexts such as results if I think it may well have been genuinely thought correct as opposed to being a typo. I again think that's reasonable and helpful but if folk think otherwise ( why? ) I could easily stop doing so.

Actually Jon I have no awareness of people here judging others or giving any impression of being superior, just trying in their minds to be helpful. But if any folk have issues about some of the things being brought up, fair dos, I am sure folk will listen.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 18th of August 2026 09:55:09 PM

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I think it depends on the psychology of the person involved. When I was copying results across I used to double check my post but still made mistakes. I didn't mind them being pointed out as I preferred my posts to be correct. I often thanked people for pointing out the errors. I notice errors in other people's posts but only occasionally point them out as I don't know how they would react.