If you are quoting from a blog or forum post (as I do frequently) do you, or should you, correct spelling and grammar errors?
If the “error” was such that it significantly altered the context of the excerpt, then maybe I would. (And hope it wasn’t noticed?)
Would you contact the person who made the comments and get their ok to edit their words? Interesting question.
Take a passage signed by zipthwung, an astute online commenter: “pornography if for the ruling classes and their violent vulgar all consuming appetites. Or their slaves.” Interesting. But so as not to distract you with the typos, should I have repunctuated it, adding commas and plunking a hyphen into “all-consuming”? Should I have turned that “if” to “is”?
