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The same error message is shown if a user (without sufficient rep) tries to add one tag or several:

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    time can be better spent
    – Ian Elliott
    Commented Jul 25, 2009 at 22:45
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    Yes it's minor, but the sites will be (very slightly) more humane (especially for new users).
    – sblair
    Commented Jul 25, 2009 at 22:51
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    Hope you like the tumble weed badge.
    – Brad Gilbert
    Commented Jul 26, 2009 at 3:22
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    I'll vote this up when I get more rep. Getting singular/plural right is a signifier of quality.
    – user134242
    Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 11:48
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    Jeff spends time fixing extremely minor errors like this meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10248/… but claims that shoddy English is not important enough to fix? I is very disappointed.
    – Graeme Perrow
    Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 14:53
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    Oh is you than?
    – random
    Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:01
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    I hope one day these bug fixed. What about our non-english speaking user
    – Alex Angas
    Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:49
  • @AlexAngas: by putting on the site things that piss off English teachers, we provide non-native speakers examples to imitate should they desire to blend into American society.
    – WGroleau
    Commented Apr 29, 2018 at 21:40

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http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105

Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S

But not you. I like you. You're nice.

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    GET SOME youtube.com/watch?v=S06nIz4scvI
    – Jarrod Dixon
    Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 4:32
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    More bold! I can still read it!
    – Ladybug Killer
    Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 6:55
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    1 users don't like this approach, while 3 does.
    – Robert Munteanu
    Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 8:02
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    How about punctuation errors? There should be a dot after the last "S"... :-)
    – Wim ten Brink
    Commented Sep 7, 2009 at 8:59
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    These are the days when people hate it that comments cannot be downvoted... ;-)
    – Wim ten Brink
    Commented Sep 7, 2009 at 12:23
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    There's a reason people keep opening these "bugs"...
    – Kip
    Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:19
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    it's because they secretly hate themselves!
    – Jeff Atwood
    Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 22:34
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    cool, a way to meet Jeff in person.
    – Hogan
    Commented Jan 10, 2010 at 21:33
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    There should be a "here comes an 's'" apostrophe before the 's'.
    – Dennis Williamson
    Commented Jun 25, 2010 at 15:02
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    Jeff, why do you resist our attempts to trick you into becoming a better writer? I mean, we fell for your tricks, after all: codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-without-writing.html ;)
    – John
    Commented Apr 29, 2011 at 23:18
  • @JeffAtwood Sorry, I just opened another bug, meta.stackexchange.com/q/125711/155190
    – Benny
    Commented Mar 15, 2012 at 8:05
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    No thanks, I'd prefer you bludgeon me with a 'more different S'. And a top mark on a long V.
    – Richard J. Ross III
    Commented Aug 16, 2012 at 20:11
  • And now, thanks to this answer, I will forewer be hunted by an image of Jeff pursuing is victim to hit him on the forehead with a small silverware "S" like in the "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon" trailer....
    – ꓢPArcheon
    Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 14:27
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    One good thing is that Stack Overflow doesn't ask for the user's address, and if it does, one could simply give it a P.O. box and he would bring the whole post office down...
    – user215114
    Commented Jul 26, 2013 at 19:20
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    A giant S. to kill a small bug? lol
    – super
    Commented May 11, 2014 at 11:52

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