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@RyanM How is it insulting towards someone who writes something like "HELP!!! asap wats the NUMber of atonz in h20 malecul..., Thx guyzzz Urrgant PLZ replY FAST🙏🙏😝🍆" and not vice versa? If anything, it's the reader who should feel offended by reading this, and it does look like something composed by an underage user to me. Besides, what's the point of continuous search to be offended? If someone objectively points out that I'm illiterate in a certain area, I'd be grateful and I will try to improve my skillset instead of calling this person rude.
@RobertColumbia Thank you for letting me know. I'm sorry you think so. Yes, this is not the easiest topic for discussion, but it seems to me that I spoke quite competently and did not specifically attack anyone. Sweeping deliberately illiterate posting under the rug by closing questions like this doesn't seem like a good solution though.
@JourneymanGeek In addition to a person with dyslexia I knew from the childhood, I have a dozen acquaintances/colleagues from chemistry and physics departments, and nearly all of them mentioned they were told during psychological profiling at the university that they show autistic tendencies to various degree. Yet they are great people and successful scientists capable of presenting their results literally (well, in most cases:) ). That's not the type of audience I had in mind while posting this question, sorry for not making this clear.
I see how this may appear as a mechanism for censorship. I'm from a former Soviet country and I'm well-aware what horrible consequences this might have. I guess we stuck at the dilemma of striving for comprehensible quality content without affecting freedom of speech and self-expression. Anyway, thank you for sharing your viewpoint. Maybe it's just me being too demanding and asking too much, expecting too little at the same time.
You are correct, I mainly dwell on Chemistry.SE. I cannot speak for linguistics sites, but from what I see they also primarily use English for discussion, and basic principles of formatting and clarity in written communication doesn't change all that much. Style guides like The Chicago Manual of Style or The elements of style as well as dictionaries do exist and are available to every internet user, after all. In fact, I think it even becomes more complex for STEM as they need to account for more variables (sorry for the tautology).