Is it wrong to suggest a college applicant in Yahoo to use correct grammar?

Yes you should correct a person that using improper grammar when asking about a college question. Maybe they will start using spell check or pay attention to their spelling on the application, now that you pointed it out.

You can shut off the ability of others to contact you via email. Yahoo gives you that option. I suggest you shut off the email in yahoo answers so no one can contact you with rude comments.

A rude email would have been uncalled for in that case. *BUT*....

Maybe it was about something else, and you're not telling us. It's interesting when people complain about "rudeness" from other users on YA, but they lie about what really happened. Are you lying?

I think you are.

In pointing out your high and mighty attitude toward someone's grammar, this person was probably just pointing out your attitude problem.

Are you sure you didn't make fun of someone's question? Maybe give a flip answer and get sarcastic and rude? Something tells me they were angry at your rudeness, not your grammar corrections. Perhaps the person got angry at a rude answer to their question, and now the facts are being altered here. Remember, honesty is a virtue!

You called this person a prissy little b..... (which is a somewhat "filthy" expression, btw), but they still affected you enough to make you waste five points on this question.

You also probably spent extra time searching through your own Q&A.

Sad...lol If it upset you that much, closing your email might be a good idea, for your delicate, sensitive constitution.

Maybe you just aren't strong enough to face the fact that you were inconsiderate. As another answerer just said, "the truth hurts".

My personal opinion is that you should not allow IMs or email. I feel this is a question & answer forum. They ask, I answer, and frankly I don't give a damn about how they feel about my answer; nor do I wish to discuss with them my answer, or their question. If they don't like their answers they can re-post, or go sit on a fence post and spin for all I care.

And yes, it IS appropriate to this site to correct grammar and spelling and many times the question is unintelligible the was it was written. And certainly a college applicant ought to be told that they need English 101 as they appear ignorant.

I suggest keeping chit-chat to the personal chat rooms, and disable your emails and IMs. They can leave a message in "additional details" so if they are rude there, they can be reported.

No, but you know there are plenty of them on here....I mean, read the questions.....

Just overlook it....no sense in getting into an "abuse war" over it....I used to get them, then just stopped letting people e-mail me....who cares...not a chat room, anyway....

Nothing you say or do is going to change someone so spoiled and badly raised by a famly....and they are going to be that way forever.... Just be thankful that you don't have to be them and have people hate you the way they are hated....

And, remember that there is that ever useful little BLOCK button.....

it depends what their question was. if they were asking if their grammar was good or something in regards to applying to college then i think you are quite justified. if not then i think you may have been offering your opinion where it was not asked for.

either way there is no excuse for such rude behaviour, i would not even bother replying to such rubbish. i assume the reason this person sent the email was because the truth hurts. how pathetic.

i think your best consolation is the fact that she will never get into (or at least she will never last in ) college with an attitude like that toward learning. you were just trying to be helpful and dont ever stop doing that.

she will end up in a dead end job with her anger and lack of brains

Unsolicited advice is not necessary. You may be good in english grammar, but in other aspects of life you may be not. It is because nobody is perfect yet. If you know much in english grammar then good, but be silent until someone need your help.