Why is it that most of the people on this site are illiterate?
456035
No kidding.  I have passed on some of the questions because they were written so badly I couldn't figure them out!  I'm no English major, but I sure look like one next to some of these people.
487975
Because people don't take the time to read over their questions and answers. they don't even edit either. But it is good that you care.  :-)
54033
The place is littered with people who are basically functionally illiterate, and I think it's disheartening to see how much of the public is simply too stupid or ignorant to form a sentence.  It's bad enough that some of them couldn't spell a word even at gunpoint, but a good bunch of them cannot even ask a simple question in a way that makes sense.  \n\nNow, a lot of them are young and "chat lazy".  They think that the creative spelling, lack of punctuation and capitalization, and chatspeak shorthand they use in their IM sessions is appropriate everywhere on the internet.  Bzzzt! Wrong answer!
169152
Some get too damn lazy to spell correctly and/or to type in complete words. \nSome are just that dumb and don't want to learn.\nSome of these people's primary language is not english... like me, yet, I know how to spell and I know the differences between your, you're, they're, their, its, it's, etc. AND, it's a pet peeve to see how many people missuse (sp?) those.\n\nHey, at least I know I might have misspelled that and I care enough to question myself :oP
604812
because the people that play it, can't read so well.
961738
Keep in mind, there are a lot of young kids and teenagers on here that mostly have the spelling errors and the weird slang. That's probably what you are seeing on here lately. You are right, though, it's hard to answer a question when somebody messes up most of their spelling or they use nothing but slang. It's nothing against anybody, and I like giving advice, but if people are serious about getting answers to  their questions, they would at least respect other fellow answerer's by using the "Check Spelling" option.
537668
I reckon a large proportion of people on here could do with that too! The use of grammar, spelling and sentence construction is terrible! Don't they educate people anymore?
329062
You are not alone in noticing this.  There have been several comments about it.  I even wrote one.  I don't understand what the deal is.  Are they on something?  Are they really young?  Are they from another country?  Or are they just illiterate?  Who knows, but it's really annoying.
1150697
Some people lack the ability to ask intelligent questions.  Furthermore, they don't know how or are too lazy to provide intelligent answers, to many of the tough questions posted here.  Notice all the one word answers... they only want the 2 points.
498236
Yes, and considering the way 90% of the people on here have no idea how to spell basic words, let alone how to use it. I only wish there was a grammar check also.
946116
You appear to be completely illiterate.
1026990
Sorry Sadie that there are so many ignorant people on this site
310090
Well what you say is partly true. There are some people here who make useless questions or stupid questions like what's 1+1 or something stupid like that. i think most people here are just bored and just want to do random ****.
11394
My view is that the internet is opening more avenues of communication to teenagers and people with poor education, and both groups (with some exceptions) tend to spell poorly. \n\nIt's not that anyone's grammar is getting worse, but rather that we're being exposed more and more to the already existing bad grammar.
59411
Very interesting question, my dear. There is a vast multitude of people who have little or no regard for the language arts including English as it is written and meant to be read. Nor do they wish to improve!
824424
This site is full of idiots who can barely read, much less compose a decent question.  Don't feel bad, just remember you are smarter than them.
866974
Thing is that there a lot of people here that can give the proper answers, however there are many out there that take a wild guess, and in many cases just give absurd non-sense making comments.\nAlso, this is not a forum for making comments, as you know it's for people to come in ask questions and other people to attemp to give information.