So I decided to get community’s POV on this topic. A lot of people say Grammar is important but no one really knows where line is crossed. I’ve come up with 3 types of grammar.
This grammar is correct. It is easy to read and has little to no mistakes. It is achievable for a native speaker or a foreign user getting proofreader.
I voted incorrect but readable, but I guess I can tolerate it if it’s full of mistakes, I just probably wouldn’t enjoy it as much because I’d be distracted by all the errors
Same for me, usually spelling can be fixed with typing the word to Google and punctuation has some basic rules. It doesn’t hurt to look up but it is okay if the author doesn’t want to.
Oh god, one of my favorite topics to talk about. For me, grammar is SUPER important because it means to me that you are professional and you are the person that cares when it comes to that. If it is like 1-3 errors, I am fine. But, anything that is really excessive or becomes repetitive, I just give up on it. Yes, I’m a picky reader. I’m sorry.
Although I do prefer it, I don’t mind reading stories that lack perfect grammar - what truly matters (to me) is the plot. The only time I’ll flat out stop reading something is when periods or question marks or anything that completes a sentence aren’t used. Drives me insane
To me grammar is pretty important, but I don’t mind a few errors every now and then. I selected “correct grammar” and “incorrect but readable” but if nearly every line was incorrect but readable, I’d probably be exiting that story pretty quickly.
I agree with you whole-heartedly.
These days grammar is dying, and the general media and social media are the main cause of this (especially with journalism). There is a very high percentage of native English speakers who don’t even know how to use grammar correctly. It pains me to see this, and that’s why I think grammar is important.
It is so important that I actually started a thread a few days ago, “Caliope-checker”, to help authors with proofreading if they want/need it.
I do this, sometimes I check full sentences in quotation marks in Google Yet I’m sure I still make plenty of mistakes and I often notice them only after publishing even though I preview every episode multiple times. I’m just that blind…
I voted incorrect but readable (and I hope my stories fall into this category), grammar is important to me but yeah, it is not easy for non-native speakers. To be honest I usually stop reading stories full of grammar mistakes because it distracts me pretty much plus I noticed some correlation between bad grammar and bad writing: I have the feeling that authors who don’t care about grammar, don’t really write enjoyable stories either. At least that’s my experience.
I cannot stand stories with incorrect grammar. An occasional mistake is fine, but if I read the first chapter and there are spelling and grammar mistakes littered in it, I will not read further. It completely baffles me how stories with poor grammar and spelling become popular; it makes me highly annoyed and also puts me off writing, because why the hell should I bother making my story good if another’s story with errors everywhere is held up on a pedestal? Even Episode official writers have this problem, and it’s exhausting.
I’m pretty much used to seeing incorrect grammar in words , so it doesn’t really bother me. What bothers me is when I have to read a line several times to get what it means !!! It’s usually the tenses that I get mad about or where they put the words that makes no sense at all!!!
For me, grammar is SUPER important because it means to me that you are professional and you are the person that cares when it comes to that. If it is like 1-3 errors, I am fine. But, anything that is really excessive or becomes repetitive, I just give up on it. Yes, I’m a picky reader. I’m sorry.
But I respect your opinion. 
Yet I’m sure I still make plenty of mistakes and I often notice them only after publishing even though I preview every episode multiple times. I’m just that blind…