History Main / CorrectionBait

[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Decribe]] [[DescribeTopicHere Correction Bait here.]]

A form of SchmuckBait, and one of the common ways of invoking YouJustToldMe. Sub Tropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, Administrivia/EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, FandomEnragingMisconception. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, DontBeRidiculous, BlunderCorrectingImpulse, ReversePsychology, and FlameBait. Contrast BystanderSyndrome. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

Correction Bait, a sister to FlameBait and SnarkBait, lures you by the urge of correcting something wrong from your inner mind, and draws attention from the people by this progress.

A form of SchmuckBait, and one of the common ways of invoking YouJustToldMe. Sub Tropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, Administrivia/EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, FandomEnragingMisconception. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, DontBeRidiculous, BlunderCorrectingImpulse, ReversePsychology, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast BystanderSyndrome. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

-->-- '''Gene Spafford''' [[note]] Actually, it was Ward Cunningham who said the above quote, and it isn't even the origin -- [[SelfDemonstratingArticle oh, goddammit!]][[/note]]

-->-- '''Gene Spafford'''

A form of SchmuckBait. Sub Tropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, Administrivia/EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, FandomEnragingMisconception. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, DontBeRidiculous, BlunderCorrectingImpulse, ReversePsychology, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast BystanderSyndrome. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

** Captain Holt once deliberately submitted a proposal to his superiors with extremely minor grammatical errors (improper colon/semicolon use, split infinitives, etc) so that his superior (and sworn nemesis) Madeline Wuntch would see them and reject the proposal. The reasoning being rejecting a proposal for such petty reasons would allow him to go over her head and have a better chance of getting what he wants.

* In one episode of ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'', slowbeef makes a joke about the laziness of Pokemon's animators, saying "They players won't care; they spent their 100 yen!" Later, when Proteus jokes that Kabuto is that "Japanese theater with the face paint 'n shit," he then immediately follows up by preemptively cursing out the people rushing to comment that he's talking about ''kabuki''. Slowbeef then says that it's probably the same person who's about to post "you know slowbeef, 100 yen is not a lot of money." "100 yen is not a lot of money" immediately became the "Well, actually..." of the Retsupurae fandom.

A form of SchmuckBait. Sub Tropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, Administrivia/EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, FandomEnragingMisconception. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, DontBeRidiculous, BlunderCorrectingImpulse, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast BystanderSyndrome. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

You don't know why it's so wrong. Maybe they did not do the research, and suffered from CriticalResearchFailure. Maybe they knew it all along, but then decided to ignore it. Maybe [[StylisticSuck it's done deliberately]]. Maybe they just want to lure you out. But whatever, you're annoyed by the wrongness, and now ''you can't stop your urge to correct it''!

* ComicStrip/BeetleBailey featured the same gag, with a misspelled "Dougnuts." After Beetle and Sarge leave with a bag of doughnuts/donuts (having stopped to report the error), the proprietor comments that the missing h brings in ever more business.

* In one episode of the ''Series/TheOffice'', Dwight goes on a tear about "time theft", and insists that he never talks about anything non-work-related in the office. Jim proceeds to needle him by giving a ludicrously incorrect description of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', causing Dwight to visibly struggle to keep from correcting him.

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** In ''The Sign of the Four'', Holmes gets the description of a boat he's looking for from the captain's wife not by asking, but by pretending that he knows the boat but can't remember it well and getting all the details wrong.\\

-->''"Holmes:''' She’s not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam?\\

-->'''Holmes:''' She’s not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam?\\

'''Holmes:''' She’s not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam?\\

“She’s not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam?”\\
"No, indeed. She’s as trim a little thing as any on the river. She’s been fresh painted, black with two red streaks.”

* Literature/SherlockHolmes has used this to good effect. In ''The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle'', he's tracking the origins of a Christmas goose which was found to be carrying a stolen gem. He insists to a dealer that the goose was farm-raised -- which he knows almost certainly isn't true -- and under the guise of a bet gets the man to prove him "wrong" by showing him the ledgers telling exactly where in the city the goose came from. Holmes later says he could have offered the man a hundred times the bet and not been able to simply buy the information.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'', this is how [[EvilCounterpart Black Adam]] was defeated in his first appearance: [[LovableRogue Uncle Dudley]] kept purposefully misspeaking [[TheChooserOfTheOne Shazam]]'s name, until an exasperated Black Adam corrected him -- [[ByThePowerOfGreyskull and thus turned back into his powerless mortal form]], which (given that he had been in his empowered form for 5,000+ years) quickly succumbed to RapidAging.

A form of SchmuckBait. Sub Tropes include GrammarNazi, StylisticSuck, Administrivia/EditWar, YouMakeMeSic, FandomEnragingMisconception. See also SoBadItsGood, TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness, AccentuateTheNegative. DistractingDisambiguation, XylophoneGag. Compare SuperOCD, ThePerfectionist, BlunderCorrectingImpulse, FlameBait and SnarkBait. Contrast BystanderSyndrome. May result in {{Hypocrite}}, LetsSeeYouDoBetter, NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer, AluminumChristmasTrees.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'':

* ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'':