Something That Bothers Me - Mispelled Names

Rainbowdash - Apple Jack - Flutter Shy - Applebloom - Sweetiebell

I have seen all of these spellings used in fics, just within the last few days. Not just troll fics, or badly written ones either, but decent stories, ones that the writers seem to have put genuine effort into.

So why are the character names misspelled? Some of the side characters having variations on the name I can understand. Bonbon, Bon-Bon, and Bon Bon, are basically all alright to me, for example.

I really think that if you can't correctly spell the name of a character that is listed in the show's credits, than you have no business writing a story about that character.

Let me put it this way. I am a huge Star Wars fan, and have been know to write the occasional Star Wars fan fiction. I am by no means a great writer, and my top viewed Star Wars story has less than 300 views, yet I still manage to care enough to spell the character's names correctly. If I showed up with a story about Princess Liah, Chuebacka and Emperor Pallpotine, nobody would read it, not because it was a bad story, but because I don't even care enough to get the names of the main characters right.

Maybe I am too picky, or too easily annoyed, I don't know, but that is just how I feel.

Thoughts?