In an RPG I joined, one of the players started a post with this:

They're somewhere in the middle of Oxford and by the middle he means middle-of-nowhere, because there's nothing but countryside for miles. All lush green rolling hills and the occasional spectacle of grazing livestock.

I was confused at first because I've been to Oxford and it doesn't look much like that, and then it dawned on me the person likely meant Oxfordshire, so in the OOC post I said "Just a note: it's Oxfordshire, not Oxford". Tonight I check my email and I have two people jumping on me. One says "I think she knows what she was talking about when she made the post", to which I replied "Unless there's a part of Oxford I haven't seen before, then based on the description in that post, it sounds like she's talking about Oxfordshire, not the city of Oxford."

The other was downright hostile: "Just a note (and unlike the first gentleman, I mean this to completely be a bastard): Obviously your perception is skewed. This is not your journal and certainly not the place for you to come criticizing anyone. So, uh, kindly redraw that line and step behind it. Better yet, let me help you out.

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There you go, go on and step right on behind that. Thanks for visiting. Come see us again soon. :D

I'm out of line correcting a detail? MY perception is skewed? *twitchtwitchboom*

I tried to be polite when I replied with "No offense was meant and I'm sorry if it came off that way. I was pointing up a detail I noticed and I wasn't aware pointing something out in the OOC area was out of line. I didn't criticize anything she wrote or how she was portraying the character, I pointed out an error in a place name. Big difference. So sorry if people here mistake that for criticizing them."

I checked a map of England and when I looked up Oxford, it came up as Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Have I missed something and saying 'Oxford' goes for the city and the surrounding shire?