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What the hell is up with economist.com proofreading. A grammatical or spelling error in the article title is a red flag to me that screams "I'm a piece of garba

What the hell is up with economist.com proofreading. A grammatical or spelling error in the article title is a red flag to me that screams "I'm a piece of garbage, don't read me". Time to reestablish quality over quantity.

uberswe 9y ago
Haha, I saw the same thing. No way I would pay 20 euro to read that.
- seanp2k2 9y ago
  I used to play a game when I'd read TechCrunch for whatever misguided reason: I'd read until the first obvious spelling or grammatical error. I don't believe that I ever made it beyond the second paragraph. US journalism today is largely awful clickbaity crap, and the ad revenue encourages a race to the bottom for content quality. It'd be awesome if there were a way to align incentives for this to not be case. So far, nothing I've heard of seems to be working very well aside from running ads and trying to sell subscriptions, sometimes despite low-quality content.
tir 9y ago
Exactly, if they couldn't even get the title right, what else in the article is going to be incorrect?
crdoconnor 9y ago
The economist's dirty secret is that it's mostly written by a bunch of cheap graduates.
pixelpoet 9y ago
The whole native English-speaking world is heading this way, things like singular vs plural and even past tense are going the way of the dinosaur (and that's without getting into subtler things like much vs many). Interestingly, one of the first things I noticed in Germany is that almost everyone speaks and writes better English than people from the UK and US.
ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
In case the error gets fixed, will you guys clarify what you are referring to? Do you want it to say "crypto-currency game in town" instead of "game in crypto-currency town"?
- wallawe 9y ago
  title: "Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town"
  - perseusprime11 9y ago
    Let’s see how long they will take to fix
    - deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
- sjkelly 9y ago
  "no long" -> "no longer"

uberswe 9y ago

Haha, I saw the same thing. No way I would pay 20 euro to read that.

seanp2k2 9y ago
I used to play a game when I'd read TechCrunch for whatever misguided reason: I'd read until the first obvious spelling or grammatical error. I don't believe that I ever made it beyond the second paragraph. US journalism today is largely awful clickbaity crap, and the ad revenue encourages a race to the bottom for content quality. It'd be awesome if there were a way to align incentives for this to not be case. So far, nothing I've heard of seems to be working very well aside from running ads and trying to sell subscriptions, sometimes despite low-quality content.

tir 9y ago

Exactly, if they couldn't even get the title right, what else in the article is going to be incorrect?

crdoconnor 9y ago

The economist's dirty secret is that it's mostly written by a bunch of cheap graduates.

pixelpoet 9y ago

The whole native English-speaking world is heading this way, things like singular vs plural and even past tense are going the way of the dinosaur (and that's without getting into subtler things like much vs many). Interestingly, one of the first things I noticed in Germany is that almost everyone speaks and writes better English than people from the UK and US.

ghostbrainalpha 9y ago

In case the error gets fixed, will you guys clarify what you are referring to? Do you want it to say "crypto-currency game in town" instead of "game in crypto-currency town"?

wallawe 9y ago
title: "Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town"
- perseusprime11 9y ago
  Let’s see how long they will take to fix
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
sjkelly 9y ago
"no long" -> "no longer"