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Jason: don't take this as a personal attack, but proofreading is your friend. I know you're a busy person, but it seems like more often than not I have to rerea
by alexophile 16y ago
Jason: don't take this as a personal attack, but proofreading is your friend. I know you're a busy person, but it seems like more often than not I have to reread your copy because you didn't.
- bigohms 16y agoI disagree, perceived benefit of the contribution outweighs errors in grammar. Try refactoring your language parser to improve single pass absorption rate.
- jasonmcalacanis 16y agoi like to NOT copy edit and leave in errors on purpose so folksknow it's reallly me.
- slouch 16y agoI have never thought that you might be paying people to log into your personal hackernews account to post something on your behalf. I do think often that the typos mean you don't value my time as a reader.
- alexophile 16y agoI expect we'll have to agree to disagree on this, but there's a case to be made that it objectively damages you. Consider this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-DuckDuckGo-block-Mahalo-com http://www.quora.com/Why-did-DuckDuckGo-block-Mahalo-com You are one of the closest conceivable people to the question, and your answer got downvoted because it was ostensibly broken English, which made it look spammy (and thus, kind of ironic)
- krakensden 16y agoI suspect his reply may have been an attempt at levity.
- cabalamat 16y agoNot proofreading also comes across as self-centered and arrogant. If other people's time is worth as much as your own, and 3600 people will read a message, then it's worth spending an hour making sure that people can understand it on average one second more quickly. Of course, most people value their own time more highly than others'. But even if that's the case, it's surely worth spending 5 minutes to get it right.