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Force of habit to be honest I used to do it wayyyy more, but now try to restrain to important edit notes like "turns out I'm wrong as the reply mentions, don't
by corobo 5y ago
Force of habit to be honest
I used to do it wayyyy more, but now try to restrain to important edit notes like "turns out I'm wrong as the reply mentions, don't believe this comment, leaving original below for posterity"
Don't forget if people don't add edits, you wont know. I think on average I edit a comment 5-10 times to get the wording right, my first drafts are usually far worse than the guff I actually leave up :)
Pro tip to edit types: HN lets you delay your post becoming visible, get all your edits in before it goes live. It's controlled by the 'delay' option in your profile and is measured in minutes
- lanstin 5y agoI should turn that on. I think north of 90% of all my posts since Covid started have typos. Not sure how that global thing has made my typing so bad or inattentive but it seems to be at correlated.
- brimble 5y agoI've gotten much worse about that over the years. I used to almost never have typos or grammatical errors in my writing, starting... I dunno, at age 10? Really young, anyway. If I made a mistake I'd catch it instantly and fix it without missing a beat. Some time in my 30s I started to get worse. My main problem seems to be simply skipping entire words, but I'm also far worse at catching word or phrase re-use without a separate edit pass.