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Is it just me, or is it weird that this brand new blog (really just an advert for a writing company) has had 3 blog posts, all 3 have been submitted to HN (2 by

by EwanToo 14y ago

Is it just me, or is it weird that this brand new blog (really just an advert for a writing company) has had 3 blog posts, all 3 have been submitted to HN (2 by the same person), and all 3 have gotten pretty high scores? The other 2 stories being: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304317 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5292431 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5292431 They must be good writers!

Articulate 14y ago
EwanToo I am the writer- those two guys just showed me the site. I used to blog on my company website (for like a month) but I quit because it never went anywhere- but when it gets posted here people talk about it- comment etc. made me want to write more.
- EwanToo 14y ago
  I'm glad to hear you're a real person then :)
cocoflunchy 14y ago
Hate to do the grammar nazi here, but since the company seems to offer grammar editing, reading phrases like This new method helped us to raise a more money in less time then normal boring pledge drives. doesn't lead to much trust in their skills...
- Articulate 14y ago
  Yea I don't make much money as an editor. see: http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-employer/fear-and-loathing-of-grammar-and-punctuation-rules/ http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-emplo...
  - cocoflunchy 14y ago
    That's an interesting article, thanks. And I'd like to say that I did enjoy your first article too, and that I was willing to overlook the tiny details... until I came here and saw that writing (and more than writing - grammar editing) was your core competency. But I'm curious then: do you currently do the grammar editing yourself (in your "Fixer" package)?
  - ssebro 14y ago
    Please, please fix "I am a good writer, the content that I create is quiet good (I think)". That's the first line of your paragraph about gramatical oversights, and you say "quiet" instead of "quite". Also, the "(i think)" makes me feel like you're not a professional. ALSO, I'm sure you can hire someone on craigslist to give your work a second read for gramatical mistakes, if that's really a blind spot you care about. But I worry, are you even trying to get better? It sounds like you've accepted your current skill level as a fixed balance that can't improve, when that's probably not the case.
    - zeckalpha 14y ago
      I thought that was a pun!

by EwanToo 14y ago

Articulate 14y ago

EwanToo I am the writer- those two guys just showed me the site. I used to blog on my company website (for like a month) but I quit because it never went anywhere- but when it gets posted here people talk about it- comment etc. made me want to write more.

EwanToo 14y ago
I'm glad to hear you're a real person then :)

cocoflunchy 14y ago

Hate to do the grammar nazi here, but since the company seems to offer grammar editing, reading phrases like This new method helped us to raise a more money in less time then normal boring pledge drives. doesn't lead to much trust in their skills...

Articulate 14y ago
Yea I don't make much money as an editor. see: http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-employer/fear-and-loathing-of-grammar-and-punctuation-rules/ http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-emplo...
- cocoflunchy 14y ago
  That's an interesting article, thanks. And I'd like to say that I did enjoy your first article too, and that I was willing to overlook the tiny details... until I came here and saw that writing (and more than writing - grammar editing) was your core competency. But I'm curious then: do you currently do the grammar editing yourself (in your "Fixer" package)?
- ssebro 14y ago
  Please, please fix "I am a good writer, the content that I create is quiet good (I think)". That's the first line of your paragraph about gramatical oversights, and you say "quiet" instead of "quite". Also, the "(i think)" makes me feel like you're not a professional. ALSO, I'm sure you can hire someone on craigslist to give your work a second read for gramatical mistakes, if that's really a blind spot you care about. But I worry, are you even trying to get better? It sounds like you've accepted your current skill level as a fixed balance that can't improve, when that's probably not the case.
  - zeckalpha 14y ago
    I thought that was a pun!