I am about to share with you what I believe is the hardest part of “blogging” for me here on steemit.com. Now, I am sure there are some of you who think that it might be properly constructing my sentences, or having the right tense of the verb I am trying to use and all that which goes along with grammar. I couldn’t care less about grammar; if I did I would have gotten signed up for that Grammerly program that seems to keep popping up all the time when I Google search stuff.
Where I struggle the most is proof reading, as a proof reader of other people’s stuff I am pretty good at spotting typos and words that may have been left out but when it comes to my own writing and proofing my Daily Dose I flat suck at it.
I think that I am not alone in this case either, others I have seen make the same mistakes I do. I have to believe that it is 10 times harder to proof read your own writing simply because your brain knows what is suppose to be there even though the words your eyes are showing may not be what is supposed to be there. So the brain just overrides what it is seeing and moves on, which are how the word “in” can end up in a spot were “is” should have been. They are both two letter words, starting with the letter “I” and so the brain just let it slide or at least mine does in some cases. Who here agrees with my take on proof reading your own stuff?
So when you see a mistake in another person’s blog post how do you go about handling it? Do you just call it out down below in a comment?
I appreciate when people let me know that I have screwed up, I honestly do. I myself have a hard time though putting it right below in the comments. It can come across the wrong way to the person who wrote the post, for the most part people really do care about posting quality content, that is how the rewards system is suppose to work, so I won’t just chunk a reply saying “hey dude, fix your screw up” and then tell them what I see wrong with it.
There are people that will do that, I’m just not one of those if at all possible. I try my best to find the writer in a discord channel and drop them a direct message, and almost always the person is very appreciative of my tracking them down and letting them know.
If I can’t find them to DM them I will go find a real old post of theirs and write a comment so that it probably would never even be seen by others, but I just give them the heads up on the current situation. Once they have acknowledged it, I go back and delete my comment. That is a pretty clean way of doing it and also where you don’t embarrass them or yourself by calling out someone’s error.
How many times have you seen a mistake and just let it go when reading someone else’s post? I hate to admit it but I have early on here in my steemit days, not so much anymore though. I won’t even touch grammar for the most part, I stick to stuff that I am absolutely sure of. I know that you don’t get a “price” for winning a contest so I will, and have, slipped a message to the person that they might want to change it to “prize”. That same person looks out for me also and so does another person that recently we have been helping each other out by keeping a close eye on what we each post.
We are all here to earn and learn so if you come across something of mine that could use some fixin’ just let me know. Even if you have to write it in the comments rather than track me down or use an old post, I will appreciate it and you can always delete the comment later if you like.
Seeing that this is Saturday and my normal day for giving away some SBI I have decided to give the SBI to some people who have regularly taken the time to help me by letting me know when I have some errors in my Daily Dose. This week’s folks who I have sponsored into the Steem Basic Income program are @movement19 , @paparodin and @buttcoins.
There are others of you that have on occasion taken the time to point some things out I’m sure and I do appreciate it; but these folks make a real effort on a regular basis to keep my daily dose in the best shape it can be, and that is a pretty tough thing to do considering who is writing this thing. So thanks for all you have done and will continue to do I’m sure.
For those of you who are about to message me about the lack of the “g” on fixin’ , don’t bother. In Texas and other places in the south the “ ‘ “ takes the place of the “g” and it is silent.
Ya’ll have a great day and weekend and stay safe.
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
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