Re: Death knell for quality content?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I think it more likely that the site's average reader simply
lacks the ability to recognize the writing errors.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>

> I think that what is happening is that people want to see articles 
> written
> by people like themselves and not articles that seem like they were 
> written
> by an expert or an outsider looking in.  The average person has 
> average
> writing ability and will make grammatical and other writing errors. 
> So,
> content that is less than perfect is more palatable and approachable 
> than
> content that is polished.

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