Comments on: Why I unsubscribed from your blog http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/ Anthony Kirlew's Internet Marketing Blog Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: oldschool http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1602 oldschool Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:15:28 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1602 @ Joe - <blockquote> I am not a spelling and grammar Nazi nor am I a snooty upper crust A list blogger, I am merely someone who believes in doing the best job I can do to get my point across effectively to my readers.</blockquote> I am with you here -- I think some of the folks thought otherwise of me which is why the "debate" started. @ Joe –

I am not a spelling and grammar Nazi nor am I a snooty upper crust A list blogger, I am merely someone who believes in doing the best job I can do to get my point across effectively to my readers.

I am with you here — I think some of the folks thought otherwise of me which is why the “debate” started.

]]> By: Joe Cheray http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 Joe Cheray Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:53:25 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1595 Interesting debate old school. Now here is my point of view. I couldn't get the mechanics down growing up. I struggled with that aspect of writing and I still have problems not providing strong thesis statements in papers at school. However, I think if I have the saving grace of good grammar and spelling to fall back on that I will be taken seriously when people come to my blog to read my material. I write tutorials from time to time and I do not want a typo in there. Even tho it would not matter much when making the numerical adjustment part of the tutorial but in order to provide the optimal benefit to those who use tutorials especially design tutorials correct spelling is crucial. If I told someone to go to their ey gropper tool instead of their eye dropper tool they would think I was some newbie blogger and designer and go on down the road to another better written tutorial author. I am not a spelling and grammar Nazi nor am I a snooty upper crust A list blogger, I am merely someone who believes in doing the best job I can do to get my point across effectively to my readers. Interesting debate old school. Now here is my point of view. I couldn’t get the mechanics down growing up. I struggled with that aspect of writing and I still have problems not providing strong thesis statements in papers at school. However, I think if I have the saving grace of good grammar and spelling to fall back on that I will be taken seriously when people come to my blog to read my material. I write tutorials from time to time and I do not want a typo in there. Even tho it would not matter much when making the numerical adjustment part of the tutorial but in order to provide the optimal benefit to those who use tutorials especially design tutorials correct spelling is crucial. If I told someone to go to their ey gropper tool instead of their eye dropper tool they would think I was some newbie blogger and designer and go on down the road to another better written tutorial author.

I am not a spelling and grammar Nazi nor am I a snooty upper crust A list blogger, I am merely someone who believes in doing the best job I can do to get my point across effectively to my readers.

]]> By: oldschool http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1440 oldschool Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:20:46 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1440 @ Linda - cute. @ Linda – cute.

]]> By: Linda Bustos http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1427 Linda Bustos Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:30:47 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1427 Maybe they're optimizing for misspellings? Maybe they’re optimizing for misspellings?

]]> By: oldschool http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1411 oldschool Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:29:21 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1411 @ rae - glad I can provide amusement and twittering excitement all at the same time :-) @ rae – glad I can provide amusement and twittering excitement all at the same time :-)

]]> By: Rae http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1409 Rae Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:19:31 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1409 @oldschool actually, I didn't... I looked through to blog because this post being twittered was the first time I ever saw it - the error simply stuck out as I was reading and I couldn't help but be amused at the irony. >>>point isn’t prefection it is making the effort. I doubt graywolf "attempts" to be error riddled (again, love ya gw). But, he is also extremely busy... so I'll take an error riddled gem over a grammar correct rehash bullshit post anyday :)... but that is just me... I also don't try very hard with my blogging efforts, so maybe I think like the minority. @oldschool actually, I didn’t… I looked through to blog because this post being twittered was the first time I ever saw it – the error simply stuck out as I was reading and I couldn’t help but be amused at the irony.

>>>point isn’t prefection it is making the effort.

I doubt graywolf “attempts” to be error riddled (again, love ya gw). But, he is also extremely busy… so I’ll take an error riddled gem over a grammar correct rehash bullshit post anyday :) … but that is just me… I also don’t try very hard with my blogging efforts, so maybe I think like the minority.

]]> By: graywolf http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1401 graywolf Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:09:25 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1401 @rae error riddled LMAO! @rae error riddled LMAO!

]]> By: oldschool http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1399 oldschool Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:22:33 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1399 @ john andrews - one day, I will get to write about all of our medical experiences. It has been a very challenging season, but the moral of the story is that you need to be your own pharmacist/doctor and check the potential side effects of your meds, so that they don;t treat the symptoms of the meds with meds that conflict with the original med that caused the symptom (which was a side effect). @ Internet Junkie - It's interesting that you should mention foreign bloggers and I think that sort of makes the point even more. If English isn't someone's language and they can manage, how come we can't? @ Rae - Thanks for contributing to the madness. I never claimed to be an English major; don't miss the point (once again, the poll tells the story). The point isn't prefection it is making the effort. I am glad you read more of the blog looking for errors; I will take free editing whenever I can get it - I'm not too proud :-) @ john andrews – one day, I will get to write about all of our medical experiences. It has been a very challenging season, but the moral of the story is that you need to be your own pharmacist/doctor and check the potential side effects of your meds, so that they don;t treat the symptoms of the meds with meds that conflict with the original med that caused the symptom (which was a side effect).

@ Internet Junkie – It’s interesting that you should mention foreign bloggers and I think that sort of makes the point even more. If English isn’t someone’s language and they can manage, how come we can’t?

@ Rae – Thanks for contributing to the madness. I never claimed to be an English major; don’t miss the point (once again, the poll tells the story). The point isn’t prefection it is making the effort. I am glad you read more of the blog looking for errors; I will take free editing whenever I can get it – I’m not too proud :-)

]]> By: Rae http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1397 Rae Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:59:10 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1397 I gotta admit, I am not the best at grammar, though I'm not horrid either. That said, I find it funny that someone with a grammar/typo in a post (http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/01/24/to-guest-blog-or-not-to-guest-blog-that-is-the-question/ - see reasons not to blog, #2) on his own blog a few posts before this one would say "when he doesn’t respect his readers intelligence (or himself) enough to use a spell checker or a grammar checker". Hey, sorry, LOL, but I had to. >>>do you think a journalist would respect your work if they found it, or would they just pass it up They seem to respect graywolf's error riddled posts (love ya GW). I gotta admit, I am not the best at grammar, though I’m not horrid either. That said, I find it funny that someone with a grammar/typo in a post (http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/01/24/to-guest-blog-or-not-to-guest-blog-that-is-the-question/ – see reasons not to blog, #2) on his own blog a few posts before this one would say “when he doesn’t respect his readers intelligence (or himself) enough to use a spell checker or a grammar checker”. Hey, sorry, LOL, but I had to.

>>>do you think a journalist would respect your work if they found it, or would they just pass it up

They seem to respect graywolf’s error riddled posts (love ya GW).

]]> By: Internet Junkie http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1395 Internet Junkie Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:09:36 +0000 http://www.oldschoolseo.com/2008/02/08/why-i-unsubscribed-to-your-blog/#comment-1395 When you write something for the public, you just have to pay attention! You get some bloggers that don't have very good English but still write in English because they want to hit a bigger audience than just the Philippines or Mongolia: I don't mind this, as long as they have interesting things to say. People who have English as a first language should pay attention, but what annoys me most is getting badly spelt emails (especially when they want my money!). By the way, I am French and I try to avoid spelling mistakes and bad grammar on my English languge blog. When you write something for the public, you just have to pay attention!
You get some bloggers that don’t have very good English but still write in English because they want to hit a bigger audience than just the Philippines or Mongolia: I don’t mind this, as long as they have interesting things to say. People who have English as a first language should pay attention, but what annoys me most is getting badly spelt emails (especially when they want my money!). By the way, I am French and I try to avoid spelling mistakes and bad grammar on my English languge blog.

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