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Ich Hasse Hausaufgaben/I Hate Homework (cringely.com)
2 points by rfreytag on Dec 16, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This is somewhat unrelated to the actual story, but I hate when online media updates a story with edits, leaving the prior data struck-out (to show it's been changed).

Our media world moves at a much faster pace than it used to, and we publish on dynamic media moreso than dead-tree. This often leads to story research not always being as in-depth as it used to, and that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

If a writer updates or tweaks stats or typos in a story due to the typical reader-submitted proofreading, I'd rather they just call it out at the end of the story in 1 place. The in-line edits are distracting and add nothing to the actual piece. For very minor spelling/grammatical changes I don't think it needs to be called out at all. Change your 'teh' to 'the' and be done with it.




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