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i like to NOT copy edit and leave in errors on purpose so folksknow it's reallly me.


I expect we'll have to agree to disagree on this, but there's a case to be made that it objectively damages you.

Consider this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-DuckDuckGo-block-Mahalo-com

You are one of the closest conceivable people to the question, and your answer got downvoted because it was ostensibly broken English, which made it look spammy (and thus, kind of ironic)


I suspect his reply may have been an attempt at levity.


I have never thought that you might be paying people to log into your personal hackernews account to post something on your behalf. I do think often that the typos mean you don't value my time as a reader.




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