@shopperbob wrote:
I have not experienced any change with the MSCs grading. It certainly could be that I have not completed work for a specific client that warrants closer scrutiny. A second possibility is the editor decided any shopper whose screen name is taken from a tombstone, needs to be held to a higher standard.
@sestrahelena wrote:
@shopperbob wrote:
I have not experienced any change with the MSCs grading. It certainly could be that I have not completed work for a specific client that warrants closer scrutiny. A second possibility is the editor decided any shopper whose screen name is taken from a tombstone, needs to be held to a higher standard.
My friend doesn't understand the tombstone thing. Could you elaborate for me...I mean... her?
@Madetoshop wrote:
Wordsmith Pros? I had one where they graded me low with a whole bunch of criticism regarding complex sentences, spelling e.g. lead instead of led. I was incredulous. This was maybe 3-4 years ago? Wrote to the scheduler as Wordsmith would not respond to me. The scheduler cared enough to read my report, said she thought it was great, nothing wrong with it and changed my score to a 10. Ha!
@BirdyC wrote:
Wordsmith Pros are the most uniformed editors I've ever encountered. A freelance client of mine uses them for copywriting and complains about them. Which is why I get their work to re-do! LOL.
@ColoKate63 wrote:
@BirdyC wrote:
Wordsmith Pros are the most uniformed editors I've ever encountered. A freelance client of mine uses them for copywriting and complains about them. Which is why I get their work to re-do! LOL.
“Uninformed,” not uniformed, right?
I’m giggling at the thought of an army of Gen Z college kids (how I imagine the Wordsmith Pros) sitting in coffee shops with open laptops- all wearing some sort of Dickensian scribe uniform.
@Madetoshop wrote:
Wordsmith Pros? I had one where they graded me low with a whole bunch of criticism regarding complex sentences, spelling e.g. lead instead of led. I was incredulous. This was maybe 3-4 years ago? Wrote to the scheduler as Wordsmith would not respond to me. The scheduler cared enough to read my report, said she thought it was great, nothing wrong with it and changed my score to a 10. Ha!
@Ideagirl wrote:
I did a report a few weeks ago on a job I have done many times ( at least 50 over the past few years). I did it exactly as I always have. The Wordsmith editor gave me a 9/10 and chastised me for doing "the bare minimum." As in, I did exactly what the guidelines asked for? That is the only thing I could think of. When those jobs popped up this month the pay had been cut 30%, so I decided to pass since they did not care for my "bare minimum" efforts.
@sestrahelena wrote:
“At which pump did you fuel at?”
That one has been driving me nuts for many, many years.
@Notme2021 wrote:
I doubt the client would notice, and it shouldn’t be marked off it’s so common. [/quote=Notme2021]
@Madetoshop wrote:
...spelling e.g. lead instead of led. I was incredulous.
Honestly? You both don't think that a blatant misspelling shouldn't be marked down because it's so common? They are two different words with two different tenses.
That's why we're losing the ability to use language properly. "Everybody does it" leads to everybody doing it and nobody remembering what's correct. If we make a mistake, and I include myself in that (because I do, and I expect to be marked down for it), we should be dinged for it. Why wouldn't we be? We're being paid to write properly. Or should we just say, "Oh, you know what I mean. It doesn't matter that I did it wrong."
Sorry, but THIS is one my MY pet peeves. People not caring that they made a mistake because "you know what I mean" and/or everybody does it. Well, no; sometimes we don't.
I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.
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@BirdyC wrote:
@Notme2021 wrote:
I doubt the client would notice, and it shouldn’t be marked off it’s so common. [/quote=Notme2021]
@Madetoshop wrote:
...spelling e.g. lead instead of led. I was incredulous.
Honestly? You both don't think that a blatant misspelling shouldn't be marked down because it's so common? They are two different words with two different tenses.
That's why we're losing the ability to use language properly. "Everybody does it" leads to everybody doing it and nobody remembering what's correct. If we make a mistake, and I include myself in that (because I do, and I expect to be marked down for it), we should be dinged for it. Why wouldn't we be? We're being paid to write properly. Or should we just say, "Oh, you know what I mean. It doesn't matter that I did it wrong."
Sorry, but THIS is one my MY pet peeves. People not caring that they made a mistake because "you know what I mean" and/or everybody does it. Well, no; sometimes we don't.
@Madetoshop wrote:
OM goodness. I used led instead of lead. Apologies if I did not convey that correctly in my post. Maybe that's why I deserve what I get, LOL. Honestly, always. Why would one lie? Thank you all.
@BirdyC wrote:
@Madetoshop wrote:
OM goodness. I used led instead of lead. Apologies if I did not convey that correctly in my post. Maybe that's why I deserve what I get, LOL. Honestly, always. Why would one lie? Thank you all.
I'm not understanding! You used "led" instead of "lead" and not "lead" instead of "led"? In any event, it sounds like whichever one you used instead of the other was the wrong one, and you felt you should not have been dinged. Is that right?
Maybe MSCs need to use half-points so they could grade a report a 9.5 instead of a 9 for a grammar or spelling issue. I don't know. I just think that expecting a perfect grade for something that has errors in it is very strange. Regardless of the number of total points involved.
All that aside, I agree that Wordsmith Pros and many, many other editors do not themselves have appropriate language skills and mark down for things that are correct, but which they think are incorrect. I've had that happen a number of times. It's maddening.
@Madetoshop wrote:
@BirdyC.
Wrong. I used "led." Correct tense and spelling. :-)
@Madetoshop wrote:
So your usage was correct, and they decided it was wrong? Ohforcryin' out loud! Almost nothing frustrates me more than when that happens. An editor marks you down for something that was correct in your report. Because *they* don't know the proper usage. Argh.
I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.
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@BirdyC wrote:
All that aside, I agree that Wordsmith Pros and many, many other editors do not themselves have appropriate language skills and mark down for things that are correct, but which they think are incorrect. I've had that happen a number of times. It's maddening.