Why do text articles that are written on popular news, hobby, and aggregate sites have typos, errors, etc.? I thought they wouldn’t want to pay any real “editors,” but why not just use Grammarly or spellcheck what they write in a word article?
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I use Grammarly all the time, I even have a premium account. Yeah, 98% of what Grammarly catches I would catch myself in a careful proofread, but its automatic highlighting is what saves me tons of time.
Having said that, Grammarly can’t be/is not used sometimes because:
– it’s potentially sending what you write to their servers. Depending on the sensitivity of what you do, who you work for that may be a no-no
– while the browser add-in works great on sites like Reddit, it may not play nicely with heavily scripted web apps like a lot of content management and publishing services are… a lot of whom already have their own grammar and spellchecking.
– sometimes you don’t care.
– nowadays a lot of social media “reporting” is done from a mobile device – those articles are being submitted from a phone or a tablet. So if Grammarly doesn’t support those devices yet (they just announced iPad support) or the browser plugin doesn’t work on mobile browsers or it doesn’t play nicely with the app that does the content management… I can see why its not used.
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