GooseGrade turns us all into nitpickers, not that there’s anything wrong with that
Posted on October 4th, 2008
GooseGrade lets readers of a blog highlight mistakes of the copy-edit sort so that the blogger can fix them. It stops spammers by grading each copy-editor based on whether her suggested changes are accepted by the blogger. Here’s a C-NET article about it.
I’d try it at this blog, because I do occasionally (= constantly) make mistakes, but I’m on the road and can’t easily update my template…
There were two episodes where I was paid to be (a) a proofreader (b) a copyeditor. It seems to be a skill like riding a bicycle.
When I spot an error in a blog that I like or respect, I email the writer privately with the correction. It seems more civilized that way.
But I’ll give GooseGrade a whirl, thanks.
This will save my wife a lot of time if I can get it to work on LiveJournal. :)