Spelling Errors And To Reward People For Mistakes

Low Quality Or Just Poor Grammar

We know that spam and low quality doesn't go well on Hive. Most curators would ignore low quality posts and they are likely to downvote any form of spam they see. We have various initiatives and users out there working hard to prevent spammers from stealing rewards from the reward pools, they downvote to prevent theft or to reduce the abuse they see. Most of us have done that, or at least will do that at some point on Hive because we want to protect it from bad things.

I read @onealfa's post: "0.01% vs 100%", and it definitely sparked some cool discussion. This article is inspired by the comments in that post, and the actual post itself as well.

While onealfa talks about how he will tell people that:

"Your post is a complete garbage, with a ZERO value (in my eyes), a value way less than 1 cent? I wish I had never seen it. But I did. And I can not "unsee" it..."

I started to think about how much we reward people for their mistakes.

Look, I am not fluent in English and I know that I am far from being the best writer. I probably have spelling errors and grammar mistakes in each and every article I publish, but I spend time, put in effort and I try to make my content as readable- easy to understand and correct as possible.

This can be said about all the content creators I talk with, and all the users I support as well. All of them are putting in time and effort. I know that we are filled with people from all over the world and some people have a harder time to learn, speak and write English than others.

There can be various reasons for that, but it is still a fact.

I have nothing against grammar mistakes, but I am against people who doesn't even seem to try. I have worked with people from Venezuela, Pakistan and India. Most of them made mistakes, but I could enjoy the things they said because I could understand what they tried to tell me.

I don't care if someone spells "swimming" with 3 m's. That's just a typo and nothing that bothers me at all. I have seen some people doing the weirdest and craziest things though..

This is one example:

Today I will tell you what trades I have made in Bianace today and tomorrow. And what is the price of btc and what is the information about it?

I have no problems with "Bianace", because it's basically a typo. The rest of the sentence is formulated into a question, which feels awkward to me but I still don't care much about it. Today and "tomorrow" is feeling weird as well. It could be that the author means "yesterday" or what he will do tomorrow, so it becomes somewhat of a guessing game at this point.

I know how difficult it can be sometimes though and I don't mind minor spelling errors. I probably make those mistakes often as well and I'm not the grammar-police.

However, when an article is basically filled with these mistakes and the article is 1500+ words it starts to get annoying. I don't want to spend as much time trying to understand what the article is about as I spend to actually read the article. That escalate quickly and it would suddenly take me twice as long to consume content if I had to figure out what the author was trying to say.

I don't know if it's google translate that is being used or if it's the language barrier, but the content doesn't come out as unique, original and spellchecked when I see a bunch of words mixed together in an awkward attempt to make readable content. It looks like low quality content in my book, and I judge the content and author due to those mistakes. It doesn't feel like the author has put in any effort at all and if I were to reward such content, it feels like I could just as easily reward plagiarism as well.

It feels like more or less the same amount of effort has been put in..

Do You Reward Mistakes Like That?

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