G+_marc williamson Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Here we go again. Come on ArsTechnica we figured you learned your lesson the first time... Don't go writing about things you know nothing about. http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/9/5396132/googles-diane-hackborn-puts-arstechnica-in-their-place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Saw this earlier today on Ars. I love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Lyndon Main Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Yeah but it's hard to take the verge seriously when their short commentary includes 'first they right this gem of a piece', the word articlke and having 'quoted here' not her. There are a few other grammatical gaffs as well in about six sentences of copy. Doesn't necessarily alter the underlying premise but there are many kinds of poor journalism and you have to be very careful about your own work when berating your competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_HeCareth M. Wosu Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Lyndon Main It's a community forum post. Which I wrote. Probably want to look a bit closely. ?I'm not a journalist nor do I claim to be one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Lyndon Main Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Ahhh... Interesting HeCareth M. Wosu thanks for pointing that out. Didn't matter how hard I looked as on mobile apart from the byline there is nothing to indicate that it wasn't an article https://www.dropbox.com/s/hpd9jw8riwe7usb/Screenshot_2014-02-10-14-31-45.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/wy6uibtngtjnybz/Screenshot_2014-02-10-14-30-24.png Very odd that there's no indication. I can happily forgive errors in user content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_HeCareth M. Wosu Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Lyndon Main You do have a point. On mobile it does look like a Verge article. I did correct those mistakes. I tend to not read things back before I post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Lyndon Main Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 As do I HeCareth M. Wosu. The standard I hold user comments and posts to are vastly different to those I hold journalists to. They get paid to be careful! :-) I might email them actually as their formatting could potentially give them a bad name if it was actually legitimately offensive content that looked like it was theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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