Monday, January 19, 2015

Plug-In Editor



This will be short and sweet.

Now this was something I thought of a few months ago, and was holding it close and dear for a bit, but in all actuality I'm not getting to it anytime soon. I don't understand why someone doesn't create a universal plug-in editor. I hate it when I publish something and later discover I missed a typo or grammar error. Being an internet junkie, as many of you probably are, uncovering grammatical errors is no unicorn or shooting star. They are all over the place, all the time, on major press publications. Most definitely here as we speak. No need to include screenshots and embarrass anyone else. We all know it is true. Why therefore isn't there some type of plug-in like +AddThis which websites can then plug into their website and anyone with an account, kinda like +Wikipedia, can suggest corrections to the author. This seems highly overdue and any publisher or writer would be extremely grateful. As it now stands, for those that care to notify the writer, either you have to be connected, or you have to spend the tedious time of looking them up and figuring out which social network would be best to contact them on. Additionally, now though if done in the public domain, it can sometimes be perceived as a jab or embarrassing. Especially if it has already been seen by many people. This would be discrete for the public and fun for the participants. You could even gamify it, kinda like the real life Elevate grammar test but by getting higher points for the mistakes you catch on the websites with greater influence. This could be easily calculated by their +Klout scores. Everyone would love playing in real life the game of editing and "treasure finding," and competing with friends. Furthermore, this would show publishers and reporters who is really reading and focusing on their stuff, rather than just liking, posting, retweeting and commenting.

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