I can say that this site is free of charge and one can often find interesting information, or digest of information collected elsewhere. With that in mind, occasional misspelling and inaccurate information are not important. As far as I am concerned, SP is one of my favorite sites.

 

Compare it to what you can read in mainstream media, where you can find information like B-52 bombing targets during WWII.

 

DG

 

 

Hey, don't denigrate our brave BUFF crews in an alternative reality. 

 

If it weren't for the chittering root weevils in the lamestream leftie-luser legacy media, we'd never have learned nothing about their campaign against the evil Luftwaffe, would we? 

What's funny is that we have on the one hand

a) people who are (apparently) driven to distraction by the (relatively trivial) grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that are common on strategypage but (even they would probably agree) don't detract substantively from the information presented.

b) people who are (apparently) driven to distraction by the comments from grammar-nazis, correcting the mistakes.

 

 

1) In my mind, the posting of sloppy, unedited text is just lazy.  Then again, the rather large amount of text posted here on a regular basis would kind of make it a quantity vs quality thing.  I'll take quantity, because to me the grammar, etc issues are in fact trivial.    "Free" does matter; the fact is that everything has a cost, even if it's only an opportunity cost.  If a person has 3 hours of spare time (particularly since they're not getting paid for it), and they choose it to write 6 articles here sloppily, PERSONALLY that's preferable to writing only 3 carefully-edited articles.

 

2) I look to the comments for insightful discussion or questions.  To have posts whose only contribution is adding a comma or fixing capitalization is AT LEAST as disruptive to the flow of thought and presentation of information as the original errors.

 

3) By now it is ABSOLUTELY proven that these corrections are completely ignored, and the original article is never corrected.  So what's the point of posting the corrections except some sort of ego-masturbation, or an effort to prove how much "smarter" the poster is than the original writer?  What's that worth to the rest of us?  Not really into watching guys wanking, whether it's actual or intellectual.