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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1132940" data-attributes="member: 571">As far as I can tell, everybody and their great uncle Willy can edit for a game publisher. That is really nothing to boast about.As to message board versus 'professional' writing. Bad habits sir, bad habits. Poor spelling, grammar, and composition on a message boards shows laziness of thought, and indicates poor writing skills in other areas. A person who slacks off in one arena tends to slack off in others. Fact of life.Then there's the matter of first impressions. I know that first impressions aren't always accurate, but more often than you think, they are.So you wouldn't base any assesment of a writer's skills on what he posted on a message board. Trouble is, what he produces for a forum is likely to be what he produces for publication. Habit. Go to any message board where professionally published writers post -and by professionally published I mean writers published by mainstream publishers, and take careful note of the quality of their message board writing.My point? They care. They care about how they come across, how effectively they communicate their ideas. They care about the quality of their writing, regardless of the venue. Can you trust people who writes poorly on a bulletin board to care? To care enough to do their best instead of doing only what they think is necessary? I submit you can't. I don't trust people who abuse animals when they think they aren't being watched. I will not trust someone who is a sloppy writer when he's sure it doesn't matter. Remember, character is what you are when you think your behavior doesn't count.You are being graded, Ichabod, and so far you have yet to convince me you deserve a passing grade. The fact you defend incompetence alone confirms my assessment of your skills. That you do it with such vehemence is 'icing on the cake'. Some would call that defensiveness, a good indicator that you really don't believe in what you are saying.I will continue to support good writing, even on message boards. Because it matters. Doing a good job matters, no matter what your teachers taught you in school. And if I can prevent even one person from going through what I did earlier in my life, I will consider my 'rants' against bad message board writing worth it.BTW, I made a number of typoes in the message above, and even in this part. I went back and corrected them. Did me no harm. It won't kill you to proof your posts.</blockquote>

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