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Quote from: FinShaggy on September 13, 2013, 05:25:16 PM

"Learning English" and being a Grammar Nazi are 2 different things.

I would never have called him out on this were it not for essentially claiming that he is a professional writer and has the degree to prove it. When you flat out lie like this, it makes the rest of us look bad. Furthermore, he wants 1 BTC per 1000 words (due to his extensive knowledge of the English language), although he, again, is lying to earn money.

You can tell based on the press releases posted on BitcoinPRBuzz alone that he is far less than professional. This leads me to believe that he is attempting to use trickery and false claims to get paid more by people who otherwise don't know better. I have morals and I can't see myself sitting by while things like this happen. They destroy the reputation for each and every one of us, so when people do things like this it has a direct effect on me as well.

I'm not saying it is a problem to point out his errors, I am saying that there is a difference between "Learning English" and being a Grammar Nazi.

I don't see where this comes from, though.

I'm coming from a few posts ago, where I said something like "I didn't know that was supposed to be like that" and you said "English is not a hard language to learn".

And how does that lead in to "grammar Nazi?" If someone were to run a red light or a stop sign in their car, would you claim that anyone who gives them a ticket is a "driving Nazi" because they expect that people know the basics of the road?

Last time I checked, grammar errors can't splatter you all over the pavement.

Let's try this with a closer analogy.

You're running a bank and you need to hire someone to run your financials (determine interest rates, handle taxes, things like that). You hire someone that graduated with honor's in mathematics in the field you're dealing with (ie. statistics). After a month, you've found that he has consistently miscalculated your interest rate, taxes, etc. for your bank.

You wouldn't call him out on it because all he's doing is making mistakes (like forgetting to carry over decimals, missing a value in formulas, etc.)? Nobody died, so it doesn't matter how unprofessional he is, right?

The simple fact is that if someone is selling themselves as a highly-rated professional in a field, yet they are consistently making mistakes (check out the last press release he posted for many more examples), they need to be called out. Much like I would call out the mathematics "professional," I feel the need to do that here as well. If I were hiring a mechanic for my car and he had a degree and all certifications to handle what he's supposed to, I would expect that he knows what he's doing. If he started screwing everything up because he has no idea how to work on cars, I'd be pretty pissed off. The same thing goes for writing. Don't sell yourself as being a professional writer when your writing (especially when dealing with things that represent other companies) isn't professional.

Honestly, if you still aren't getting the point, you deserve to be ripped off.