Habbox content

[immense]

Never looked at it before but I am reading a few things now and it is scattered with grammatical AND spelling errors! What the?!

[.Liam]

Such as what?

[Robbie]

*gets v6 comment in before management*

[immense]

Not even joking on the first page I went to I spotted numerous errors I can't be bothered to read everything and point them all out because if the first page I saw is anything to go by then...

---------- Post added 23-10-2010 at 02:31 PM ----------

FIRST PAGE I SAW - FIRST 2 PARAGRAPHS


Sierk - Co-Owner
Sierk is the original owner of Habbox and for almost 7 years was the sole owner of Habbox.com and all other affiliated sites. In late 2009 Jin became Co-Owner of Habbox.com and since then Sierk has been a silent owner in Habbox. (NEEDS COMMAS) Sierk joined Habbo in 2002 and joined Habbox in 2003 with its then owner, ex-Hobba Mizki. A while later after Mizki left Habbox and Sierk became the sole owner. For around 5 years Sierk played and (SHOULD BE AN) active role in Habbox and Habbo but since has become less involved and the day to day running of the site is now left to Jin and the team of General Management. (HOW LONG DO YOU WANT THAT SENTENCE TO BE)


Jin joined Habbo in 2004 and later joined Habbox. Jin stayed at Habbox for many years as a site technician (ALL OTHER JOB TITLES ARE CAPITALISED) and was a relatively unknown person until the last two years or so within Habbox. Jin then became an administrator on Habboxforum and quiet (PLZ COME ON GUYZ) some time after became an Assistant General Manager for all things technical. Just weeks after being promoted Jin saw himself being put into the position of Acting General Manager whilst the current General Manager was away. No sooner had the General Manager returned, Habbox saw Jin become Co-Owner with Sierk. It is now down to Jin to make most of the big decisions for Habbox whilst the day to day running of the site is down to the General Management team.

[.Liam]

Those errors have now been updated. Anything else?

[Meanies]

Those errors have now been updated. Anything else?

i know from past experience pages are full of mistakes
go look for yourself and no doubt you'll find a handful on most pages you look at

[Grig]

I had to edit so many SPAG errors when doing content because whoever did them a while back didn't pass primary 1 English and grammar school and needs a rebate.

[Richie]

who cares just wear socks and you won't get pregnant.


O/T: ermm I see an error on one of the pages

[HotelUser]

*gets v6 comment in before management*

I have a striking suspicion that the reason has an affiliation with V6. But our lovely content designers should be able to add content to V6 in a matter of days now.

Lucky them :)

[Alkaz]

I've never realised it was as big of a problem as it so clearly is. At the moment most of the pages on the site are being changed and updated to be a lot more sleeker looking and concise to fit with the new style of the site. If those kind of mistakes have either been there before we started doing so or if they've cropped up as a result of then I whole heartedly apologise for that. It's impossible for us to check and make sure every update which is made is totally perfect, obviously as every update is not prefect I'll be doing my best to ensure that it doesn't happen as much or at all in the future.

[Recursion]

Content designers should be made to take a grammar test before they're taken on as staff, hurrr durrr

[immense]

Give everything to me to proof-read in future.

[Meanies]

I've never realised it was as big of a problem as it so clearly is. At the moment most of the pages on the site are being changed and updated to be a lot more sleeker looking and concise to fit with the new style of the site. If those kind of mistakes have either been there before we started doing so or if they've cropped up as a result of then I whole heartedly apologise for that. It's impossible for us to check and make sure every update which is made is totally perfect, obviously as every update is not prefect I'll be doing my best to ensure that it doesn't happen as much or at all in the future.
no its not? it doesnt take long to proof read something, or check each sentence or two after it's been written. or just copy it all into word or a similar program

[Grig]

Exactly, content designers, like news reporters need a good sense of SPAG. If not there was a problem with recruitment of them.

[Inseriousity.]

I don't read the content unfortunately, it's never been particuarly useful or interesting. I've mentioned it before a few times but it does need some spicing up imo. Then they can work on the grammar :D

[immense]

they need my fabulous writing style on there

[Mrs.McCall]

In all fairness, if you're block writing a bunch of text for 5 different pages, sometimes mistakes go un-noticed. I am sure it'll be double checked.

May I suggest you hire hairpins (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=75478) as your official spell checker?

[immense]

Yeah, I expect some mistakes. It is a lot of work and it's all written by teenagers. However, these are the first two paragraphs I saw and each of them had 3 or so mistakes. If every paragraph is like that then it's a bit dire. One of the qualities the Content Manager or whoever should look for when they hire staff is the ability to write well.

[Mrs.McCall]

Well yeah hopefully this thread will make SPAG more important. Maybe that can be a trialists sole job for a bit or something? It'd be up to Joe I guess.