I need to figure out a better way to work with editors. They tend to have a process that I'm sure works for normal people: they convert your text file to .doc, then strike through original text and follow it with suggested replacement text. ...and I have an austic breakdown.
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4/ I'm not ranting. OK, not JUST ranting. I'm actually trying to understand what the normal process is, and why folks like it. I MUST be missing something. ...bc norm seems like twitter's passive aggressive moderation policy: we could delete it, but we'd rather force YOU to
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5/ This is good advice! But I don't think that this is a "stupid process". From my (limited) experience, this seems like the NORM. So I'm asking a serious question: how am I SUPPOSED to engage with this? How do NORMAL people engagea with this?https://twitter.com/squidlord/status/1175820920650371073 …
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6/ No, this - and several other comments - are fixing one thing (well, ok, not fixing, just changing), but not addressing the core question: WHAT IS THE PROCESS SUPPOSED TO BE?https://twitter.com/squidlord/status/1175820920650371073 …
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7/ AHA! This is maybe the answer to all of this!https://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/1175821221482631168 …
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8/ Yes,
@mr_archenemy,@JASutherlandBks , and@Emily30Red all put their finger on it, within about 10 seconds of each other. Open Office Edit -> Track Changes -> ... https://twitter.com/Emily30Red/status/1175822029544677377 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
9/ YES! THIS! Just give me a pull request, like God and Linus intended ! https://twitter.com/ShitLordReflex/status/1175822180220751872 …
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10/ OK, I found the "Accept All" button. How much I care about precise word choice: --> | | <--- How much I care about making the pain of interacting with a process go away: | <-------- this much ----------> | He's an editor. He knows editing. I trust him.
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New hobby project: git porcelain for editors.
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Convince them to use CriticMarkup? http://criticmarkup.com/
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It's literally a case of "don't know what you're missing".
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