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Re: Show HN: textlaundry.com

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I was just wondering who were the "professional" editors. Some credentials might increase the trust in your service.

This exactly. Why the anonymity with web service vendors? I was looking at fiabee.com the other day and "About Us" and "Contact" give the impression that the business owners have something to hide. Even the blog is written "by admin". Why not use the name listed on the domain registry that anyone can look up? Doesn't inspire confidence.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is just a cobbled together CMS front-end with clip art icons and generic photos for what appears to be a proof-reading service, am I correct? Or am I missing some sort of technological breakthrough?

yes, it seems to be a service for proof reading. what's your point?

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post #5

I was just wondering who were the "professional" editors. Some credentials might increase the trust in your service.

I agree completely. Is this service farmed out to Mechanical Turk with the supposition that more eye is equal to higher quality? Or do you legitimately have qualified individuals reviewing these submissions?

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post #14
post #5

I was just wondering who were the "professional" editors. Some credentials might increase the trust in your service.

I agree completely. Is this service farmed out to Mechanical Turk with the supposition that more eye is equal to higher quality? Or do you legitimately have qualified individuals reviewing these submissions?

I agree. A turk-based proofreading system might not be a bad idea- a few layers of suggestion verification and you could get a pretty good first-pass proofreading out of it. However, the lack of transparency makes this more than a little shady.

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Dividing by quality "Good, Great, and Excellent" is weird to me. What metric distinguishes the different options? If I only check "Good," will you edit my text while watching television instead of devoting your full attention to it?

I would get rid of the quality gradient altogether, instead ensuring your users that all of your work is "excellent." If you still want an extra tier to your pricing, I guess you could do what translation services do and charge per revision or by number of people the text passes through, but the idea that you simply aren't trying as hard if I check "good" doesn't sit well.

Re: Show HN: textlaundry.com

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Is the Terms & Conditions page just copy/pasted from elsewhere?

If not, things like the following are very concerning:

  > Advertisements. textLaundry reserves the right to display advertisements on your blog unless you have purchased an Ad-free Upgrade or a VIP Services account.
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