alt Hacker NewsWhat's wild is that with a few minutes of manual editing it would give exponential return. For instance, a lead sentence in your section saying "here's why X" that was already described by your subheading is unnecessary and could have been wholly removed.
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therealdrag0 • yesterday at 11:29 PM
That’s pretty presumptive of how obviously the author could improve it. As someone who writes a lot of docs, I find feedback and preferences varies wildly. They may just have well made it “worse” to your preferences by hand editing it more.
gzread • yesterday at 4:40 PM
You'd have to have a good idea of how you want the document to read, which is half (or more) of the process of writing it.
antonvs • yesterday at 5:55 PM
IME many people aren't very capable of editing their own work effectively. It's why "editor" exists as a profession.
Exponential return? This is the front page of HN! What does exponential returns even look like?
Are you saying this post is a few edits away from becoming a New York Times bestseller?