I love all the extras HubPages has added to make managing the hubs easier. One that needs fixing is the "corrections" feature.
Showing spelling errors in visitor comments does not help at all. Please have the programming skip visitor comments in corrections shown. I cannot edit their comments (and likely wouldn't want to).
You only see those corrections when logged in. Visitors will not be able to see those corrections.
They have already made the changes they indicated. If you don't agree with a change, you can deny it by unchecking the box next to it.
I understand that, now. Thanks. But it would be nice to be able to clear the item so it no longer shows up.
As I recall after you open each hub, click on 'show corrections (new) then close the hub, that stuff all goes away. I could be remembering wrong, it's been a long time since I had to deal with any of those.
Actually, HP does indeed fix the comments. They're just letting you know what they did.
The edits do serve a purpose. Google is funny about spelling, even when it comes to the comments, which should be no reflection on your writing, but whatever. They do what they want, regardless. I have actually gone through and deleted comments that were useless, senseless, or unnecessary. It has seemed to have helped a little, or it might be a fluke.
I just discovered a comment on one of my hubs that had the word "penis" in it. No big deal, it'd only been there for three years...
Needless to say, I lined up all my editbots and fired them on the spot.
I don't think so. It appears again and again when we click our own hubs. It will not be visible to viewers, but it is very odd to see the remark popping up again and again at the menubar of any hub.
Comments are considered part of the content of an article. This is why comments violating TOS can get you in trouble. So a badly written comment can affect a Hub, including, as mentioned, in the Google search engine. In other words, yes, Google looks at the content of comments too.
I accept that this is done for Google's sake (the all-powerful ruler the Internet that must be obeyed at all times), but I think it is a shame. There is no useful place for genuine, honest comments that people have gone out of their way to add - unless they are grammatically correct and, if possible, sprinkled with handy SEO phrases.
Personally, if I'm reading comments and reviews, I start to distrust those written in beautiful prose with immaculate punctuation. They must be paid-for contributions, I conclude, and are not, therefore, honest and unbiased. But that is probably just me.
by Audrey Hunt 8 years ago
I find these to be distracting and a waste of time. My time is limited on hub pages and I prefer to use this time reading/writing hubs. Please share your thoughts. Thanks.
by Marina 8 years ago
Happy Thursday, everyone! In August we pre-announced a new tool that fixes common spelling and grammatical errors across the site. Today, Editbot, the first iteration of the tool, is live on a small percentage of Hubs and their comments. It will be gradually rolled out to all Hubs over the next...
by Dr. John Anderson 8 years ago
Use this thread to add suggestions for Editbot. Technical terms and alternate spellings:=> Omelet and Omelette are accepted spellings (UK vs US=> Tendinitis (also tendonitis), meaning inflammation of a tendon BOTH acceptable=> TE/100 g is a scientific term for antioxidant concentration...
by Susannah Birch 13 years ago
Sometimes I come across hubs that are well written but have a glaring grammatical mistake or other error. I usually leave a note along the lines of "---- needs to be fixed up, Feel free to delete this."Just wondering if too many "deleted comments" could ever have a detrimental...
by Sondra Rochelle 8 years ago
Everybody is wondering how the team plans to remove the editbots from the stats pages. Apparently they are there to indicate that edits have been made so that writers can check their articles for correctness, but there are many questions about when and if they will be removed as there seems...
by Peg Cole 6 years ago
This seems to be a recurring issue with editorial corrections. The Editbot wants to replace the word "and" with the word "to." This doesn't work in every case. Here's an example.Someone commented on my hub about emus, "You gave it a try and learned a lesson." The bot...
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