NataliaShevchuk wrote:
It seems to be an absolute axiom that all participants submitting entries should have bothered to prepare their texts in a "minimally professional" manner, i. e. have them proofread, edited, checked etc. The peers are entitled to evaluate the entries free of typos, elementary errors and inconsistencies, aren't they?.. If a person fearlessly submits something looking like a machine-translated crap, just because he/she has an option to stay anonymous, - what respect we are talking about? Therefore, I'd suggest eliminating the option of unticking the box "Show my name with my entry after voting closes, even if I do not win". Such practice encourages people to participate in contest just on a "hit-or-miss" basis. When it's over, all masks should be taken off.
But we are precisely talking about pieces that we checked before submission and still got ridiculous comments. How do you feel if you checked and checked your pieces and then someone came along and said your text didn’t make sense because the person who commented on your entry just highlighted some random section of your text, starting from the middle of a random word and ending at the middle of a random word?
Yes, you read it correctly. Some of these random comments don’t even start at the middle of a random sentence; they just randomly choose a word, cut it in half at a random place, and call it an error.