Show HN: Proofville, A Competitive Editing Game – Crowdsource Your Proofreading

Re:Show HN: Proofville, A Competitive Editing Game – Crowdso... by ivan_ah on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:59PM (#6908437)

This is very interesting. Proofreading as a service could be used by so many content companies out there.

I guess for something long like a book it would make more sense to have the same person proofread the entire thing, but for blog posts and other text, parallelism could be very powerful.

I'm not sure how the pricing will work out though:

   $0.004/w  = $1.4/page = $350 for my book

this is 1/6 of what I paid to my copy editor. Who will work for such a low wage?

Last but not least, does it all have to be through-the-web. I find I catch a lot more mistakes on paper.

Either way, I wish you good luck with your business and I will be following the developments closely.

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Re:Show HN: Proofville, A Competitive Editing Game – Crowdso... by lsb on Sunday December 15, 2013 @12:05AM (#6908446)

Sometimes copyeditors fix really subtle problems, sometimes copyeditors fix really obvious problems.

This should help fix the obvious problems, and make their time better-spent!

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Re:Show HN: Proofville, A Competitive Editing Game – Crowdso... by lmeyerov on Sunday December 15, 2013 @12:14AM (#6908471)

Right, looking at crowdsourcing (the main proofist site) was born out of my frustration that most copyediting comments are for simple mistakes that anyone could have caught. I want to make ours cheap enough that you can get 10-20 pairs of eyes per piece of text and without the usual wait.

This game is an experiment to make it free, and if we get mass, can get the desired level of matching. (In just one hour, we're already a hit with educators in math/science!)

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