POLL: Your best "skill" (for the copy editors/page designers/paginators)

He could be arguing in his spare time.

 

You're sort of right. I actually tried that excuse for the first while I was at the Sun -- and got serious shit because of it.
When you have a four or five-man desk, you have to look at every page as a team project.
Yeah, someone might write the most brilliant headline of the year or come up with a pretty design. But someone also stones the page.
If every person who touches that page isn't pulling his weight, mistakes will get through.

 

Dye will be happy. Page design leads the poll with 6.

 

Dye, which one was your vote?

 

I voted for "slot."

It's good to see such high priorities for catching mistakes, etc. I'm sure readers would be happy to know they buy editions made by people who don't emphasize those things.

 

I voted for Reece's Peanut Butter Cup.

 

Of my desking skills, stoning pages is my skill, Dye. So I did vote for catching mistakes. I'm not perfect but the boss tells me I'm the best he has at it. I hate reading anything that has typos/mistakes in it. I stop reading if I come across one ...

 

DyePack's got a girlfriend! ;D

 

I don't think he's my type.

 

Show us your dangling participles!

 

Erg, it's the misplaced modifiers that drive me nuts.

 

I can't diagram a sentence to save my life, but I always seem to be able to pick up the small things on a page. That's why I voted for proofing/copy editing.

I do feel I'm becoming a tad more proficient at the making-an-attractive page thing.