[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[Charlotte Webb]

On 9/7/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> Most people are, by definition, average readers, and so I think
> they literally can't tell the difference between a mediocre article
> and a great one.

Definitely. Somebody could show me their "prose" and I'll probably say
"looks better than anything I could write", then give some
characteristically bad advice and count how many of the FA people
insist that it thoroughly sucks.

—C.W.