Some People Can Be Mean Without Knowing It! I Can Be Mean, If Needed Be!

I've copy-pasted exchanges between 3 volunteer proofreaders of Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (PGDP): myself (DYEROHM), LASERO, and MEREDITH. I've been doing volunteer proofreading works for Project Gutenberg for over 5 years now, mainly for Tagalog e-books. I was completely taken aback by the message sent to me by "LASERO" who sounded so contemptuous of my skills as a proofreader. He just sounded so mean to me; I only could just react, and reply with harshness myself. The saving grace though came from "MEREDITH" who sent me a message for another e-book project. "MEREDITH" was more specific, and sounded far from being judgmental. Consider reading the exchanges and judge for yourself. Consider also the context behind all these proofreading works the 3 of us are doing: we're all DOING purely volunteer work. We don't actually need to be put down, even for unintentional reasons. I just can't help but be mean to others myself. Whew! (Deal with your anger management issues, yourself!!! LOL)

hi dyerohm,

i am proofing your pages of the above project that you did in p2.

i would like to ask you if you ever read the project comments, or even the proofreading guidelines?

i have never seen such poorly proofed pages in my years here.

i suggest in future that you try to proof only in p1.

thank you.

lasero

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hello,

thanks for the feedback. you simply don't really need to insult me, and pls watch your language, OK? i've never been as insulted as worst as you did...if you have nothing good to say to me just shut your mouth!

dyerohm

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Hey,

I don't know when or if you'll read this, but I think you submitted the wrong file for this book; all that's in it is a text file with the HTML tags and /* */ markers still intact (and looking at your other posted works, you obviously know how to do the text and HTML versions). Although I do notice you uploaded this originally in 2007, so if it's just you were less experienced then, I would recommend taking the book back and reworking it. Also, since you're a PPVer, you don't have to resubmit it to the pool, unless you want others to look it other.

Hope that helps,

Meredith

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hi,

thanks for patiently explaining to me the problems you found (unlike some stupid sounding "lasero" who have that condescending attitude towards me over mistakes i made on another proofreading project---i just wish i can copy furnish him/her this reply, just to emphasize i hate his/her approach me!!!)...i'll work on this project again, and will certainly find time to work on it...

best,

dyerohm

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You're welcome, and I'm glad to see you came back, as I hate seeing projects sit in the PPV queue. Smile I'm sure you know this, but just as a reminder, you can return the project to your PP queue by clicking the button at the bottom of the project page. I'll add that while you're welcome to upload the project to the PPV pool if you want another pair of eyes to look over it, since you have DU access, it's recommended that you include that in the upload notes so that the other PPVers will know that you're not a newbie PPer.

Hope that helps,

Meredith

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