I use Grammarly all the time, I even have a premium account. Yeah, 98% of what Grammarly catches I would catch myself in a careful proofread, but its automatic highlighting is what saves me tons of time.
Having said that, Grammarly can’t be/is not used sometimes because:
– it’s potentially sending what you write to their servers. Depending on the sensitivity of what you do, who you work for that may be a no-no
– while the browser add-in works great on sites like Reddit, it may not play nicely with heavily scripted web apps like a lot of content management and publishing services are… a lot of whom already have their own grammar and spellchecking.
– sometimes you don’t care.
– nowadays a lot of social media “reporting” is done from a mobile device – those articles are being submitted from a phone or a tablet. So if Grammarly doesn’t support those devices yet (they just announced iPad support) or the browser plugin doesn’t work on mobile browsers or it doesn’t play nicely with the app that does the content management… I can see why its not used.
Much of the article scraping is done automatically and there is no user review process.
Some of those sites have a staff of less than a dozen people.
The primary purpose of the site is to get clicks and show ads, the quality of the articles apparently is not important enough to justify the expense or they would.
Also if the scraping is a redirecting article bring displayed in their site, they can not edit the original.
Some people just aren’t detail-oriented. Some people prioritize speed over accuracy. Some people are paid to do things quickly, not with perfection. Some bosses don’t check their employees’ work to ensure it’s at a specific standard. Like every other line of work, people who are extremely good at it are actually hard to find.
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