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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #660 on: June 02, 2020, 07:57:45 PM »
Now that I found this thread I don't have to leave it in the comments anymore

I now see the quote from @jj1000 in the wiki.

Is this better for mistakes or the comments section on DDMS?
120 characters? Hmm, I wonder what I could write with 64 characters. Boy, it's gonna be hard to use up 15 characters. W-

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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #661 on: June 02, 2020, 08:04:07 PM »
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #662 on: June 02, 2020, 08:05:50 PM »
Thanks guys!

I now see the quote from @jj1000 in the wiki.

Is this better for mistakes or the comments section on DDMS?
Pre-publication belongs here. Post publication can be via comments.
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #663 on: June 02, 2020, 08:06:44 PM »
And sure enough, the chickens are coming home to roost for the farmers. A grand jury has indicted 2 men that operated one of these credit card farms for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

It says wire fraud twice at the end of this paragraph.
It's 2 different charges. Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #664 on: June 02, 2020, 08:10:44 PM »
It's 2 different charges. Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud
It's hard to tell from the sentence. How about a colon after "for"?
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #665 on: June 02, 2020, 08:15:43 PM »
And sure enough, the chickens are coming home to roost for the farmers. A grand jury has indicted 2 men that operated one of these credit card farms for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

It says wire fraud twice at the end of this paragraph.

i just glanced at the indictment and realized that conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud are 2 separate counts :)
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #666 on: June 02, 2020, 08:17:32 PM »
It's 2 different charges. Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud

i like the edit, it's much clearer now
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #667 on: June 02, 2020, 08:20:30 PM »
At any rate, they kept using fake spending as they figured they would get the points faster than AMEX could claw them back.

could or would?
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #668 on: June 02, 2020, 08:36:19 PM »
Very well written. Can I make the first comment?
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #669 on: June 02, 2020, 09:03:31 PM »
Very well written. Can I make the first comment?
now you can ;)
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #670 on: June 02, 2020, 09:09:44 PM »
Very well written. Can I make the first comment?
missed your chance, unless you happen to be a very grumpy Sam
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #671 on: June 02, 2020, 09:13:03 PM »
Thoughts on going forward with a post like this?
More good than harm!

Any proofreaders around?

https://www.dansdeals.com/credit-cards/chickens-come-home-roost-credit-card-farmers-indicted-fraudulently-obtaining-790000000-amex-points/
Didn't see any mistakes. Great post!
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #672 on: June 02, 2020, 09:16:28 PM »
120 characters? Hmm, I wonder what I could write with 64 characters. Boy, it's gonna be hard to use up 15 characters. W-

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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #673 on: June 02, 2020, 10:43:18 PM »
Thoughts on going forward with a post like this?
More good than harm or more harm than good?

Any proofreaders around?

https://www.dansdeals.com/credit-cards/chickens-come-home-roost-credit-card-farmers-indicted-fraudulently-obtaining-790000000-amex-points/

@Dan, BTW I got a DDMS sms notification for this AT 9:14pm (Eastern Time) today. Not sure if it was a fluke or what
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #674 on: June 02, 2020, 10:44:21 PM »
@Dan, BTW I got a DDMS sms notification for this AT 9:14pm (Eastern Time) today. Not sure if it was a fluke or what
Because it was "posted" so people could proof it. With a fake date in the past so it's not at the top of DDMS
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #675 on: June 02, 2020, 10:49:13 PM »
@Dan, BTW I got a DDMS sms notification for this AT 9:14pm (Eastern Time) today. Not sure if it was a fluke or what
Because it was "posted" so people could proof it. With a fake date in the past so it's not at the top of DDMS
Was wondering same thing when I got telegram... That's actually genius!
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #677 on: June 21, 2020, 12:15:25 PM »
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/uniteds-creative-mileageplus-accounting-gets-5-billion-loan-also-gets-us-fun-look-program/

Any proofreaders around?
Anything else interesting that I missed?
"Maybe United wants to roll back the devaluations several years as it doesn’t seem to have made MPH more profitable anyway…" Not a mistake per se just wishful thinking i'd think, no?
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #678 on: June 21, 2020, 12:20:07 PM »
Looks clear to me.
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Re: Proofread DDMS Posts In Advance...
« Reply #679 on: June 21, 2020, 12:22:45 PM »
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/uniteds-creative-mileageplus-accounting-gets-5-billion-loan-also-gets-us-fun-look-program/

Any proofreaders around?
Anything else interesting that I missed?
My first thought is that the title is perhaps too intricate. Maybe consider a more catchy title, like "United Finally Gives Us a Glimpse into their Mileageplus Program", and turn the current title into the opening paragraph?