EditMob is not a stickler.  I very rarely receive a submission for an arcane rule of grammar (though I am not opposed to it).  One of the more interesting aspects of monitoring your submissions is the quality (and quantity) of the reports.  Less than 5% of the reports are rejected.  I would attribute nearly all of those to style decisions by the author and a few to British/Canadian spelling.

I was reading a blog entry by Carol Saller (who I just realized is the editor for the Chicago Manual of Style online forum) and then engaged her in a quick email exchange.  As most people point out, she noted that EditMob is a great outlet for those of you who want to do good; but she also rejected that EditMob is a stickler.  Whew.

I often get comments from authors that feel all their readers should be focused on the content, rather than typos.  To them I respond, yes but ... don't you want the cleanest read for everyone else.

Those that agree sign up.  Thanks.

-dave

The presentation below by B.J. Fogg of Stanford University ranks how typos affect credibility.  It also shows that over the course of the study, typos became more deleterious AND that typos scored worse that pop-up ads (boy I hate those).  Two slides (24 and 31) comment directly on the negative aspects of typos.