Do spelling and grammar count for anything?
Yes. In its overview of Review Writing Standards the review submission form includes “Write clearly with accurate grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation.” While the rules for spelling and grammar are rather lax in email and on bulletin boards, the Epinions community has generally held member sumbissions to a higher standard. Many members will thus downrate for submissions that are made difficult to read because of abundant spelling and grammatical errors or formatting problems. Most members agree that the standards tend to be more stringent in the “literary” categories, notably Books and Movies; while those who hang out in Games are less likely to concern themselves with stylistic convention.
