While I admit that I'm more sensitive to grammatical errors than many (marking undergrad essays will do that - though I'm sure that won't save me from making at least one error in this post), I've found a dramatic upswing lately in the number of fics that I have to backbutton out of because the commas, dear god, won't someone please think of the commas. Also, best recent malapropism I've read: blue colour workers. So these are things that having another set of eyes would largely fix.

Have we reached a point following the Just Be Nice kerfuffles where we cannot point out minor errors in reviews etc? Will those days ever come back? I miss people who would tell me when I made a typo; I'm not talking flaming, but wondering whether concrit has been buried by the like/kudos buttons.

And are betas out of style now? Is this another thing brought to us by the immediacy of tumblr - people who write-and-post being more accessible and more prevalent?