What makes me a rage this week is soyboys who try to call you out when thousands of people are listening to them, but they can’t quite explain why they’re calling you out.
For you non-Patreonis, I was called out during episode 101 for my transcripts, but the guy requested that his bits were removed from the final edit. Here is a breakdown of some of the arguments and statements:
“These recent ones are bad, there’s a lot of errors.”
The only “recent one” that’s bad was episode 98, and that’s because the wrong file was uploaded. I’m not going to throw anyone under the bus for this, but in 98 we changed the workflow for these a bit. If that guy were to have contacted me (via Reddit, in the link I provide in every transcript) or Dick about this, the issue could have been solved in MINUTES, but he decided to wait a week or two to tell anyone.
“I’m pretty sure Sean didn’t call him “Lakemba.””
In a weekly transcript for an almost 3-hour show, you’re bound to have some typos. For reference, episode 96 has 12463 words*. A few minor typos here and there shouldn’t hurt the show’s context, but if he felt like they did, I could have been contacted about this. THAT’S WHY I PROVIDE THE FUCKING LINK!
“Google is indexing all this shit that you did not actually say…”
The only time I add shit he doesn’t say is when I replace laughing with “hehehe.” I have doubts about this harming anyone.
“You can only make one or two mistakes, and they have to be very minor.”
*12463 words, less than 2 mistakes. 0.01% error, weekly, on a 12-18 hour job. These standards are great to strive for, but are unrealistic to achieve, especially when you consider a spelling error to be a huge enough issue to complain about.
“Are you paying him to do that?”
Funny that he mentioned that. I volunteered to do these at a flat rate, one that’s lower than the rate others charge to transcribe a single speaker. I enjoy contributing, that’s why I do these for as close to free as you can get. Not only do I do it for less, but you don’t get garbage like Sean talking to himself for 2 hours, something that happened when Dick tried to hire some business to do this.
“Almost as bad as Laurie Foster’s transcripts”
Thanks, I guess. It’s not like I was specifically told to model these after anything.
If you're going to call someone out pubicly, maybe don't do that as your first resort.