Giant Bomb and OCD...
By WerePaladin 3 Comments
Hello and welcome to one and all (who might be reading this). I hope your day has gone well so far. :)
In my continuing adventures around the wide world of Giant Bomb, I have now discovered the joys of editing Wiki pages. Sure, the concept of the Wiki is the idea on which this entire site is structured - but I hadn't given it a whole lot of thought until recently. Since I signed up, I have simply been content to surf through the pages, looking up information on games that interest me, and generally having a chuckle at some of the content presented on the site.
Then one day, not so long ago, I noticed that a page I was looking at had some typos. It was at this point that the anal-retentive within surged forward and compelled me to correct the error. It was just one page (Water, I think) and it was a very small mistake, but I made my submission and it was accepted. Wow. I made a change to something, and it stuck!
So a couple of days later, while I was continuing to work on some of my Quests, I spotted a spelling mistake, and so I fixed that as well. As it happens, proof-reading documents was something I did quite a bit of at my previous workplace, so I was kinda already conditioned to look for spelling mistakes, typographical errors and general issues with the language or grammar of a document. So as I've been looking through the site, I've been making tiny adjustments here and there. None of them are significantly huge (for the most part), and none of them are earning me squillions of Wiki points, but I still have the satisfaction of knowing that in my own small way I am making Giant Bomb a better website.
That's all I wanted to say. Nothing whinge-y about bad Doctor Who episodes or comments about games I'm playing today. Nothing that needs to go in any of the Forums or anything like that. Just a lil' muttering into the void of my own blog. Nothing more to see here, move along... *grin*