RE: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

> From: Geoff Lane

> I declined to vote because I suspect the author might have phrased it
> carefully to evoke just this sort of "discussion" and, to me, it seems
> a pointless question otherwise.

Here's an ironic twist to the conspiracy theory that the writer of the
question wrote the question in a way to start a discussion.  A web search of
the question will point to this list and techwr-l tends to get the higher
search rankings, so its results appear first and will be ahead of the page
with the poll.  If the poll question was written to draw traffic, then the
discussion may have a less than desirable effect for driving traffic.

Lauren


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