Great writing should come back nearly clean

[suchow]

It would be good to include an automated test sweet that runs the linter over writing that is written by a great author and has already been heavily edited and copyedited (e.g., an essay from The New Yorker that went on to win the Pulitzer prize in nonfiction) . The linter should be nearly silent.

[suchow]

I mention this because the defaults of tools like write-good are extremely noisy, false alarming on many words and phrases (e.g., banning the word "only", which is sometimes used improperly, but is often part of a sentence's essential logical structure).

[suchow]

The idea is really just that you shouldn't introduce a new rule that alone finds tens or hundreds of errors in top-notch writing. That would be surprising and would suggest that your rule was too noisy. We'll have to figure out the right metric to use here --- how we tell if a rule is too noisy. Maybe we can create a metric like words per error (wpe) and set a threshold for top-notch text and normal text.

[mpacer]

why did you close this I think its a good point?

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[suchow]

It's fixed! The test suite runs the linter on all the samples in tests/samples, and if any of the checks gives a ton of errors for any of the samples, the test fails.