Polish is for desks, right?

People sitting at desks using typewriters in Norway. 1940s Introduction I’ve been a bit of a debate regarding the content of web posts. Dave Melor advocates for highly polished pieces of writing in Polish Your Postings, Please1. Joel Chrono, on the other hand, advocates for unpolished writing in Unpolished human websites2. Candy3falls squarely on Joel’s side, and has a few comments that fall in line with my thinking as well. I’ll address those comments in a little bit. (And I’m now annoyed to see that Gordon stole the “original” title for my post: To polish or not to polish4, now I have to come up with a new title. Sheesh!5 ) The interesting part of this discussion is I am the person who pushed for the Indieweb to up our game a few months back with my article Guys, we really, really suck at this!6 along with several follow-up articles. But, what I was advocating for was more in the functionality of our sites, and not really about the content of our sites. Now, having spent a month…