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Well that was a waste of time.

The site presents a phrase (mine was scraped from a blog post), and after several clicks asks you to rewrite it more concisely while retaining certain important words.

I thought they might take my response, give it to the next visitor to improve, and show me the result. Or let us vote on the best one. Instead they just reward you with a pre-canned answer, which, frankly, was less interesting than the one I composed.

Couldn't help feeling it's a veiled pitch to sell their $100 "Learn add-on".

You'd have as much fun rewriting this comment in less than 100 words.




>> “Waste of time, it’s a sales pitch.”

Obviously might be improved, but based on the posters responses to (constructive) feedback and having used it, game does not strike me as a bait and switch sales pitch.


That's fair. Sorry if I came across too harsh... it's how I felt after the test drive.




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