I'm not a "resolution for the new year" kind of person, but rather tend toward continual improvement.

For 2012, however, I'm making one resolution:

I won't spend any of my time grousing about the bad writing I see every day in blog posts by writers who should know better. (I think they do know better. See number 2 below.) No more attempts to enlighten or correct. No more.

I will simply form an opinion of your work that will include all or some of the following:

1. You are sloppy
2. You don't care
3. You were educated poorly and haven't tried to improve on that
4. You think, "It's not my job." "It doesn't matter." (See number 2)
5. You don't think of your readers as customers
6. You don't think of your own content as valuable*

Please note: I am not talking about people whose native language is not English, and who struggle with one of the most difficult languages that exists. I'm also not talking about Twitter. Goodness knows it's hard enough to dash off a 140 character message. I am mostly talking about people who, oh well, see number 2.

The other thing I won't do is try to keep struggling through malformed sentences, misused words, undefined acronyms and convoluted jargon.

I will just stop reading and move on.

The praises of those who do care enough to stop and read through their work (or, better yet, ask a friend to read through it) will be sung from the rooftops.

*Why, in heaven's name, should I?