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Originally Posted by HarryT
I was thinking more of cases where a standard could be used to reject books where the author clearly didn't have a clue, rather than disagreements about grammatical minutiae. Eg, look at posts on MR. I would estimate that at least a quarter of the posters here use "its" and "it's" incorrectly, and one might have thought that MR would attract the type of reader who had an above-average exposure to written material!
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Well, that would be easy, but that wouldn't result in a shiny badge for everyone to put on their book, which is what I thought the OP was looking for.
Well, unless the shiny badge just meant "passes a bare minimum". But usually -- not always -- you can tell that from the sample, in my experience.