Angle Finders for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMXCVII

In the bad old days of content farms, certain freelancers decided that the quickest way to amass a fortune in so-called "passive income" was to write reviews of expensive items. Whether it was vacuum cleaners or SLR cameras, every product had its self-declared "expert," often someone whose expertise extended just about as far as having browsed the reviews at Amazon. Wissley.com had one such fake reviewer who specialized in tools; a guy who called himself Tested-to-Destruction. We've seen his particular brand of rubbish before, and we were heartily unimpressed. That's why we took another look at his catalog and plucked out a likely candidate: "Angle Finder Reviews."

It was pretty obvious from the get-go that T2D had suffered a lapse in quality control, given that his first statement in the post opened with,

"An angle grinder is a great tool and used for determining angles..."

No, d00d, that's not what an angle grinder does. Come to think of it, most of the rest of what you said was a little suspect as well, including such boilerplate as,

"They're often founds [sic] in a plumbers [sic] tool bag, as a means of ascertaining an angle before installing new pipe systems..."

or the rather bizarre claim that an angle finder is,

"Similar to a stud finder..."

...a claim that is bogus in both the functional and operational senses. Of course, T2D needed to pretend he'd used all of the models he was "reviewing,"¹ so he harvested some examples of how others had used them, examples such as,

"...using... a digital angle finder, [sic] as a means of ensuring that they've worked out an angle before they go ahead and pour a concrete driveway."

We don't even know WTF that's all about – you wouldn't use an angle finder to check the slope of a driveway! After that bogosity, T2D regaled us about angle grinders yet again:

"The five best angle grinder are featured below."

Well, actually, the five most popular angle finders at Amazon when he wrote his crap are "featured below," with pseudo-useful comments included. We're talking random observations like,

• "It's [sic] user friendly design means there's a lot less fiddling around when trying to determine an angle and the results are accurate time and again."
• "It works using small increments between 0 and 90 degrees, over a range of four quadrants. "
• "The LCD display is locate [sic] on the joint of the protractor and it's large enough and simple enough to read. "
• "Besides accurately measuring angles it will also perform as a level, stand along protractor [sic] and calculator for cutting."
• "It measure between 0 and 360 degrees so there's lots of use for not a lot of money."
• "...it measures in small increasing increments of 0.05 - which is spot on all round "

Careful reading of those and similar statements reveal that Tested-to-Destruction has never used these (or probably any) angle finder, and that he didn't understand what he was talking about anyway. Is it any wonder that every time we look at something written by this yutz that we have to dust off yet another Dumbass of the Day award? Of course not!

¹ A process that entailed culling statements from Amazon reviews of the five most popular angle finders.

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