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RE: Call For Submissions
It should be hard for most of the writers on Steemit or anywhere else for that matter, hence curation. Are you in all seriousness suggesting that SFT should lower their standards because you find them to exclusionary or elitist? Also––as pointed out by @tinypaleokitchen––your use of 'bastardized' justifiably raises quite a few eyebrows in an open writing community. I assure you the curators are well aware of the international nature of this community and as such would not consider a regional spelling of a word a spelling mistake. It's interesting to me that in this single comment you manage to both imply a certain elitism of the SFT curators AND a lack of understanding of how language works.
No I am not suggesting that. It was the wording of the post and the stringent requirements that made it appear that way. Fortunately several individual have responded and corrected my mis-perceptions about what it is SFT is trying to do. I am very aware of people that try to be elitist and that one requirement seemed to me to have been from one of them. No I would never tell someone that they need to do away with their own rules or standards.
I do not see how my comment on the use of 'bastardized' when it came to the spelling of color evoked any of your quote above. I honestly do not understand how it implied Elitism on the part of SFT or its curators. I just really hate how so many people see the word colour and assume that it is spelled wrong. We all have our pet peeves, now you know one of mine.
Because your wording, perhaps unintentionally, made it sound like you assumed the SFT would be judging people who used other English variants unfairly because we required correct spelling. But correct spelling means correct for the variant you use and consistent. Don't spell it color half the time and colour the other half. And it is fiction, so you still might have characters who do NOT use correct grammar and spelling. We can tell the difference. But now you know we don't judge that way, so we'll put it all behind us and move forward happily. In future you might want to ask for clarification before assuming someone would judge against your preferred variant of the language. You might have meant it as a joke. That is not always easy to determine without a context of body language, which would normally be written into fiction but not into this media.