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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FDP Mike" data-source="post: 1133954" data-attributes="member: 325">Let's Get Back on Track, EhEr, Alan, you're being a bit foolish (in the etymological sense of the word).I've seen you get on this hobby horse before; you really do no one any good, and you serve only to hamper your efforts by convincing people to tune you out because of your attitude and approach.I think that you've actually stopped reading ichabod's posts. Now, you're just pressing home a point that was long ago past pressing home any further. Look at ichabod's posts carefully: they're quite well written, if not also rather diplomatic and measured.This place really is not the forum to "grade" people and threaten them with unnecessary constant vigilance about their writing.--------------------That written, back to the topic at hand ....According to the result's of the poll so far, 91.86% of voters feel that a well edited product is important to them. What I'm curious about is how much folks think this feeling represents d20/RPG consumers as a whole. I know that many people grumble about editing quality, but do purchasing trends in the industry support the notion that consumers in fact speak with their wallets and not buy poorly edited products?My sense is that most people are willing to overlook certain issues of substandard editing for the "cool" factor or the "I must have that book!" factor. Perhaps only a minority of consumers who care strongly enough about textual cleanliness actually take a dedicated stance in not buying poor quality products, able to control the "cool" and "must have" urges ... to an extent. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'm willing to submit that just a very few publishers feel the bite of their inattentiveness to editing, and that primarily so because word gets out and stays out -- i.e., the publisher develops a bad reputation that sticks. I'm also willing to submit that some publishers avoid such a bad reputation because they find ways to appeal to the "cool" and "must have" urges that distract from or gloss over a generally low-level concern for good, even professional editing. These points are not submitted lightly, as I see such situations played out often here on ENWorld in terms of how people react to certain publishers and their products, creating a disconnect between the praise for and the actual quality of a product.Okay, discuss!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Take care,Mike</blockquote>

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