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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maldin" data-source="post: 4767298" data-attributes="member: 27170">Many thanks for following up on this, Scott. We may not always agree, but we certainly do appreciate your efforts to help and provide some transparency. I must say that you've been a PR boon for the company. I've seen many a thread on the boards that could have turned south quite quickly if you hadn't been around to provide information, ease fears, offer glimpses of the future, etc. Of course, there is no saving some threads. On this topic, I would like to second all the points that Shemeska made. I think things could be handled a lot better, as it really does make the situation look bad. As you said yourself, the guidelines clearly need to be updated, but out of all those hundreds of submissions (thousands in total, if Chris' numbers are accurate, since Dragon and Dungeon left Paizo and went digital) I would have expected to have heard something from someone on some board somewhere about some sort of positive or negative submission response, as Shemy pointed out. I find it difficult to believe that there isn't something beyond the 3 listed reasons going on. With so many already published amateurs (i.e. proven capable, knowledgeable, creative, and eloquent fans) saying that they've sent in multiple submissions, you'd expect at least some of the scatter-shot would have fallen within the target zone. The silence from that division (and its real or imagined track record of authors) really is alienating folks, and sending their creative juices elsewhere (or just stifling them).Denis, aka "Maldin"Maldin's Greyhawk <a href="http://melkot.com" target="_blank">http://melkot.com</a>Drop by if you have the time! <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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