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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1819658" data-attributes="member: 5">Read, again, what I posted.  You have missed my point.  There's a difference between saying that you do not *like* a style, perfectly fine IMO, and saying that you think a style is not valid, which is what I was commenting on.  There's a difference between going to a restaurant and telling them their menu should be restricted to what you intend to order, and simply saying you don't like a restaurant.  I think the former is wrong, and as far as the latter, I'd recommend finding a different restaurant.Why did you put the word "problem" in quotation marks?If errors exist and his style is to point them out, then he has done fine.  If that is not a style that suits your needs, you should be reading another reviewer.That's a matter of opinion that not everyone shares.  As with the person who likes to apply templates, advance creatures, etc., they can be very important.  It's the difference between buying something where someone has actually properly done the work they claimed they were going to do, and buying something that has been improperly done and having to redo, or at least recheck, all of that work because one even have to check the correct entries to ensure they are correct when a product appears to be riddled with errors.The real point of the whole thing here seems to be that if the predominant company in the industry says that they are putting out a product, you expect that product to be about as properly edited as any product ever sold.  Somehow the focus being shifted from WotC's responsibility to get it right, to a reviewer's validity in pointing out when WotC gets it wrong.Aren't you leaving out that it is also his stance that there are more errors in this book than the others and that his style is to judge books a great deal based on editing?If that was the only error mentioned, and the only one in the whole book, I could certainly understand that view point.  But to act as if that is the only editing error by offhandedly mentioning it as unimportant and to act as if that is the fault of the reviewing style, seems to be missing the point.   Again, if that is not a style of reviewing that suits your needs, you should be reading another reviewer.  Do you go to a movie that is a drama and then complain that it wasn't a comedy?Some people like Cooper's style of reviewing and since he's just about the only one who does it in that manner, and since there are many, many reviewers out there reviewing products, it really shouldn't be a problem for people who don't prefer his style to find another reviewer to read.</blockquote>

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