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<blockquote data-quote="JRich" data-source="post: 9183941" data-attributes="member: 7043485">I grant that you closed your opening post with the encouraging words, &quot;You can do it.&nbsp; I believe in you.&quot; However, prior to that sentence, your post included a statement that you find it &quot;frustrating&quot; when people say that they don't like something from a publisher.&nbsp; I think that sentence could be seen as being dismissive of the reasonable complaints of people who (for whatever reason) choose not to create something themselves and who also express frustration when what the publisher provides is of poor quality. To go back to my cooking analogy, for various reasons, I am not interested in doing a lot of high-end, gourmet cooking.&nbsp; I don't think a lot of people would be frustrated with me if I expressed disappointment, dissatisfaction, annoyance, etc. if a meal at a 5-star restaurant I paid lots of money for was of extremely poor quality.&nbsp; I would also feel like someone was being at least slightly dismissive of me if, after I expressed my dissatisfaction, annoyance, etc., someone said something to the effect of, &quot;It's so frustrating that you are complaining about that meal because you know you can cook yourself a meal.&quot;Just because I can do it myself does not mean that I cannot reasonably expect quality when I choose to pay someone else to do it for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JRich, post: 9183941, member: 7043485"] I grant that you closed your opening post with the encouraging words, "You can do it. I believe in you." However, prior to that sentence, your post included a statement that you find it "frustrating" when people say that they don't like something from a publisher. I think that sentence could be seen as being dismissive of the reasonable complaints of people who (for whatever reason) choose not to create something themselves and who also express frustration when what the publisher provides is of poor quality. To go back to my cooking analogy, for various reasons, I am not interested in doing a lot of high-end, gourmet cooking. I don't think a lot of people would be frustrated with me if I expressed disappointment, dissatisfaction, annoyance, etc. if a meal at a 5-star restaurant I paid lots of money for was of extremely poor quality. I would also feel like someone was being at least slightly dismissive of me if, after I expressed my dissatisfaction, annoyance, etc., someone said something to the effect of, "It's so frustrating that you are complaining about that meal because you know you can cook yourself a meal." Just because I can do it myself does not mean that I cannot reasonably expect quality when I choose to pay someone else to do it for me. [/QUOTE]

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