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<blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1471996" data-attributes="member: 6398">Actually, I don't think about knowledge of the publishing industry or the lack there-of, but is actually more psychological.&nbsp; See, when folks first see the article and go, &quot;what the..!&quot;, it's the author's name that is immediately targeted for any negative opinions.&nbsp; Later, when they find out that the author had originally held closer to the original setting and that it was somebody else that made the changes, they are prone to feel a little guilty about being upset with the author (even if they are not aware of it).&nbsp;This is why it seems to be &quot;morally offensive&quot; to people that accreditation for the article wasn't made to reflect who did what and why; they (which includes me, I will admit) would rather have not incorrectly targeted their expression of displeasure at the author and now, knowing more of the details driving the changes, rightly blame Paizo for not indicating in some manner what was changed, why it was changed, and by whom.&nbsp;Or, consider it this way: Those whom have yet to see David Noonan's letter or the earlier post made by our friendly neighborhood Paizo representative still consider David Noonon the &quot;culprit&quot;.&nbsp; I wouldn't be surprised if 6 months from now we still get the occassional comment from somebody condemning DN for &quot;what he did&quot; and we (those participating in this thread and those just reading it) will have to inform them of the actual details of the situation.&nbsp; When that happens, $10 (US) says that they'll then immediately direct some resentment towards Piazo for this very reason (and likely more so, having 6 months of misdirected displeasure to vent).&nbsp;It's human nature, dude, although I'm not sure if that deserves a <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> or a :\ .&nbsp; Possibly a <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bendris Noulg, post: 1471996, member: 6398"] Actually, I don't think about knowledge of the publishing industry or the lack there-of, but is actually more psychological. See, when folks first see the article and go, "what the..!", it's the author's name that is immediately targeted for any negative opinions. Later, when they find out that the author had originally held closer to the original setting and that it was somebody else that made the changes, they are prone to feel a little guilty about being upset with the author (even if they are not aware of it). This is why it seems to be "morally offensive" to people that accreditation for the article wasn't made to reflect who did what and why; they (which includes me, I will admit) would rather have not incorrectly targeted their expression of displeasure at the author and now, knowing more of the details driving the changes, rightly blame Paizo for not indicating [i]in some manner[/i] what was changed, why it was changed, and by whom. Or, consider it this way: Those whom have yet to see David Noonan's letter or the earlier post made by our friendly neighborhood Paizo representative still consider David Noonon the "culprit". I wouldn't be surprised if 6 months from now we still get the occassional comment from somebody condemning DN for "what he did" and we (those participating in this thread and those just reading it) will have to inform them of the actual details of the situation. When that happens, $10 (US) says that they'll then immediately direct some resentment towards Piazo for this very reason (and likely more so, having 6 months of misdirected displeasure to vent). It's human nature, dude, although I'm not sure if that deserves a :) or a :\ . Possibly a :uhoh: . [/QUOTE]

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