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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1514973" data-attributes="member: 7394">Actually not as bitter as you might think. My work has actually met with reaasonably good reviews more often than not (something that never fails to amaze me). If there is bitterness from me, it comes from all the times that I've bought a product from another publisher, or watched the company that I work for release a new book that I find incredibly useful and well done, only to see someone tear it to shreds online and act personally insulted by it because of a few areas where it doesn't live up to their expectations. First it starts with one or two people who are always being negative, then it spreads to the ones who are glad they were warned about it and decide not to spend their hard earned money on it. Eventually you just get pages and pages of griping while other people who haven't had the chance to even look at it get turned off to it. Certain individuals here make the comic book guy look like a happy fanboy. I'm not saying that products shouldn't be discussed, but I'm saying that a lot of people go way overboard on the negative aspects. I try to look for the good and the useful in all the things I spend my money on and I am rarely disappointed. There's also no system in place to make sure that every review posted is objective and accurate. I've read a number of product reviews by reviewers affiliated with this site that contain blatant inaccuracies and contain personal prejudgements about specific publishers that keep getting regurgitated from one review to the next. There are things I've read that are so inaccurate they can only be explained if the reviewer didn't actually read the product that they are reviewing. Any thought that the reviewer might have actually used the material in the book is right out the window This is completely true, and it always has been. Believe it or not, while my comments have been somewhat negative, they really only apply to a minority of people who are ruining it for everyone else. Noobs have always been treated extremely well here. People who post questions usually get responses, even if the same subject has come up hundreds of times before. The rules discussion forum is worhwhile, if overly nit picky. The publishers forum is also a great way to find out about new products that I might be interested in.  Overall I think ENWorld is a great place, and it is a far better place than other forums that belong to a certain well known RPG company. However, these forums are not very publisher friendly, or writer friendly, and it isn't very friendly to anyone who tries to keep a positive outlook on the creative endeavors of extraordinarily talented individuals who keep pumping out superior quality books only to have their efforts spat on. What's more is that while anyone can pan a product, there isn't really a system in place on these boards, other than other posters, to give another side of the argument. While there are certain people who keep on fighting the good fight, like MerricB, most have gotten tired of trying to buck the trend and just end up going elsewhere.</blockquote>

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