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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7278456" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>Regardless, it's people you're calling lazy, not work. If you're calling people lazy, that's insulting, even if true.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Pretty sure Sacrosanct has made it clear they don't believe this at all. They said it explicitly in an earlier post. Sacrosanct isn't saying people can't criticize, he's pointing that the kind of criticism that involves assuming the work is easy and something the criticizer could easily accomplish is armchair quarterbacking. </p><p></p><p>The error was a mistake and regretable. Noting it isn't bad, or something Sacrosanct is saying you shouldn't do or can't do if you haven't done it. His point is assuming the job is easy when you have no experience with it. (And it's not easy, I've had to do it for national publications of technical material, and I never, not once, turned in an error free draft. We had four review cycles with different review teams - the initial by the drafter, the drafting team, the editing team, and then the final acceptance review team. None of our documents ever made it through the final acceptance review without finding at least one error, and we had a professional editing team. It's not trivial work, and mistakes happen.) Noting them isn't bad, but claiming it's lazy editing (which can exist, but isn't characterized by very small number of errors in Xanthar's) exposes ignorance on the part of the complainer.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ironically, this is a strawman. <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then it would be trivial for you to provide a counterexample that disproves him. He noted than, and said that if someone did so, he'd recant. Instead of attacking the statement as impossible, maybe you could take up his offer and prove him wrong?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7278456, member: 16814"] Regardless, it's people you're calling lazy, not work. If you're calling people lazy, that's insulting, even if true. Pretty sure Sacrosanct has made it clear they don't believe this at all. They said it explicitly in an earlier post. Sacrosanct isn't saying people can't criticize, he's pointing that the kind of criticism that involves assuming the work is easy and something the criticizer could easily accomplish is armchair quarterbacking. The error was a mistake and regretable. Noting it isn't bad, or something Sacrosanct is saying you shouldn't do or can't do if you haven't done it. His point is assuming the job is easy when you have no experience with it. (And it's not easy, I've had to do it for national publications of technical material, and I never, not once, turned in an error free draft. We had four review cycles with different review teams - the initial by the drafter, the drafting team, the editing team, and then the final acceptance review team. None of our documents ever made it through the final acceptance review without finding at least one error, and we had a professional editing team. It's not trivial work, and mistakes happen.) Noting them isn't bad, but claiming it's lazy editing (which can exist, but isn't characterized by very small number of errors in Xanthar's) exposes ignorance on the part of the complainer. Ironically, this is a strawman. :) Then it would be trivial for you to provide a counterexample that disproves him. He noted than, and said that if someone did so, he'd recant. Instead of attacking the statement as impossible, maybe you could take up his offer and prove him wrong? [/QUOTE]
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