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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5715331" data-attributes="member: 54877">Well, note in that model that there is implicitly a sizable gap between dregs and the best stuff.  It's the stuff in the middle that is the problem space, not the dregs.  The dregs are things like broken feats that have been superseded by something better.  Sure, there may be that tiny minority that thought the old feat was better, but statistically, they lost that argument. However, mainly what decides is usage over time.  Time is critical for this model to work very well, in several ways.  Eventually, electronic things run the risk of going away, if only no longer being officially supported.  (I'm aware of various ways around this, but they are all more involved than having a "book"--either printed and/or in some static electronic format.)   Consider the history of Victorian England newspaper debates.  There was serious and sustained "conversations" over the course of the whole era, by people from many perspectives.  We know, because a lot of them were put into books in one form or another.  There was a lot of drek that never saw print again.  And there was stuff in the middle, some that got saved and some that didn't.  There were probably a few gems that were overlooked and/or misunderstood because of the tenor of the era.  Some drek got saved the same way.  But practically, we weren't going to get all of it saved for us to pick from later.  The Victorian appetite for words was immense (sound familiar?).  So I'm glad the perfect was not the enemy of the good, here, and that several someones made editorial decisions to preserve some of it.   But don't get me wrong.  I'm not advocating that the "non-printed" stuff be phased out merely because it didn't make the print editorial cut.  If the online part is selling subscriptions for 20+ years, then by definition the collective information is sufficiently non-dregs to stay there.  I am saying there is a market for selective quality in printed form, and this market relates directly to the main discussion in this topic.</blockquote>

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