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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dana_Jorgensen" data-source="post: 1093224" data-attributes="member: 12962">Are you one of the annoying dilettantes? That all depends upon whether or not you happen to be capable of learning anything from this. RPGnow will in the future have a tool allowing for vendor rebuttal to comments, and with the way things are now, it is a tool that would disappear weeks after being introduced due to misuse by all these new amatuers-turned-publisher. Best to raise the issue beforehand rather than when its too late.Ummm... If a review is nothing more than my opinion, why would anyone else's judgment of it be better than mine? The whole point of the original post was to help publishers understand that when a review is made, people are just calling it as they see it and publishers should be seriously reviewing the factors that presented that appearance to begin with, rather than reacting with the indignant and combative nature so many have been exhibiting of late. The only time a bad review is a personal attack is when the reviewer's words can't possibly be construed as a poor choice of words 9i.e., they come right out and spout off about their hatred of the author or publisher or related policies). What if someone else mentioned my products in a competitor's comment space first? Or if a competitor refers to their own products in my comment space? I think that at that point, it becomes fair game for me to do the same as well, since not doing so is no longer to my benefit.There are two ways you young'uns are going to learn. Either you heed the advice of those who walked the same road before you, or you learn it through the school of hard knocks once your own actions sign you up for classes.There is no such thing as private email. The FBI reads your email. The NSA reads your email, The CIA reads your email. Your ISP reads your email. Your employer reads your email. Hell, if you're married, your spouse or children probably read your email, too. And there is no legal expectation of privacy placed on business email. They guy signed it as business email. Even if he hadn't there's still a fair chance someone outside the pair writing the mails would have viewed them as well.I don't see a need to defend myself. I think my goals for this thread are self-validating. However, I do see a need to clear up some areas you seem to have failed to think through completely.I don't speak poorly of those I consider my peers. And in general, I don't consider many new publishers to be my peers. They need to earn some scars first, so to speak. When I've been writing and publishing for over 10 years, why would I consider someone in the business for all of six months a peer? And as for my comments on RPGnow, while I do compare competing products to my own, I also make the effort to compare them on neutral grounds as well, against other similar products. Nobody else even attempts this. I go to far greater effort than most to be fair with my reviews than most, though admittedly, it is getting harder by the day to find decent D20 products.</blockquote>

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