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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 5435073" data-attributes="member: 20239">It seems to me that a small amount of built-in flexibility facilitates that goal much better than a rigid arbitrary deadline.Again, if we're talking about an online e-zine, why wouldn't you release the &quot;complete ahead of time&quot; articles when they are done, instead of sitting on them for days or weeks to stick to an arbitrary release schedule?So delaying the release of an article for a few days to make sure it's good and there are no problems with it = bad, unprofessional and lazy.But delaying the release of a complete and ready to go article for weeks or months in order to stick to an arbitrary publishing schedule = good, professional and organized.Yeah, I'm not buying it. I suspect that the people who have a problem with the current policy would throw an even bigger fit if they found that WotC was &quot;withholding&quot; finished content from subscribers by sitting on it for weeks or months at a time. I can just imagine how the thread title on ENWorld would read...&quot;Waaaaah!!! WotC is holding my content hostage! DDI is the devil!&quot;Followed by a thread full of posts by people who don't read the online periodicals and don't even subscribe to DDI complaining about a policy that doesn't affect them in any way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 5435073, member: 20239"] It seems to me that a small amount of built-in flexibility facilitates that goal much better than a rigid arbitrary deadline. Again, if we're talking about an online e-zine, why wouldn't you release the "complete ahead of time" articles when they are done, instead of sitting on them for days or weeks to stick to an arbitrary release schedule? So delaying the release of an article for a few days to make sure it's good and there are no problems with it = bad, unprofessional and lazy. But delaying the release of a complete and ready to go article for weeks or months in order to stick to an arbitrary publishing schedule = good, professional and organized. Yeah, I'm not buying it. I suspect that the people who have a problem with the current policy would throw an even bigger fit if they found that WotC was "withholding" finished content from subscribers by sitting on it for weeks or months at a time. I can just imagine how the thread title on ENWorld would read... "[B]Waaaaah!!! WotC is holding my content hostage! DDI is the devil![/B]" Followed by a thread full of posts by people who don't read the online periodicals and don't even subscribe to DDI complaining about a policy that doesn't affect them in any way. [/QUOTE]

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