Dr. Jekyll Peterson and Mr. Hyde Peterson???

[_Daniel Peterson]

Well, if you didn't intend for the publication to come off like Seth obviously think it comes off, then you've got an even bigger problem than I thought. Because no matter what your intentions are, your publication isn't reflecting them. So maybe you should work on getting your publication in line with your intentions.

You base this verdict on the comments of one reader -- perhaps a careful, objective, and regular reader, perhaps not -- and on your quite uninformed declaration that his perception is "valid."

Good grief, I feel like I've been holding a seminar on communication in customer service.

Let me put you at ease, then: You haven't.

We have, in fact, conducted subscriber surveys and the like, and we take their input quite seriously. Moreover, we hear from our subscribers very, very frequently.

We haven't just been sitting around waiting for the input of a nonreader such as yourself, invaluable though the opinions of the uninformed generally are.

[_harmony]

We haven't just been sitting around waiting for the input of a nonreader such as yourself, invaluable though the opinions of the uninformed generally are.

Well, since I didn't give you any input of my own (simply pointed out that Seth's input was valid... and from my limited reading of your publication, I think he's right), you have nothing to sneer at.

[_Daniel Peterson]

you have nothing to sneer at.

I wasn't sneering.

But I don't think that your verdict of "valid" is worth the electrons it took to express it. (Had you ruled Sethbag's comment "invalid," I would have felt the same way about it.)

I'm headed into the mountains for the night. I'm hoping that beastie's book-free MMM thread will have added several more wholly insubstantial pages by the time I return. I'm counting on you guys!

[_harmony]

I'm headed into the mountains for the night. I'm hoping that beastie's book-free MMM thread will have added several more wholly insubstantial pages by the time I return. I'm counting on you guys!

I'm off to dinner with my Sweet Pickle, and some furniture shopping. Have a great time in the mountains. We'll do our best to maintain our substantial integrity while you're gone.

[_Dr. Shades]

I'm headed into the mountains for the night.

I'm off to dinner with my Sweet Pickle, and some furniture shopping.

I went to a limited Magic: the Gathering tournament. I got my butt kicked.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

I'm headed into the mountains for the night.

I'm off to dinner with my Sweet Pickle, and some furniture shopping.

I went to a limited Magic: the Gathering tournament. I got my butt kicked.

In the tournament, or by the jocks waiting outside? ;)

[_Dr. Shades]

In the tournament. :-)

I'm far too old to be victimized by jocks.

[_SUAS]

No one Messes with Mother Nature........Especially a WOMAN...WOMEN...Unless the mountains....Are white capped with sugar..powered sugar..the hills are alive with the sound of snoring.....

[_Mister Scratch]

We have, in fact, conducted subscriber surveys and the like, and we take their input quite seriously. Moreover, we hear from our subscribers very, very frequently.

Well, *that* is very interesting. I guess we would have to come to the conclusion that the typical FARMS Review reader demands articles which trash critics, ridicule their intelligence, and just generally attack them. Further, the fact that you get "tips" from your readers "very, very frequently" suggests that you are more about pandering to your "Sugar Daddies" than you are to scholarly excellence.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Well, *that* is very interesting. I guess we would have to come to the conclusion that the typical FARMS Review reader demands articles which trash critics, ridicule their intelligence, and just generally attack them. Further, the fact that you get "tips" from your readers "very, very frequently" suggests that you are more about pandering to your "Sugar Daddies" than you are to scholarly excellence.

Yes, Scartch, that is undoubtedly the conclusion that you would have to come to . . . being Scartch.