Vault Dweller said:
Because adding a disclaimer doesn't solve the problem. At all. Again, if the problem is "OMG! I interviewed myself! The shame!", then no "Hey guys! Guess what? I done interviewed meself!" clarification will fix it. Thus, removing questionable content is the only way to fix the problem.
At first when I read the first "Weller:" I thought "that’s kind of tacky". A fraction of a second later I thought "this will be probably be brought up anyway, get discussed, and probably not happen again so no biggy".
It really wasn’t that much of an issue in the first place. And I really and truly believe that that is/was the main thrust of baby Arm comment, and I'm saying that with confidence because he said so himself:
...I'm not saying you should go back and cut or edit anything at this point, just that DP's not the only one having these thoughts.
But then, somewhere, it took a bad turn.
baby arm said:
The only thing that could be done now is (*1)editing out your contributions or (*2)adding a disclaimer at the beginning. I'm not sure enough people around here care enough about it to do that. And you obviously don't agree that there's a problem. So (*3)leave it unless DP or myself convinced you otherwise...
I disagree at the *1 course of action/suggestion
completely, and not only that but I think you have chosen to follow that suggestion for the wrong reasons.
Allow me to diverse for a just a moment.
aboyd said:
Well, I'm disappointed to see that VD isn't being vindictive here. Or at least he's putting up a good show implying otherwise.
Personally, when people complain about my handling of my own projects, I tend to say, "this ain't worth the trouble" and I remove the project. I've done it a few times in my life, and I've found that it works really well. You can call it "taking your ball and going home" or you can say it's an overreaction or whatever other negative label you want to apply. But even with the negative labels, such huffy responses actually work in many cases. What is it that they do? They get the whiner to shut up, or leave, or it steel's the resolve of the remaining participants. But more than anything, it gives the person behind it a chance to wash his hands of it... to put it behind himself and say, "screw it, I'll move on to something else." It's psychology to a small degree -- freeing yourself of the problem issue by simply walking away from it, even as everyone else stands around the horse corpse, calling for you to come back and kick it a few more times.
I like that -- it's powerful to feel "this doesn't define me and I'm not beholden to it." But I guess that's not really what VD was doing. He was just honestly choosing a course of action to address his friend's criticism. Oh well. Sometimes being a bit more tough can have good consequences, even if people classify it as an overreaction.
I am seeing this situation from a different point of view.
Baring ones scares attain in a defeat is as impotent as baring the scars of victory, it is the scares of defeat that reminds one of his own failures and mistakes so he shell not repeat them, and to teach him modesty.
VD, even if you still don’t think that you have done nothing wrong, it doesn’t change the fact that other have disagreed with you. You shouldn’t have retracted your answers from the interview, for the above reason alone, it should have stayed either unedited or with a disclaimer.
baby arm said:
...I was just expressing my view so in the future you don't make an ass of yourself.
The second reason the review shouldn’t have been edited, is oldschool journalism ethics, which I gather from my year of reading the RPGcodex, you care about with a passion (and rightfully so) and go to some efforts to achieve them, and I would like to take this opportunity to command you on that.
Once any piece of writing you have wrote goes out into the wild, you should stand by it for better or worse, if at any point in time you see an error in your work, admit it but don’t go back and alter it, in any way, issue an admission of error, a correction, maybe an apology, whatever fits the situation,
but don’t go back and change it!
Bare your scars with pride, all of them!