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@AmandaB, I agree with you 100% on this. I think making an opening typo-free is a great point! Especially for the first paragraph/first few lines imho–if there’s more than 3ish unintentional typos at the very beginning of a text-based game, the author’s ability to deliver a quality piece within that specific medium can be questioned. I’m also glad that my comic could help you improve your Spring Thing work–that makes me very happy. :purple_heart:

As for @ramstrong. . .

Look I don’t have the energy to parse out all the reasons why you’re wrong, but while you do have a nugget of truth within your words, your approach, and all-or-nothing take on that, is wholely inncorrect.

It would be one thing if you had been seeking a thoughtful discussion on whether great works can be dismissed b/c of typos and mistakes–because that does happen! Instead, you replied to AmandaB with a badly-phrased “gotcha” trying to prove her wrong:

By changing Amanda’s point from “polish your opening free of typos to give a good 1st impression” into “Amanda is saying that she personally will dismiss great works because of small mistakes”, you are being extremely disingenuous.

And in your reply to her response (where she politely assumed that you had misunderstood and clarified further), you adopted, as I read it, a needlessly declarative tone–more of one debating his side in an argument, not discussing an interesting idea with his peers:

And to top it off, at the end of it all you say these words:

You can’t charge in like you’re disputing a fact (one YOU misread [intentionally or not] from Amanda’s original reply), and then end by saying that it’s “just my opinion”. I and everyone else was just trying to come together as peers in the craft, and YOU made this into a debate about facts, questioning Amanda in needlessly bad-faith ways.

I think you should dial it back and apologize, but at the very least, ramstrong: please do better.

Hopefully, soon we can return to the original topic b/c I didn’t expect to see half of the replies dedicated to your bad-faith take.

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