From: thelastearthman@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 10:46:38 AM UTC-7, William Vetter wrote:   
      
     I don't get why you think Critters would be inferior to posting a manuscript   
   on usenet, and asking people to read it.    
      
      
   NAMASTE:    
      
   I was quite active in Critters back in the late 1990s.  After a bit there, I   
   realized I was reading and judging stories written by many people who didn't   
   have a clue.   
      
   For instance, I critiqued one story in which a robot made of metal dove out of   
   a boat and swam to shore.  When I explained how Archimede's findings made that   
   unlikely, a number of people flamed me.   
      
   Likewise, in a story where ancient cultures were fighting a battle using   
   bronze swords and steel shields, when I pointed out that if one could make   
   enough steel for shields, why would one use bronze swords.  And what about the   
   intervening Iron Age?  And    
   one wouldn't use steel for shields, since they wouldn't absorb the blow like   
   wood, leather, wicker. Again, the flames.   
      
   After some time in Critters  went by, I realized that while many of the   
   writers could write, they didn't have the appropriate facts and apparently and   
   apparently were unwilling to research them.    
           
   ALSO   
      
   Why would I publish a manuscript here?   
      
   A tad over 40% of my stories get published, and most of the periodicals I   
   submit to won't take stories that have been previously published.   
      
   C.E. Gee   
      
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