From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 6:45:10 PM UTC-4, C. E. Gee wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Why do you think it's gonna be better if you post your name here and ask   
   random people to critique something you got published?  When I did it, I got   
   mixed results.   
      
   >    
   > 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.   
      
      
   I don't get what you mean by flamed.  You sent somebody a critique, and he   
   sent you emails back that said you were a jerk for critiquing him?   
      
      
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   I could argue about this, because I know something about ancient warfare and   
   also metallurgy, but I suspect you'd be hurt and say I was flaming you.   
   >    
   > 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?   
      
   Are you talking about critters or this newsgroup rasfc?   
      
   So far as I know, no editor considers a password place like critters as prior   
   publication.   
   >    
   > 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.   
   >    
   Like I said, when you get the emails from Andrew Burt, when the members   
   announce where their stories have been accepted, many of them are the same   
   places you send manuscripts to.   
      
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