MMD Editorial Practices
By Hauke Marxsen
Hi everybody. John A. Tuttle's questions:
> 1. Why do the editors of MMD feel it's necessary to comment on the
> content of articles submitted to the digest?
>
> 2. Are they concerned that people will misunderstand the written words?
>
> 3. Can't the editors just edit the publication and not the articles?
>
> 4. Are the comments really necessary?
>
> 5. Isn't it true that most editors use an 'editorial' to present their
> own thoughts instead of chopping up the publication with their
> interjections?
My feeling is that Robbie Rhodes and Jody Kravitz are doing the moder- ation very well. I prefer a moderated Digest with humans behind it and not an automat. With my poor English I am glad that there is someone who polishes up my text a little bit before it is submitted to all of you.
Maybe you will not get one or another important opinion or experience, because the person thinks his English is not good enough to publish it in the Digest. Where are the Japanese MMD enthusiasts? Often a comment makes the text more understandable to me. Sometimes a comment is the answer to a question; isn't that good ?
Yours, Hauke Marxsen (very, very seldom eating "Kraut")
[ Hauke, I appreciate the work you do to write in English, and your text
[ is very good already. As you can see, I changed it very little, only
[ adding "a little polish," just as my German teacher does for me!
[ I like the word-play about "Automat" = "automatic machine" _or_
[ "jukebox" in German! Just put in a few coins, for the Automat Digest!
[ -- Robbie
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