Yeah; this is all very difficult when it's your friends. I'm inclined to agree that you're not really in a position of guilt by speaking out about it (she said, all unsolicited opinions). Sanders hurts himself, and he hurts his publication by acting in the way he does; people speaking out about that behaviour are just pointing out the big pink elephant in the room.
While I think that's a good effort at a compromise? I suspect those stories -- unless people opt to repost them on their own webspace or something like that -- might end up being a loss. I'm not sure how amenable people will be to going out of their way to pay an author because their story was placed in a market that is under the microscope for bad behaviour. As a gut-check it's not something I'd personally be comfortable doing.
I am more than happy to read those authors in other venues, though, and will do so.
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Date: 2008-07-12 01:09 am (UTC)While I think that's a good effort at a compromise? I suspect those stories -- unless people opt to repost them on their own webspace or something like that -- might end up being a loss. I'm not sure how amenable people will be to going out of their way to pay an author because their story was placed in a market that is under the microscope for bad behaviour. As a gut-check it's not something I'd personally be comfortable doing.
I am more than happy to read those authors in other venues, though, and will do so.