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Originally Posted by Vintage Season
My only issue with the comments is that some of them seemed to be snarky, for no other reason than that they could be snarky. Call me old-fashioned, but when the existence of a publication depends upon volunteer effort, it didn't seem like an out-of-bounds request to pass along.
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At the time, I didn't know that it was a free, all-volunteer publication, I assumed it to be a small but commercial publisher. And, under that assumption, call me old-fashioned, but I think a for-profit business trying to sucker the public into doing for free what they should be paying professionals to do is
slimy. It reminds me (again, under my original assumption of it being a commercial publisher) of a sizable company I worked at having a contest to design a logo to represent the company, where the winner got a whole 500 bucks! Some people were excited by it-- I saw it as a job that would cost thousands from a commercial design firm and, as the official symbol for the company would be recognized, a big part of their brand image. $500 for
that would be an
insult.