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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
It seems to me that Sturgeon's law is now something of an underestimate of the amount of crud.
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Sturgeon's law was made in the context of professionally published science fiction. If 90% of the stuff that got past traditional publishing gatekeepers is crap, you can imagine what the slushpile looks like... and the collection of works that nobody was dedicated enough to format on paper and pay to mail to a publisher, but hey, now that all they need to do is enter words onto a screen and click "submit," they're PUBLISHED AUTHORS!
One of the fascinating parts for me is seeing what *could've* been submitted to publishers, and would need extensive editing to be worth buying, but would absolutely shine with that editing. And I get to compare that to the stuff that really never should've left the originators' (can't call them authors) hard drives.