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Clearly, all culprits should be shot at dawn. Come on, don't you think you're overdramatizing, just a tad?
Let's review, shall we? The problem is DELIBERATE changes to text not being clearly noted. This means the uploader has made a choice. AlexBell, for example, knows he made the choice. If someone had read his upload and been previously familiar with the work, enough to notice the change from "gay" to "light-hearted" (before he told us about it), and contacted him, what would have been the response? He would, I believe, have said what he said in this thread--he thought he was improving the text for the modern reader.
An uploader who has made a deliberate choice is unlikely to go back and undo it. This is entirely different from someone reporting a typo, which presumably an uploader might fix.
But HarryT thinks I am supposed to go and find typos in all the MR library, even though my concern isn't typos, but deliberate changes to text. I am sure he is quite aware of conflating two different issues, so the reason he continues to do it is puzzling.
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HarryT does not think you should find all typos in the MR library.
He said, if you are concerned about the issue of deliberate changes, you should proofread and report them on the thread. Proofreading has to do with deviations from the original text -- where does it say anything about the intent behind those changes?
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Where did I make any demands? I expressed my opinion and I made suggestions. Where are the demands?
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Right, you didn't make "demands", you made "suggestions". I'm sure everyone is tremendously grateful you cleared that one up.
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The library here is suspect, and most people apparently don't care one bit that it is. I stopped using it long ago. I would think that those who do use it, and especially those who upload to it, would care the most about trying to ensure that its contents are accurate, but that doesn't seem to be the case. And that's another puzzle.
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I hope the door didn't hit you on the way out.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Editing is done before publication, not after. As you well know.
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Editing is done whenever it needs to be done. If it is usually done before publication, that is because it is assumed all errors will be caught by then. Why does it matter regardless? An uploader is publishing a new version of the book, isn't he? So it actually IS being done before publication!
