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Originally Posted by Phogg
Nah.
The same little group of posters have been throwing the same strawman out since I first registered.
On thread after thread.
Then they pretend their opponents not only proposed said strawman but defended it.
It gets old, but we keep slapping them down.
Not because they are capable of examining the way the market is changing and reexamining their position, but because new people come to the forum and are exploring all this for the first time.
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You are of course quite right. I meant to refer only to the particular incarnation of the strawman in this thread. I should have been clearer. I think perhaps we need our own version of Godwin's rule to cover this situation. Something like:
As an online discussion involving Indie v. Traditional publishing grows longer, the probability of a pro-traditional publishing post setting up a strawman involving the total lack of value provided by traditional publishers and/or predicting their demise approaches 100%.