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Old 03-31-2009, 01:49 PM   #174
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
The definition of 'professional' is only meaningful in a system where that label is attached by an outside entity, by the gatekeepers. Once the public becomes the gatekeeper, they'll sort what is 'professional' from what isn't professional. A true democracy of choice, not a limited and sanctioned choice of what 'they' give us. I stand by my earlier statements of creators creating just because they 'have to'.
With the fan-fiction, you were lucky if you could find a place with reviews to sort the good ones to not so good ones. Quite a lot pure crap was also classified as good ones. That still wasn't the problem, but the fact that quality was replaced by quantity. A lot 1-20 pages long stories that wouldn't pass even lower grades teacher's examination.
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