Ah. Well I 'm saddened by this news. Glorantha will be a poorer place without you mate, and I'd like to de-lurk and say how much I've appreciated your clear sighted, witty, informed contributions to the lists over the years.
Dougie
-:).
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>
> > What HAS happened to Rory as MD editor? I had high hopes his
> > appointment last year would break a lot of the pettiness and log jams
> > - but he seems to be off the radar. And someone (?) on Facebook is
> > saying that they are editing it. The mysteries mulltipy ....
>
> What has happened to Rory is: A) He wasn't given tools to do his job. B) He
> got sick of the fanbase and their whining. C) He doesn't like the HQ2 rules.
> D) He got sick of the current crop of writers and their attitudes.
>
> Rory no longer works for MD, and hasn't since the beginning of the year.
> This was a mutual decision, and hard to make, as Rory *did* want it to
> succeed, but was not able to make a dent in the serious problems there.
>
> Rory no longer reads the HQ lists - he's just deleting messages wholesale.
> He has absolutely *no* interest in reading pros or cons of HQ2, or of
> contributing to the morass. He doesn't like the rules, and that's the end of
> it as far as he's concerned.
>
> Rory seems to have picked up the habit of talking about himself in the third
> person - a bad sign.
>
> RR
> He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
> R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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