thread: 2012-03-03 : Ben Lehman: Caveat Scriba: Margret Weis Productions
On 2012-03-04, walkerp wrote:
@Meserach
Yes, good point. I do understand why the freelancers in question aren't speaking and I appreciate the need for a whistleblower to be able to safely share information about bad practices.
The problem here is that the self-appointed spokesperson has come on like an ambulance-chasing lawyer in full attack mode, thus creating antagonism right from the start and ignoring any sense of the greater gaming community that both members are part of. There appears to be no good faith attempt to communicate and learn why payment hasn't been made. Worse, there is a strong ideological sub-text that puts into question Ben's real motivations here.
Had this been an anonymous post from a freelancer explaining the details of their situation and what communications (or lack thereof) they had received from MWP, I think most people would be a lot more sympathetic.
Instead, this comes off as a screed by someone who already has an axe to grind with medium-sized companies taking advantage of indie talent and undermining the ideological purity of the creator-owned movement.
So a lot of people's immediate reaction is going to be "prove it!".
Finally, when the author of this contentious post says "I'm not particularly involved in this thread right now", I can only assume that he is not here in good faith at all.
