thread: 2012-03-03 : Ben Lehman: Caveat Scriba: Margret Weis Productions
On 2012-03-04, pigeon wrote:
Some of the reactions in this thread make no sense.
There are really only two possibilities:
1) Ben really does know people who worked for MWP who complained to him that they were not getting paid, and he wrote the post in good faith, though perhaps too aggressively, and Vincent put it up in equally good faith. It's possible that some of the people complaining were exaggerating, or that Ben misjudged the scope of the problem (clearly "uniformly" was an intensely poor word choice), and indeed perfectly possible that IN GENERAL MWP is totally fair to its freelancers, but in this scenario Ben really does have sources, and he has very good reasons for not wanting to reveal them—because it would get them, as he noted, in the shit as freelance writers.
2) Nobody ever said to Ben that they felt treated poorly by MWP. His post is a complete fabrication, and Ben is a either a delusional schizophrenic of a high order or an intensely calculating sociopath who somehow sees personal gain or vindication coming from this post (how that would be produced I'm still not clear). Vincent has somehow failed to notice this or do any preliminary investigation of his own before putting the post up. Asking Ben for his sources will just lead to even more complex psychotic behavior patterns (and presumably already has).
Two questions:
* Which scenario seems more likely to you?
* In which scenario is there any good reason to ask for Ben's anonymous sources?
