thread: 2012-03-04 : Anonymous Followup
On 2012-03-05, Meserach wrote:
John Harper: I'm pretty sure that in fact this post doesn't show that Ben's claims were bullshit, in fact the post actively substantiates some of them. It does also tell Ben off for getting involved when it was nothing to do with him, but that's an issue separable from the validity of the claims themselves.
(FWIW, from what I'm seeing here and elsewhere, Ben really shouldn't have gotten involved, and I'm not sure Vincent should have either - but that is not the same as saying that the issue didn't need some publicity).
It is pretty clear to me that, however ingrained such practices are in the "traditional small-press environment", that people not getting "upfront" payments until months after the work was turned in is definitely Not Cool, and shouldn't be happening - although exactly what things need to change in order to resolve that still remain unclear.
Whether a boycott is a good idea or not is a terrifically complicated ethical issue which I doubt this comments section will ever be well-constituted enough to intelligibly address.
