Well I've always been a believer in constructive criticism. You can always tell when someone is genuine about wanting to see you improve or trying to talk you down. You are not the latter, and so I appreciate it.

I've kind of been conditioned to constantly open up to other people's suggestions. I started in radio and worked their for five years. I was doing something wrong every day for three solid years. It wasn't until I started doing everything right that I got the boot. According to them it was entirely financial, but even that day I learned something: the bosses best friend always has precedence over you.  :)

Well thanks a lot, I really appreciate all of the insight. The site I was sending the article to was in fact one of those heavy sort of editorial pages. They asked me to fuse opinion into fact, give examples and pretty much go from there. I know exactly what you're saying though when you talked about over-editing. It's an obnoxious curse I suppose. I've recently gotten into the habit of just checking for spelling and punctuation, perhaps even repetition of words as my only methods of editing. Otherwise, kind of like what you said, the entire thing is just a cut and paste job.

I really do appreciate the time you took to analyze the piece. I'm not the least bit offended by anything you said, so don't worry about that. The article itself was really just one of those things I took a shot with, missed and wanted to at least post somewhere instead of watching it bury deep into the realms of obscurity otherwise known as my computer.

Thanks again, and welcome around the AGM world.

PS - you'll find the system may log you out if you're typing a big response, post or wiki. My best suggestion would be to copy whatever it is you typed before you officially hit the post button. Perhaps reload the site and make sure you're still logged in. Then paste it down and you're good to go.

See ya round.

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