Hey Blue you're way off base on the freelancers.
They get their orders from the line editor and he has not (evidently) made errata a priority, or heck even something to be done at some point.
Basically it's all management (and lack thereof) fault.
Sorry man, I know you believe that but I'm not buying it. Not even slightly.
See, stuff like this makes it really hard to want to reply to you. You don't come off as asking questions in good faith, or even making complaints in good faith. Even when Adzling, one of the
most critical of CGL posters around here, tries to remind/explain to you how the system works, you just ignore him and go off on another rant.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to engage with you, when you're acting like this?
You
demand to know what
SR:Anarchy is, and then go on for like a paragraph about how you already hate it. You
demand errata for some rules you think are missing, then you go on to insist that it be official (but then you shift the goalposts again, demanding that a freelancer do unpaid work); which is it, do you want something official (in which case none of us here can help you) or do you insist a freelancer do unpaid work and write something
for you, that they weren't assigned to write by their boss (in which case, ignoring the attitude you're showing and the fact you're insisting someone do someone
else's job without their boss's permission, you're still not actually getting the official errata you demanded).
You're establishing this pattern of behavior, man, that creates nothing but a string of off-topic no-win situations for people. Not only are you going on these page-long rants in all the wrong threads, but you
insist on things, then shift the goalposts to make it impossible to satisfy you.
And you're doing all of it to
the people who can't help you. Freelancers can't post official errata. Non-disclosure agreements prevent us from discussing rules creation or backstage discussions, which means we're not supposed to even
really have discussions about errata we'd like to see, and it means we have to be really careful when we post even just a FAQ. Basic professionalism -- since you say you're in the RPG industry, you should know this -- prevents us from posting an errata/FAQ on someone else's work
anyways, and NDAs prevent us from posting a meaningful errata/FAQ on our own work,
and we're just contract labor, so nothing we post would be official anyways,
and it's not your place to demand anything of us at all, anyways, especially when you do it in a way that repeatedly calls us lazy and incompetent. The list of reasons we shouldn't, and in fact
can't, give you what you want just goes on and on and on, and that's without even taking into account the attitude you're showing and the insults you're throwing around.
We're here, on these forums, on our own time, and on our own dime. We answer questions when we can, we ask questions and get feedback when we can. We're here on the forums because we're fans, and we got this job because we're fans. Our pennies per word don't obligate us to take your rambling demands and abuse. More importantly, though, we can't give you what you keep demanding we give you. We write what we're told to write, and that's all we
have to write, but it's also all we
can write. Our characters aren't our own, our gear, our rules, our critters. Our authority over a product, officially and legally,
literally ends when we send it in for editing. It becomes someone else's work, and they get the final say on what makes it to publication, but also the final say on what gets said about it, after the fact. Legally.
We literally
can not give you what you want, as freelancers, but you keep demanding we give it to you, in thread after thread, and insulting us when we don't. And since you claim to be in the RPG industry, you should know that. If we're here, on the forum, we're
already doing everything we can do, everything we're allowed to do, to try and help out.
Maybe you don't like the limitations of contracted freelance work. Okay, but take that up with the RPG industry as a whole.