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Mara's avatar

Good, you can't please everyone.

Trying to convince the intractable is an exercise in futility.

However, I don't think the solution is to publish work you feel is incomplete.

I would suggest that a better method is having a team of trusted quality checkers.

They will read the work and let you know what they think, which makes it easier to maintain a consistent level.

It can be challenging to give yourself an objective evaluation because we remember the work at all stages so our perception is clouded by previous impressions.

This is also the reason why people miss their own spelling mistakes but not other's.

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March Twisdale's avatar

Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, I will be watching for basic quality, of course. If you want to volunteer as a "quality checker," though, I'm open to the idea. ;-)

Mostly, I'm giving myself permission to share thoughts without running around trying to find "other sources" to back me up, every single time. And, I've got so many topics that I want to talk about that aren't even "research-able," because fairly often I have an idea about something that I've never heard expressed anywhere else.

Those are the interesting topics I'm really wanting to get into, and I just need to give myself permission to actively be imperfect, LOL.

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