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Feb 18 10 8:14 PM
jephyork wrote:Because the original poster DIDN'T KNOW that an Omnibus was on the way. He got an e-mail from someone that HE ASSUMED WAS IMPLYING that an Omnibus was on the way -- and then, based ONLY on that ASSUMPTION, he started this thread with its misleading subject line. Then he got chastised for assuming, and for posting portions of a private e-mail conversation (including the other party's contact info), and he deleted the post. Honestly, I wish he'd deleted the subject line too. Because every time "Thor Simonson Omnibus" gets mentioned on this board, everyone goes nuts. And starting a thread stating that the book "must" be on its way, just gets everyone all excited over nothing. Back on p.1-2 of this thread, everyone was reacting to the deletion of the original post by calming down, dropping the topic, laughing about the leak of imagined assumptions and moving on. I hoped it would go away. But no, it's caught fire once again, and the listmakers have come out of the woodwork, with their pages and pages of extras they want to see included, and the "how should we package this" people have shown up to talk about one volume vs. two, and now everyone's all hopped up for a Thor Omnibus. And -- oh great -- now the "how dare you censor valuable information, we demand full disclosure" people have arrived -- people who are accusing the board mods of taking the post down, even though the post clearly shows that the *original poster* was the one who edited it. Oy vey. And this entire thing is based on one poster's leap to a conclusion that wasn't warranted by the facts, and his unfounded statement that an Omnibus "must" be on the way. Let's put it this way, DC Newton -- if you accidentally started a rumor, even though you weren't sure if the rumor was true or not -- would you stand by the contents of the rumor and watch as everyone else gets all worked up and excited? Well. Of course YOU would. But the rest of you get the idea. -Jeph!
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