Re: One Year Review as Editor
There are a couple of issues here.
What should the magazine contain? Is Dynasty doing a good job finding authors who write the articles that 2+2 readers want?
If I wanted a magazine that was about personalities, tournament reports, and NLHE, I'd just read Card Player. I think there is a need for a solid strategy-oriented publication. I hope that's what 2+2 Publishing wanted to produce!
I like reading articles about a variety of games, because I play a variety. I can understand why NLHE-focused players don't find much of interest. But I think that top players are still going to benefit from learning a variety of games. I like the current mix a lot better than the stories and such we saw more of a year ago, even if there are particular strategy articles I thought were weak or uninformative.
(I'm surprised to see complaints about Chinese in this thread because AFAIK no article on Chinese Poker has yet appeared!)
Dynasty has said he'd like to see more LHE submissions. I know from personal experience Dynasty is willing to go out and aggressively recruit articles. Maybe more creative solutions are required to get those articles, but I admit I don't have any brilliant ideas.
How has Dynasty performed his editorial duties? Are the articles of high quality and well-presented?
My #1 complaint, as an author, is that it hasn't been clear to me whether an article was accepted or not, until it shows up.
There have been some formatting issues (font changes within an article on some browsers, etc.) which I think have now been fixed.
I think there have been several articles (including my own) that could benefit from some revision/editing. I don't expect a formal peer-review (this is not an academic publication, after all) but I think Dynasty could do more to ensure that articles are well-written, accurate, and readable.
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