BusyBeeBuzzBuzzBuzz Wrote:
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> Savana23 Wrote:
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> > Why do most editors stay anonymous? It seems
> like
> > they are paranoid if someone has their email or
> > name. After all, they can use fictitious names.
>
> > How can anyone communicate back to them?
>
> When I edited, the shoppers had my first name and
> my email address because that was how the
> companies I edited for wanted it. If it were
> completely up to me, I would still disclose my
> unique email address because shoppers might need
> to email me.
>
> There are legitimate reasons why some editors stay
> anonymous. In addition to what James and Liz
> discussed, a company may require its editors to be
> anonymous, for the same reasons certain newspapers
> and academic journals do.
>
> In my experience as a shopper, I usually can
> communicate with an editor directly via the
> editor's email account. In the rare cases where I
> could not contact my editors directly, I could
> still communicate with the editing staff, my
> schedulers, or other company representatives.
>
> I would not be so quick to label editors who chose
> not to disclose their names or email addresses as
> paranoid. If you had read some of the hostile
> emails some shoppers sent to their editors, you
> might see things differently.
Thanks for the information; I have not had the opportunity to read any emails sent to editors, I do not know how I would do that - I know for me, I do not send those types of email especially in a business atmosphere. My choice of the word "paranoid" was not to insinuate, label or insult editors. I guess what I am saying it was not literal maybe scared, fearful, not willing for some reason might have been a better choice of words. It was a question and I only needed an answer from someone who might know. Thanks again.