While most of the latest ACF dust up doesn't interest me, I did find one of Roger's comments interesting: "Let people think of me what they will. Like I said, I really don't give a damn. But if they judge ACF based on my inane commentary and not on the questions themselves (which are the only things that truly speak for ACF), then that's their own stupidity and I won't regret their absence at the next ACF tournament." In other words, if Coke put out a new product that was superior to everything else on the market, but pushed it to people by saying "If you don't drink this you're a certified moron who shouldn't be allowed to leave the house," it's the public's fault for not accepting the product. Like it or not, products and the organizations that create them are linked. You edit a question set for ACF, people are going to link you with it. And while they may not boycott because of you specifically, I can't see you getting a lot of slack should something be amiss. You say you don't care what people think of you based on your comments, and that's fine for you. But anything you produce will be judged using criteria that includes, to some extent, what people know (or think they know) about you. Opinion isn't just formed by some ideal, but also by emotion, inference, and a lot of subjective stuff. Will this matter in the long run? Perhaps not. But it's worth conisdering.
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