I'm not sure I like the idea of anything we say here having the potential of being published in a magazine without any say.
Gidon
When I discussed the idea with Charley, the idea was to enable GW readers to share in the considerable font of knowledge possessed by posters on UKW, and in so doing introduce them to the live nature of Forums, where more immediate answers can be found to specific problems than can be addressed by monthly magazines. This works to the benefit of all concerned in that it also increases the amount of knowledge available through UKW by GW readers visiting the site and contributing themselves to it.
I understand your concerns, but do rest assured that in selecting a thread to feature we would be looking for one that had plenty of purely technical woodworking advice and help, rather than a diatribe about whether Joe Blogg's table saw is any good, and we'd be careful to edit it so that the material published was purely helpful to that specific technical query, and not rants, off-target comments, etc. (As Alf has already discovered
) Anonymity would also be guaranteed in that only usernames would be used.
We could certainly contact everyone we hoped to feature in any future article ( if this was deemed necessary after various regulars make their views known) to check they were happy, though of course this slows the whole process down considerably and also could lead to a helpful thread being dropped just because one person was on holiday, etc. It would be a shame to drop the idea, as it was intended to bring the enjoyment of woodworking in all its forms to a wider range of people, which is I'm sure a sentiment echoed by most people here, and to help further the general woodworking aims of two very worthwhile institutions, namely GW and UKW.
Pete
