Estimated_Prophet
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- Mar 28, 2003
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I respect your opinion and appreciate you share your knowledge on this site, but this is harsh criticism of a website that had a nice build and a decent set of writers.
It appears to me that you worry that scouting will be taken less seriously if amateurs try to act as if they can also do it, but you should just be happy that scouting is becoming a more popular discipline even though people do it at varying degrees of ability and talent.
Anyway, it is more likely that this website will give a first-opportunity for a future journalist (a friend of mine got his break by getting experience on a similar website and now works full time for a large media company) than as a scout.
Also the webmaster (maybe Patrick?) can also have a very nice career thanks to the design he did on the website.
It's fine if you are not impressed with the scouting work, but maybe you do not need to trash them so hard about it and get personal with this Patrick guy.
I am sure the majority of people involved with EOTP are nice people but they are presenting their work to the most critical fanbase in hockey. If the site wants to grow it does need to purge itself of contributors who undermine the credibility of the site. The site has enjoyed a degree of success but that leads to more exposure and more criticism. That is a good thing and provides important customer feedback that should be viewed as a tool for self evaluation and improvement.
Perhaps "Patrik" has a technical talent that the site can benefit from but he should stay away from the actual hockey content. I could have brought up other names as he isn't the only one but it would have been silly to spend any more time on the topic.
You seem like a nice person and if you are affiliated with the site I feel bad to have **** on something that you are passionate about but consider people like myself as part of the evolutionary process of the site. At the end of the day the most important thing is to consider whether these criticism's are accurate and to adjust in a manner that will strengthen the site and push it into a more credible arena.