I dont mind Lava's work. However, Mystra, everyone here has a right to criticize her work. Just as everyone can criticize each others post. But in this instance she is a stratics shard reporter. That means that her job really should be based off how well her readers respond. I know she doesnt get paid but that shouldnt affect the quality of work if she's passionate about it. That's the problem with UO and related material. People just dont really care anymore.
I am someone that does care a lot and I do my best with the time I have to give.
The fact is the majority of readers DO NOT even go to the boards and read the News from the GL front page as I have stated many times in the past. I get many PMs ( like the one I got from you earlier today ) and emails to my personal email address with concerns and compliments from many of the people of Great Lakes all the time. The fact is the readers do love the Obits, obviously not everyone and that is ok.
Though there are always familar faces in the Obit Column each and every week there are new corpses that have never been featured in the past and that says something right there.
I personally think it's fun. I cannot even count how many times in the past six months I have been around a group of players when someone dies and the comment " Oh no I am gonna make the Obits " or " I hope someone did ( or did not ) take a screenshot ".