Faithlife, you have several reasons to be concerned about the public perception of your integrity at the moment. Note that I say "public perception" specifically to insure that you understand I do not actually question your integrity but rather I question your actions that put integrity into question.
Recent events of relevance:
- listing of features of Logos 7 items marked "(subscription)" that in fact are Logos Now features
- two authors caught in plagarism making one question the "academicness" of the environment in which they and other authors write as these are grad school 101 level errors
- releases of products with inaccurate/missing tagging as in Classics of Western Spirituality and sermons ... note that Kyle has gone a very good job of getting these corrected in a timely manner but they are indicative of a cultural of sloppiness.
So what direction in Logos moving?
- discourse analysis tagging
- direct quotation tagging
- allusion/echo and other intertextual tagging
- figurative speech tagging ...
All of these and many more require that we trust you to provide theologically neutral, accurate and complete tagging. This is especially true as we have little opportunity to attach visible corrections when we disagree with your classification. So just when I need to believe that your tools are neutral what do you do? Because a conservative radical objected to a post, you chose to delete the feature rather than fix the problem which has two relatively small elements:
- renaming the feature in the customization menu
- applying the source screening specified in the web page to the home page as well.
Instead, you chose to tell us that the feature is not relevant to Bible study - a statement that very strongly reeks of a particular theological hermeneutic - and therefore you will remove it. (In addition, news is very relevant to sermon writing so the statement also reeks of illogical self-justification.) Once again, you show that I can not trust Faithlife to be theologically neutral ... a message sent multiple times. So why should I trust that you will not be equally responsive to disagreements in your tools and with your tagging ... moving from neutral to theologically based tagging?
Please don't solve a short term complaint by creating a long-term problem.
