One reason I take them in conjunction with other sources, which bits of the game seemed to validate afterward. That, and they don't fit the MO of our general monkeytruthers (not to mention appearing before the writing wave hit the lore forums).

Do they have to be written by developers to be official? I mean, what this person has done, in essence, is mantle Bethesda. So effectively, in fact, that many people believed that it/she/he was a developer, until people started breaking cover to ask the authorities for answers.

In my mind, the Letters exceed even Monkey Truth. They have become Lore by looking so much like it that they have become it.

That's what it means to be Monkey Truth. Still doesn't make it something to rely upon in debate.

Any more than Kirkbride's unconfirmed texts? His authority comes from his fundamental understanding of the lore. What separates the Letters from the Loveletter?

Not really, Monkeytruth (even under the auspices of T0), is still consciously fan created. Monkeytruth has never sent anybody PMing Bethesda employees to try and figure out whether they wrote it.

A fundamental understanding grounded in years of working on and in the world, including things as of yet unrevealed (see: the originally Shor Son of Shor, censored due to the mention of Skyrim lore). The Loveletter has a chance of influencing and appearing in future lore (see: Infernal City), fan created stuff does not.

Don't get me wrong: I think the Summoning Day letters are well written and do some very interesting things to the series. However, they ultimately have no impact on the lore as seen by Bethesda, just on our personal interpretation of it.

It has however been mistaken for Dev stuff. The lack of confusion is due to most people posting under their own names.

wow, this has gotten a lot of discussion

Perhaps by a newbie for a brief moment - not really the same thing.