When an editor says "you know what I mean?" look out!
That phrase usually means the editor doesn't know what he or she means. That is the editor, or someone in the editor's organization, has a general idea for a story kind of about something but they haven't really worked it out.
This situation is anything from wearing to deadly as the editor thrashes around trying to clarify what is wanted by butchering successive rewrites of your story. The absolute best you can hope for is that the editor will see that your story isn't want was wanted and be able to spell it out for you for the rewrite.
When an editor asks "Do you know what I mean?" The best answer is: "No. Can you clarify?"
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