On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Jed Bidwell wrote:

Now, I just want all of you to know that I have no clue why everyone bashes
him (if I did, maybe my opinion would be different), and I hope no one
judges me too harshly for sticking up for him, but I felt that what he told
me had a certain ring of truth. I am currently performing a TOTAL overhaul
of my fic (with the help of Grayson Towler, God bless him).

Anyway, that's my contribution to this thread. Now, without further ado, let
the flames begin.

The problem is that you don't know why everyone bashes him, but you're still
sticking up to defend him.  You should *learn* why everyone bashes him *first*.

He basically just posts here to stir up trouble.  He's used at least four
different accounts to do it in, and he's said some blatantly wrong things
which everyone else has to spend a lot of time to refute in order not to give
other writers the wrong ideas.