On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 02:27:03AM +0000, Gary Kleppe wrote:

Nicholas Leifker <nightelf@thekeep.org> wrote:

This is your hypocricy.

My position on characterizations is perfectly simple:

- Other writers are allowed to use whatever characterizations they wish.
I am allowed not to like their characterizations, and to suggest that
they change them. They are allowed to ignore me if they wish.

- I am allowed to use whatever characterizations I wish. Readers are
allowed not to like my characterizations, and to suggest that I change
them. I am allowed to ignore them, if I'm not convinced by whatever
argument they give.

Terrible double-standard, no?

In your own works, you do the same things that you chastise others
about.  _That_, my friend, is the double standard.
 

Fanfiction thrives on the fact that we take the roads that Takahashi
DIDN'T.  It lives on diversity and fresh, innovative ideas on the
characters.  These are the roads you walk, and the roads that you seek to
close to others with your slander.  

Now when did I slander anyone? I think you need to calm down a bit here.

Perhaps a little.  But you once called somebody else's characterisation
"BS".  If you didn't slander the person personally, you certainly slandered
their characterization.

Ranma to be together eventually can come to fruition.  Of course, you are
allowed to use your own interpretation... provided you do not chastise
others for theirs.

Nope. Wrong. I'm afraid that's not how it works. It's a little thing
called "the right to one's own opinion." Each of us is allowed to write
as we wish. Each of us is allowed to comment on each other's writing as
we wish.

Uh-huh.  This endless acrimony is starting to annoy me.  I think I'll go
out and shoot someone.  It's a free country, after all; I should have the
right to.

This is a problem.  You are insisting upon a right.  However, with 
rights come responsibilities, which you seem unwilling to assume.

It all comes down to respect.  If you don't give any, don't expect
any in return.

-- 
  -Sean Connor (sec@softhome.net)

    The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
    the day they start making vacuum cleaners.