On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Guy Smiles wrote:

A major problem with too many fanfics are that they stuffed with bloated 
dialogue. What makes an exchange between characters 'bloated'? Dialogue 
becomes bloated when the author puts in more information than is 
necessary for the character to convey a point.

(Of course, not everything a character says in a fic is information intended
to convey a point, so this statement is worthless.)

Blah, blah.  Tybalt and WW, will you _please_ get rid of this guy?