Galaxy Police File 11 Sep 98 
 arromdee@inetnow.net is reported to have said... 

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Paul Arezina wrote:

1) It's perfectly within anyone's right to dislike a fanfic and say so
publicly, reasons or no.

This assumes that GUtB is really sincere and just expressing dissenting
opinions.  He's *not*.  He's not perfectly within his rights to claim to
dislike a fanfic when he really doesn't care about the fanfic and is just
trying to get people mad.

1. GUtB has stated himself that certain genres of fanfics 
(e.g.self-insertion) are not worth reading and should be deleted 
unread. He thinks that all of them have the author in there as this 
great god-being who solves the world's problems and marries the hero or 
heroine of the storyline.

2. He believes that ongoing series aren't really fanfics because 
they're not completed. Actually, the truth is that while the series 
might not be completed, the different episodes of it are, and they can 
be viewed separately like episodes of a running TV series. (Nielson 
families don't wait until a series has completed production, they send 
ratings analysis on a per episode basis.)

3. Even if you point out that the fanfic takes place in an alternate 
timeline where the characters' histories were altered somewhat, he 
still tells you your characters are complete OOC and that your story is 
therefore boring. 

Watashi wa GP toko Tantei desu