On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Jonathan Lavallee wrote:

sick and tired of reading a certain type of fanfic.  You
know what I'm talking about, those ego-gratifying, poorly
written pieces of trash I like to call self-insertion 'fics.  I
hate them.  I think that there is no greater waste of time

If you don't like them, don't read them.  Any genre can be well done and
any can be badly done; but no one can FORCE you to read them.

Post notes:

Well now that I'm back in control of my body I guess I
should explain something.  This is not spam.  Well I
don't consider it spam, you see I believe that this is just
a C&C on a broad basis.  To give an example, instead
of C&C ing someone's work I'm just doing a general
C&C of fanfiction types that have pissed me off lately.               
This week it was the self-insertion 'fic, next week ... who knows.

No, you are doing a loud flame against an entire genre without giving any
concrete examples.  Which basically makes it a big waste of time.


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