On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Kaoru L. Shimitsu wrote:
A NOTE FOR ALL THOSE HOSERS WHO LIKE THIS FIC: All the power to you.
Obviously you haven't read much fanfiction out there. Leifker, Zen,
Lawson, Perry all put this fic to shame in the general keep-ability
of most readers. I don't much care for pandering to the popular,
and I never have. I read what I like, and if I don't like it, then
I either leave it alone (My usual reaction) or I write about what i
didn't like and found obnoxious (Which is what happens when everyone
gloats, raves, and oozes about how good a fic is, and I read it and
become disappointed).
However, you do apparently like delivering broad flames at people you
don't know, generally insulting their taste and setting yourself up as the
judge of what is and what isn't good fanfiction. While you have every
right to like or dislike fics, or even to say a fic is a total pile of
garbage, the FFML is not for delivering personal attacks on people,
whether named or in broad categories, such as 'the hosers who like this
fic'.
Please refrain in the future from this sort of insult to the rest of the
people on the list.
I would ban this thread, but it also contains some good discussion related
to the story's actual content, so I will not ban it yet, although if
further discussion of who is more of an idiot than who continues, I may
have to change my mind.
Thank you all for your time and have a nice day.
John Biles
FFML Administration Staff