This is the second such post this week. (Maybe this one should have a
[BML] tag. ^_-) I feel the need to respond before this sort of thing
becomes epidemic. If the Slayer of Spam wishes to smite me down for this
somewhat irate response, so be it.

Berk Watkins <jrandom@grove.ufl.edu> wrote:

Unfortuantely, as of late I've discovered a sad trend that has begun
with fanfiction.  C&C, my life's blood, the stuff that I live on, to
tell me where other people would like me to take my writing, has dried
up.

Here's a couple of questions for you, Berk:

1) How much C&C do you provide to others?

2) Of that, how much of it goes to people outside your own personal
circle of friends?

If the answer to these questions is "none," or "not much," then I'm
afraid I can't sympathize with you much.

If David Johnston or Ronny Hedin or Vince Seifert or any of the other
frequent C&Cers on the list were to make a complaint like this, I'd go
and immediately read whatever the fic was that didn't get enough
response and give them the most useful C&C I could, because these people
have been doing the same for others. I haven't seen many or any C&C
posts from you on the list, Berk. Maybe I missed them, or maybe you send
them privately, which is fine; but if you aren't doing C&C at all, then
where do you get off demanding it from others?

The right to complain about not receiving C&C is earned by doing it
yourself. If you're not helping to solve the problem, please don't
complain when it comes around and affects you.

I'm tired of screaming into the roaring wind and being drowned out.

I'm tired of people who think they have a right to C&C but no
responsibility to provide it to others. (And this isn't just directed at
you, Berk.)

This message is a request to those of you who have mailed me or Kai
Neflite in the past with C&C, please e-mail me again.  I am going to add
you to a list of people who will hear my tales before the world at large
does on RAAC.

Suit yourself.

 The FFML has failed me, who will it fail next?

Hopefully it won't fail any of the people who are actually putting into
it what they want to take out.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics.html