First off, I'm so new that I'm wet behind the ears. Second, I heard a few things about the MFU list culture that made me not want to join any, and I haven't. I certainly didn't see this incident happen first hand.
However, I've seen countless others like it, and I had to say that I *love* the way you articulated your position. I agree with you 100 percent.
Personally, I don't see the point of saying anything negative about a story to the writer's face in public. The author might or might not be writing to my taste, but I'm not entitled to have people write to my taste. If you have to say it, say it in email and/or with some courtesy.
That said, I can understand lyrebird's point, and I wouldn't want to be on a list where the rules prohibited saying certain things. I just don't think that, in a civilized society, people should *have* to be forbidden from being mean to each other. It should be obvious, and if it's not, then the community norms should be enforced by peer pressure. It sounds like that's exactly what happened.
/talking about something I didn't witness first hand.
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However, I've seen countless others like it, and I had to say that I *love* the way you articulated your position. I agree with you 100 percent.
Personally, I don't see the point of saying anything negative about a story to the writer's face in public. The author might or might not be writing to my taste, but I'm not entitled to have people write to my taste. If you have to say it, say it in email and/or with some courtesy.
That said, I can understand
/talking about something I didn't witness first hand.