Actually, Gubby's post was C&C.  It was his commentary on why he 

would

never read WUE, and he is perfectly entitled to it.  I don't take
offense at what Gubby says; negative commentary is part of the price 

an

author pays for writing.

Now, I do not say that Gubby's commentary was well thought-out, 

useful

or influencing.  However, it was commentary of a sort, and I don't
object to it.

Quoteth The Critic:

Ah, now I remember why I never bothered with this series. It's a 
continuation fic, and those automatically get deleted.

How is that commentary on WUE?  That's a commentary on continuations.
That's an assertion of his world view that really doesn't have 
anything to do with the fic, thinly covered up as commentary.

It's commentary because:

1) Gubby will not ever read WUE

2) Gubby says why, which is because it's a continuation fic. 

Personally, I think his reasoning is silly, but that's just my opinion.  
I'm not arguing that Gubby's commentary is in any way valuable to me, 
because it's not going to help me improve WUE in any way, nor is it 
going to make me stop writing it.  I'm simply saying that it is 
commentary, of a sort, in that he is expressing his opinion of why he 
thinks WUE isn't worth reading.
  

Let's say I read one of Zen's works and went off on a tirade about 
how Akane and Ranma would never break up.  That really isn't C&C.  
That's an assertion of my world view that is thinly wrapped up as
an OOC critique.  I find that to be pointless, rude, and not in
the spirit of what C&C is meant to be.  Mind you, even if I disagree
with Zen's premises, I still believe his work to be worth reading,
just out of its quality and intensity.  

Well, whether I find Gubby's C&C pointless, rude and unhelpful doesn't 
enter into it.  

Any piece can be improved.  Not everything can be fixed.  Just as
I can't tell Zen to stop doing his thing, as it would take away 
the whole basis for some of his works, Gubby cannot tell people to
stop writing continuations.  He's entirely welcome to tell people
how to make them better, but he shouldn't tell them to throw away
their idea in its entirety.

Gubby never said I shouldn't continue writing WUE.  He simply said he 
thought it wasn't worth reading, purely because of the fact that it was 
a continuation fic.  

Now, much as it breaks my heart to discover that Gubby won't be reading 
WUE, the point I'm trying to make is this:

Gubby can tell people to stop writing continuations.  He's free to do 
that.

People are also free not to pay any attention to him at all.

Ciao,
-Alan Harnum

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