On Sunday, 27 December 2015 11:59:49 UTC, namekuseijin wrote:
> despite being a troll with a grudge against authors and sporting a huge ad hominem mace, I think he used to raise some interesting points about the validity of IF as a genuine medium for literature, or more often, its usual lack of merits thereof.
He did, at at his best he was interesting to read, but his idea of "literature" as applied to IF was highly destructive; he wasn't just critical of the works he perceived as not being good enough, he was activelly destructive, and didn't even acknowledge the good things the work did, or that in order to get to the literary IF he wanted so much there are intermediate steps we have to go through.
Taken together with all the bile, he's not someone the community needs. Poster, aka Ambershards, was a lot more useful, even if he was acerbic too - he was extremely critical and dismissive, but you could tell it was because he respected and admired the genre. Pudlo's rethoric consisted of him putting everyone down for not writing the IF he thought should be written.
Sure, if you're shooting everything in sight you'll hit a few targets, but you're obviously going to be shot back at.
Tell you what, though, just like a bad penny, he keeps turning up.