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Originally Posted by khalleron
Every science fiction author I ever met, and I've met a lot of them, and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE, began writing as teens or pre-teens, and every single one of them began by writing Star Trek fanfic.
Now this was before the Internet, so they couldn't post them publicly, but lots of stuff got published in fanzines (remember them?), and then they went on to write in their own worlds, with their own characters.
Fanfic often is a training ground -where people learn how to and practice writing. If you kill fanfic, you're going to kill off a lot of potential writers. If you kill a kid's natural desire to write what he/she LIKES, you're going to kill off a lot of potentially good writers.
Harry, I'm calling you on the name-calling, too. If your arguments hold water, then stand by them. Resorting to name-calling is admitting that you're losing the argument and it's abusive. No way for a moderator to behave. Quit it.
We know - boy, do we know! - that you get emotional about copyright issues. But that doesn't give you the right to abuse people.
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Well-said and agreed on all counts!