From: CXMP <CXMP@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Re: listen up people
Organization: McGill University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:03:16 GMT

In article <BvGrtF.D42@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>In article <1af4jlINN4hf@uwm.edu> pjconley@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Pat J Conley) writes:
>> until you are doing a job like theirs for as long as they have
>> you have no right whatsoever to complain
>
>No one has the right to vote against any politician unless he thinks he
>can do better.

Now that's being silly.  Can we elect our comic creators?  No.  All we
can do is buy selectively.  We can't blame people for wanting to make
money.
>
>Movie critics shouldn't be allowed to write negative reviews unless they
>can do a better job than the director.

Actually, they shouldn't, really.  The best movie critics are people who
know enough about the movie industry that they *could* work in the
industry if not for the fact that they already had a job being a critic.
>
>I knew someone who died because the surgeon working on him was
>incompetent.  But, I can't do surgery any better than that myself, so I
>have no right to complain.
>
Well, actually, it depends on what you mean by "incompetent".  If you
*know* the Doctor did something wrong then you should complain but if
the Doctor did all that was humanly possible to save your friend then
you'd be very ungrateful and childish to *blame* the Doctor.

Let's face it, Matt did a terrible job expressing his point of view,
namely that a lot of bandwidth has been wasted with endless complaints,
so, as a result, the people he was trying to reach missed the point
entirely.  The fact is that people who complain without having anything
constructive to say are being very immature.  I'm not saying people
don't have any right to complain at all, I'm just saying that it doesn't
make sense to say that you didn't like the way something was done if you
can't suggest a better way.  Examples:

Immaturity: "Lobdell sucks!"
Constructive: "I liked the Claremont Files better."

Immaturity: "Harras ruined the X-Men!"
Constructive: "Creaters weren't being given enough freedom.  The idea
               of insisting that major story developments would centre
               on 'crossovers', at least one of which, i.e. 'The Fall of
               Mutants', was unforgivably artificial, was a bad
               idea which inevitably did more harm than good from any
               point of view."

See what I mean?  I know not all of us are going to have time to stop
and imagine ourselves as being editors but, surely, it is a matter of
common courtesy to put some effort into what we're going to write if
we actually expect people to read what we have to say.  After all, if
you don't have anything constructive to say, why bother posting?  I,
myself, prefer you send email whenever I have the slightest doubt as
to whether or not something is worth posting.

BTW, in an effort to save bandwidth I'm going to take the opportunity
to make a couple more comments:

To the Man (A Loyal Fan): you're starting to get annoying.

To the person to posted "information" coming from a "What If": you
really embarrassed me.  Please remember "What If" stories don't belong
to the Marvel timeline but are alternate realities at best.

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