I think you're both saying the same thing, but from radically different directions... How's this:
It's important to remember that Fenspace is a collective work - one person's ideas might for the basis of an excellent story on their own, but those same ideas might not fit into the Fenspace that has developed over the years. Nobody gets to smother someone else's creativity without a good reason, but "using creativity that way would smother someone else's creativity" is a good reason. We prefer people ask for feedback at an early stage of the creative process.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
It's important to remember that Fenspace is a collective work - one person's ideas might for the basis of an excellent story on their own, but those same ideas might not fit into the Fenspace that has developed over the years. Nobody gets to smother someone else's creativity without a good reason, but "using creativity that way would smother someone else's creativity" is a good reason. We prefer people ask for feedback at an early stage of the creative process.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012