Predictability is comforting, in a way

So. Back on Oct 28th, a new author came appeared at Liagiba's thread on what not to do in fiction, and made a long attention-whore post to plug his story. Namely:

In the fic I'm writing (check it out if you want) my trainer starts out with three Eevees (which he rescued, and I've written off the whole Professor giving trainers pokemon, limiting it to something a couple of Professors do in their own home town, not the exclusive way of becoming a trainer. Read it if you want to know more.;)) and I don't plan on him catching another pokemon for at least another year (in the story, not real life). I also hate fics by authors who don't use proper spelling and grammar. I've had to stop reading fics that had potentially good plot lines and characters purely because it was such an effort to read. I don't really care when technologies and other things, and even old things which are expanded upon in the fic, aren't given some kind of scientific reasoning, but it is preferable, and it's something I try to do. And I don't really like it when authors interrupt their stories with their own comments about what was going on. It's a relatively minor issue in my opinion, but still, save comments for the start or finish of a chapter, please. And I know people have already said what I've said in this thread. I guess I'm just looking for an excuse to plug my own story, which really is great, if I do say so myself. Why don't you read it and tell me what you reckon?;) Oh, and my story is much more structured and fluent than this ramble, I assure you. Oh yeah, and I don't like it when the main character is invincible. My one is quite talented, and is very lucky to have three strong pokemon. As a result, he's lost far fewer battles than he has won, but he is by no means freakish. That's all, until I think of some more.

I consider reviewing. I decide not to - after all, he didn't explicitly ask for reviews even if it was an obnoxious plug. The discussion proceeds. The topic of varying OT fic comes up and I agree it's a great idea with one exception, overage trainers. He wrote an overage trainer, so obviously, proceeds into the fray. We argue for a bit before he bows out.

He promptly reappears on my forums, where he manages to piss off Anoh with his first post. I use the novel "third man in a brawl" strategy of trying to distract them. There's some circular aggression about Bush. It goes on well enough until he decides he needs to plug his story again. This time outright asking for reviews.

I still don't review, but I do tell him to knock it off. I also comment on an odd statement of his where he says he knows his characters are gary stus, but it's deliberate.

Now, back on the first thread he claimed to be new and later admitted he had no idea how common and sueish eevees were as starters. If he's realized how sueish three baby eevee, one with shiny coloration, who his character finds in the woods after their mother is injured, is, he hasn't said so. In other words, I find it really odd that he'd know about sues beforehand and could be doing in deliberately, and say as much. It doesn't help that when I read the story it seemed haphazard.

He sticks to his story that it's all intentional. He goes on to say they aren't really gary stus and directly asks me for reviews.

So to recap - I avoided reviewing the first two times, and I stated the second time that I was "nicely" not reviewing. I've just gotten through a long detailed argument with him. He's referenced the fact I'm a harsh reviewer. He outright asks for criticism.

And the third time, I review the story.

So of course, it's perfectly understandable that I get back( this )