Bingowings said:

An artist can create high art with a box of Crayolas, just because you have seen a lot of what you would describe as kids daubings doesn't follow that all wax crayon pictures are just scribbles.

I absolutely agree.

Many of the films edited are arguably not high art to start with.

What is high art anyway?

It's all 'work' (which is the originally meaning of art) no matter what qualities you see in it, even kids pictures are the product of effort.

I never claimed that the films they were editing were ever high art, I just said that they often (or used to, it has been a few years since i have even bothered with FE.org) seem to act as if their edits are high art.

I was never saying that fan edits are not "work" or "effort". I was just saying that, personally, I found the vast majority of them to be a waste of time and effort to obtain. What spawned Fink's offense and the continuation of this conversation was my comment that so many people have gotten into the fan editing thing that it has become a joke, like kids scribbling on pictures and suggesting that they are improving them.