C3PX said:

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.

I don't know about "art" or "work" but over at FE.org, there seem to be noticeable hunk of the available edits that look like they lacked a high ammount of either rigor or forethought.

I dont think every edit needs a full length commentary track a la Phantom Editor carefully justifying and explaining each change, or a discussion thread 15,0000 posts long harranguing over every frame, but quite a few fanedits seem to be variations of "I cut the parts I didn't like" or "I added music from bands I prefer"