Do you think HP is the worst of them all- by size and (lack of) sanity?
Hard to say if it's the worst or just the loudest. There were nuclearly bitter fan wars in the old pre-Net days, that veterans would tell me about of a night, bragging of their scars; but if you weren't in that loop you never heard of them. Maybe some fandoms are still like that, hiding bloodthirsty vendettas from online snoops.
The size is the thing. HP is so huge you can be part of the fandom and never hear about the HP massacres. But the bigger anything is the more wackos it attracts and, well, see the wackos wacking. My own reaction to it all, aside from hormonally boosted despair for the human race, is The Man for All Seasons one: 'But for Wales, Richard?' All this fuss about the paper thin and quite unconvincing characters in Rowling? Shinjirarenai.
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Hard to say if it's the worst or just the loudest. There were nuclearly bitter fan wars in the old pre-Net days, that veterans would tell me about of a night, bragging of their scars; but if you weren't in that loop you never heard of them. Maybe some fandoms are still like that, hiding bloodthirsty vendettas from online snoops.
The size is the thing. HP is so huge you can be part of the fandom and never hear about the HP massacres. But the bigger anything is the more wackos it attracts and, well, see the wackos wacking. My own reaction to it all, aside from hormonally boosted despair for the human race, is The Man for All Seasons one: 'But for Wales, Richard?' All this fuss about the paper thin and quite unconvincing characters in Rowling? Shinjirarenai.