B7 fandom has also tended to be post-adolescent, and well-educated (formally or autodidactically), allowing space for a certain amount of thoughtfulness between explosions of one sort or another.
Interesting point, although I've been in some fandoms where age and guile have not prevented explosions. Unfamiliarity with basic netiquette on the part of main participants, and a large number of participants (making the debate impossible to follow fully) seem to have been the trigger for these explosions, if I was going to generalize.
(I have a feeling I arrived back in B7 fandom shortly after a couple of flame wars had fully burnt out, so at a moment when people were regrouping or newly arriving, and ready to engage in lively, non-hostile discussion.)
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Re: The Future's So Shite You Have to Wear Shades
Date: 2011-02-08 10:14 am (UTC)Interesting point, although I've been in some fandoms where age and guile have not prevented explosions. Unfamiliarity with basic netiquette on the part of main participants, and a large number of participants (making the debate impossible to follow fully) seem to have been the trigger for these explosions, if I was going to generalize.
(I have a feeling I arrived back in B7 fandom shortly after a couple of flame wars had fully burnt out, so at a moment when people were regrouping or newly arriving, and ready to engage in lively, non-hostile discussion.)