Fandom? Board of Directors? *snort* Someone even tries to set themselves up as a fannish BoD, and I predict it's five minutes max before wank explodes. Then about two minutes for someone to make the first fandom_wank post.
Well, true; but it would be fun to watch :-)
The problem is that without it, FL is somewhat justified in their incomprehension regarding how to address the concerns of hundreds of individual fen, all demanding individual replies.
I think you might be in the minority on the social network thing, though. Most of the people I know are in fandom for the social network, and the fic (and other things, like icons, vids, meta, and such) are an intrinsic part of that social network, not a goal in and of itself.
Yeah; I suppose I'm probably weird in minority as far as the social network being a byproduct of the fanfiction and not the other way around. Maybe this is more common in a book fandom, although certainly there are large sectors of the JRRT fandom where your model would be more applicable than mine. In my experience, though, valued social contacts do spring from interaction within the fandom, though the ones that endure tend to be those which can survive the transition to a broader set of interests.
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Date: 2007-05-26 08:10 pm (UTC)Well, true; but it would be fun to watch :-)
The problem is that without it, FL is somewhat justified in their incomprehension regarding how to address the concerns of hundreds of individual fen, all demanding individual replies.
I think you might be in the minority on the social network thing, though. Most of the people I know are in fandom for the social network, and the fic (and other things, like icons, vids, meta, and such) are an intrinsic part of that social network, not a goal in and of itself.
Yeah; I suppose I'm probably
weirdin minority as far as the social network being a byproduct of the fanfiction and not the other way around. Maybe this is more common in a book fandom, although certainly there are large sectors of the JRRT fandom where your model would be more applicable than mine. In my experience, though, valued social contacts do spring from interaction within the fandom, though the ones that endure tend to be those which can survive the transition to a broader set of interests.