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From: The One Who Waits <waiter@forever.more>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: When did Dr Who fandom become so toxic?
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 13:49:51 -0000 (UTC)
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solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote in
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> The One Who Waits <waiter@forever.more> wrote:
>  
>> It's full of maladjusted sociopaths who want everything to fall in
>> line with their personal bubbles, and they'll call anything outside
>> of that "stupid" and even become hyperaggressive towards it.  It's
>> not just the people who bash the show constantly (but it obviously
>> includes them), it's also those who claim to like the show but
>> gatekeep their own interpretations of it.
> 
> When? Some time in the mid-1980s. (The toxicity was just less
> noticeable back then because it was confined to fanzines and
> not out in the open for everyone to see.)

I'm glad we have an open forum like this, despite its issues.  Moderated 
forums, whether they're on social media like Facebook and Reddit or web 
sites like DWO or GB seem to just cater to specific subsets and cliques 
of these sociopaths and.weirdos.