but it's *not* 500 communities out of 13 million. It's 500 communities out of a sub-community of 20,000 give or take, which were you to compare it to say 500 people having a building fall on them in a town of 20,000 would give a more realistic analogy for the impact this has had on fandom. Sure, some of the people shut down were "pedophiles" (maybe -- i mean i have yet to hear anything more than that the alleged pedophiles were allegedly swapping stories which may or may not have been made up) -- the reason fans are so upset is that a significant chunk of fandom had the building fall on it and the rest of us realized we were living under the same shoddily constructed shelter.

rrrgh. sorry to rant -- I just get more and more annoyed the more I read.

to say that they incidentally singled out a community within the overall LJ nation.