Vee's Not-Quite-Law: Unfortunately, fandom is full of stupid and insane people, because fandom is full of people.
Fandom is full of the people who succumb to junk mail offers and click through on email spam and call the 900 number at 2am in their underwear, to say nothing of the people who steal out of their coworkers' office drawers and grope strangers on public transit. That the LJ setup makes it easier to be an asshole is kind of a surprise -- don't they asshole-test these things? -- but it doesn't surprise me at all that fannish assholery goes on.
(And, as others have noted, it's even gotten boring: the same crazies in Supernatural fandom keep perpetrating the same assholery, and after awhile it's like, "Haven't I seen this? A meelion times before?" I'm just grateful that they get F_W'ed regularly, because it allows me to construct a reasonably current Blacklist of Crazy, with whom I know not to correspond.)
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Fandom is full of the people who succumb to junk mail offers and click through on email spam and call the 900 number at 2am in their underwear, to say nothing of the people who steal out of their coworkers' office drawers and grope strangers on public transit. That the LJ setup makes it easier to be an asshole is kind of a surprise -- don't they asshole-test these things? -- but it doesn't surprise me at all that fannish assholery goes on.
(And, as others have noted, it's even gotten boring: the same crazies in Supernatural fandom keep perpetrating the same assholery, and after awhile it's like, "Haven't I seen this? A meelion times before?" I'm just grateful that they get F_W'ed regularly, because it allows me to construct a reasonably current Blacklist of Crazy, with whom I know not to correspond.)