Re: When did Dr Who fandom become so toxic?

On 2024-06-02 13:49:51 +0000, The One Who Waits said:

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.

The moderated forums tend to have a silliness that nothing can be bad. If you post anything "negative" / "toxic", then your message gets deleted, you get put in the naughty corner and eventually banned entirely. Often it is due to admins with massive egos who believe they're a God.
It's utterly ridiculousness to blindly believe that any franchise does not have its bad points.