I'm with you on this up to a point. And the point for this was where Jonathon wanted a discussion, when actually what he wanted was to sit at a table at the back of the pub with his friends bitching about how crap everything is and how nothing gets done and he's being oppressed.
I have a real issue with people moaning loudly about the need for change and inviting a discussion and then getting upset when they get it. Fans are hardly unique for displaying this kind of behaviour and I must admit it does feel like an age related thing.
But then, I'm fairly sure there was a panel on 'The Greying of Fandom' on the programme of the first Con I went to 20 years ago, and I suspect that there were similar panels on convention programming 20 years before that. And yet, here we still are.
I don't mind that he doesn't want to do conventions, I would find purely online 'fandom' a little antiseptic myself but you don't get to moan about how convention fandom does things and how weird it is and still get to tell them/us what to do to please you.
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I have a real issue with people moaning loudly about the need for change and inviting a discussion and then getting upset when they get it. Fans are hardly unique for displaying this kind of behaviour and I must admit it does feel like an age related thing.
But then, I'm fairly sure there was a panel on 'The Greying of Fandom' on the programme of the first Con I went to 20 years ago, and I suspect that there were similar panels on convention programming 20 years before that. And yet, here we still are.
I don't mind that he doesn't want to do conventions, I would find purely online 'fandom' a little antiseptic myself but you don't get to moan about how convention fandom does things and how weird it is and still get to tell them/us what to do to please you.