Stand Up and Be Counted

[kevin_standlee]

First ganked from debgeisler, this is a group that is trying to count how many LJ members consider themselves part of fandom.

Mind you, I suspect that there are a lot of mutually-contradictory definitions of "fandom" out there, but what the hey. There is already a five-figure count of members.

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[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Up until today, I had fandom listed as one of my LJ interests.

But I deleted them all and substituted "freedom of speech."

[nwl.livejournal.com]

I hadn't been on LJ for a while, life intervened, so I was unaware of what was going on. What was going on?

What is their definition of "fandom"? I was surprised as to me fandom is SF fandom which is literary fandom which is an interest of science fiction and fantasy. Who is defining fandom differently?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

How about fanfic fans? Gaming fans? "Media" SF fandom? Comics fans? Given that this brouhaha started by including a bunch of fanfic communities and people with an interest in them getting swept up in the net, I rather expected that the protests to be centered on those fanfic communities, even though some of them have but a tenuous connection to the fandom to which I belong. (But remember that I'm a comics and "media" fan, as well -- that's what I meant about "fellow travelers.")