Something Vali said in a comment somewhere reminded me

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Someoneshould write something called History Of Online Fandom: a chronicle of fandom and its wars. Cause dude, I'd so like to read that, and finally find out details about things like the big Homicide split, all the shit in Sentinel fandom, due South quarrels, stuff like that.

I'm a gossip. ^_^

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Sad but true....

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And as time goes by, people forget (or would really rather like to forget) some of those splits... or the fights loose importance... and the logic behind them gets forgotten. (Like the reason I left ff.net to begin with.... all I remember is that it was very stressful when I was already stressed out and that as Writers University (http://writersu.s5.com/) is now, life is much more happy (where that is concerned) and much less stressful. So if some one did ask, they'd have to dig through that, find old posts, ask people which might refeul people into being crass and mean in situations I'd rather not have them in and give those old problems as a reason to justify new hatred towards the people fights were directed at...

Re: Sad but true....

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But as long as either of the parties involved is still in fandom, a really big 'war' will still have an influence on people, and at least this way, there would be a place for newbies to go and get both sides of a dispute together.