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[telperion1]

Slate has an interesting article on the rise of the angry commenter on the Internet:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/roiphe/2011/12/what_s_wrong_with_angry_commenters_.html

This made me think: do you guys see fandom as having more, less, or about the same angry commenters than the internet in general? Are there differences between the two types? Why do you think that is?

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[ithilwen]

In my experience, fandom has a bit fewer angry commentators than the Internet as a whole - but for some reason, the flamewars which erupt in fandom seem to be much worse than those which break out elsewhere (which doesn't make much sense).