You use that word a lot...

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Oh, yeah. That makes me think of something someone said a few weeks back about sociopathic fandoms, and not wanting to be in one. In regard to HP, if I recall correctly. Because actively denying the mechanisms of socialization and communal-will-expression just about sums up sociopathy, and there sure is some of that going around.

I wonder if part of the problem isn't telling which of the positions you mention the offender is coming from. Because I can see a lot of people writing off even an attempt at chastizement as not worth it, if they think that most of the offenders really are... well, abusers that way. Really are taking advantage of the virtual environment to deliberately be cruel and malicious.

*wry* Yay, fandom, indeed.