I am of course speaking of the WGA and now SAG. And yes my fan sites & content are suffering horribly and have done so for over a year. But I almost never get wack comments or emails now from truly disturbed Vincent D’Onofrio fans (they’re off bugging people who constantly update their VDO sites with the latest info). And I like to think I’ve grown as a person and as a fan. Somehow the crazies in fandoms don’t quite seem as bothersome as a certain group of entertainment industry executives who are [still! argh!] hiding behind the AMPTP.

Going off-topic from my sites, I’ve had the great fortune to make friends with lovely people from other fandoms and compare notes on fellow fans who stand out in a not-so-good way. They’re everywhere but they’re for the most part managable.

Marvelous series BTW! Thanks for posting it.

For about 8 or so years, I had one posted on the site who was a bit on the edge of the crazy, but really hated one particular sect of the fans. It happens. Just because you like Stephen Colbert doesn’t mean you have to like John Stewart, right? Well, suffice to say after years of being helpful and useful, he started to slip the line into weirdo crazy, such that people were complaining to me. So I shot an email to my ‘sister’ site and we started to talk about it. They had complaints too.

After talking for a while, it was obvious to us that there was only one solution, and we banned him from commenting or editing on either site. He had full access to view the site, but his IP and email became blocked.

I try to run a Shiny Happy Place too, but sometimes the community ‘dealing’ is to just leave, because they see your lack of action as assent. I didn’t publicize what I did. I emailed the person in question, CCing the other mods, and left it at that. Slowly, people started to inch back and now we’re back to normal, with a little less tension.

The other thing I did was edit my comments.php file to include a reminder of the comment policy right then and there, with a little reminder ‘You are not obligated to reply to every post.’ Sometimes people lead a little nudge.