no, i haven't really talked much about it, but i've heard it from quite a few people since i've started becoming more active.
i used to lurk for so long b/c i wasn't writing and when i finally started to interact, i realized that i myself and many others never saw me as a "true" fan. and various folks have confirmed that belief.
look, for example, at multifannish people who discuss fandoms in which they *are* and others in which they merely read.
i think one of the problems is that while there are plenty of readers only, not too many of them are that active or in the "public" eye, i.e., think about your flist and how may folks don't write...
[then again, the entire writing thing is amusing, of course, b/c i always say i don't write while i "write" for a living, of course...or make that *not* for a living :-)]
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i used to lurk for so long b/c i wasn't writing and when i finally started to interact, i realized that i myself and many others never saw me as a "true" fan. and various folks have confirmed that belief.
look, for example, at multifannish people who discuss fandoms in which they *are* and others in which they merely read.
i think one of the problems is that while there are plenty of readers only, not too many of them are that active or in the "public" eye, i.e., think about your flist and how may folks don't write...
[then again, the entire writing thing is amusing, of course, b/c i always say i don't write while i "write" for a living, of course...or make that *not* for a living :-)]