User blog comment:AnnWatson/The Values of Fandom: Balance/@comment-27028473-20161115202415

Okay! I didn't get to the question, hee hee hee, long night! Examples of balance in our communities? Well, the communities themselves are quite fragmented as most of them shoot for the shoddy and over-ridden online zones with multi-distractions. (i.e. Facebook, no surprise, eh?) Still a little pocket somewhere has been good. It was based on canon pairings, or one unique one in particular. I want to open an email group for it so we can have more focus and less distractions, but I'm still working out the details.

Still, keeping to canon works for our community. We really crave the details to the original program a adhering to that knowledge of the characters. I see that with another show I'm using for mine, but for the big one it's the complicated romantic-pairing and enough talkative individuals getting the others less shy to discuss it and start having fun again. (I've had some super-bizarre fandom politics to work with. Super-bizarre.) So it's still slow going due to the further fragmenting of attention-spans now, but it's going. (And I thought attention-spans were bad in the 1990's! Yikes...)