I'm just a rabble rouser
Oct. 27th, 2005 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxHeh. I think I just got banned from a board... and it wasn't even TWOP!
Doesn't really bother me as I was just killing time that I shouldn't have been killing in the first place, but it does strike me as funny in that this is how the echo-chamber effect in fandoms is created. People on a board become convinced that their favored character/couple/storyline is the ubiquitous favorite... mainly because they ban anyone who dissents.
On one board mine is the opinion of just about the entire board. On another board, my opinion is so threatening that I must be banned (and it's the same exact opinion). Yet both boards are convinced that they are in fact the majority of the "real viewers" and that their desired outcome is direction the story is headed...even though neither board allows dissention. (Of course, I don't get banned on the board where I agree with the majority. The irony here is that the board I'm NOT banned on is TWOP.)
Doesn't really bother me as I was just killing time that I shouldn't have been killing in the first place, but it does strike me as funny in that this is how the echo-chamber effect in fandoms is created. People on a board become convinced that their favored character/couple/storyline is the ubiquitous favorite... mainly because they ban anyone who dissents.
On one board mine is the opinion of just about the entire board. On another board, my opinion is so threatening that I must be banned (and it's the same exact opinion). Yet both boards are convinced that they are in fact the majority of the "real viewers" and that their desired outcome is direction the story is headed...even though neither board allows dissention. (Of course, I don't get banned on the board where I agree with the majority. The irony here is that the board I'm NOT banned on is TWOP.)
