emotionally vulnerable people + geek social fallacies.
the biggest example of geek social fallacies taken to the extreme was furry fandom, which not only enables a shit load of scumbags in and covers for them, but the obvious scumbags made it harder to identify the milder ones.
DWRP is no where near as bad as furry fandom, but the geek social fallacies show up in almost every nerd hobby and their existence and premise of 'acceptance' allow people to get away with a lot more than might be traditionally acceptable in public. Throw in the internet and the ability to drop and build new aliases at the slightest change in the breeze and there's a lot of room for repeat offenders outside the behaviour threshold of the GSF to continue because all the new identities are held to the GSF as well.
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the biggest example of geek social fallacies taken to the extreme was furry fandom, which not only enables a shit load of scumbags in and covers for them, but the obvious scumbags made it harder to identify the milder ones.
DWRP is no where near as bad as furry fandom, but the geek social fallacies show up in almost every nerd hobby and their existence and premise of 'acceptance' allow people to get away with a lot more than might be traditionally acceptable in public. Throw in the internet and the ability to drop and build new aliases at the slightest change in the breeze and there's a lot of room for repeat offenders outside the behaviour threshold of the GSF to continue because all the new identities are held to the GSF as well.