If you don't mind, I'll take this as the nucleus of a Fenwiki article... but not immediately.
Another thought: Some of the FIJAGH folks are Up, but a supermajority of them are what Fenspace calls "Generalists" (not to say all Generalists are in the FIJAGH crowd). Many of them are what the FIAWOL crowd identify - rightly or wrongly - as "Fendane." They still care about fandom, but their families and careers are more important to them.
(Thus we avoid the extremes: if "everybody's a generalist" in the Fenspace sense of the word, then that 40%-of-the-population is far too small; if everybody who's expressed an interest in one show's fandom is part of the matching faction, then that 40%-of-the-population is far too large.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Another thought: Some of the FIJAGH folks are Up, but a supermajority of them are what Fenspace calls "Generalists" (not to say all Generalists are in the FIJAGH crowd). Many of them are what the FIAWOL crowd identify - rightly or wrongly - as "Fendane." They still care about fandom, but their families and careers are more important to them.
(Thus we avoid the extremes: if "everybody's a generalist" in the Fenspace sense of the word, then that 40%-of-the-population is far too small; if everybody who's expressed an interest in one show's fandom is part of the matching faction, then that 40%-of-the-population is far too large.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012