Potentially - I love the way you have of inverting questions - it does make me think about other angles and potentialities.

I guess the Fandom is a mix of people and it's not fair to describe its heart was being based on the sycophantic or the ostrascising. I accept that for some, it is, but there are a lot of good people in the Fandom too. Perhaps I should just accept that my friends seem to like me for who I am and the others (the sycophants and the ostrascisers), well, I'm not too fussed about what they think anyway.