The conversation is worth a read, though it's a bit all over the map. A couple of different fandoms are specifically mentioned, but the discussion is relevant to comics fandom by and large. It wasn't a topic I explored too heavily in my book primarily because I didn't want to focus on any one sub-set of fandom. But it does tie in with a discussion of cultural capital. That is, s/he who has the most often finds his/herself a BNF. But, as I also point out in my book, quantifying cultural capital isn't really possible. Which is where that discussion heads off into.
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Further down into the topic, one poster notes that "one person's BNF is another person's nobody." Which is a completely valid point, which also speaks to the notion of cultural capital. Cultural capital is worth nothing to a member of an outgroup -- put another way, what you know about comics isn't worth jack to someone who doesn't care about comics!
I might suggest anyone interested in the topic could read my chapter about it online. While the examples are obviously comic-centered, they're easily adaptable into other fandoms. In fact, that's one of the reasons I put the book online for free: so that anybody could read up on the subject easily and (hopefully) have at least one other perspective when in the back of their head when they're discussing it.
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