TomWeaver999 wrote:
Ditto.

Umpty-ump years of service to fandom + a comment or two that maybe kinda coulda been better thought-out = fandom pariah (in the minds of a few)?? WTF??

Fandom -- what a dump sometimes.
It's ... it's almost like fans are human beings, not (as we were assured long ago, at least in sf fandom) slans!