TwoP was the only QAF message board site when the show started; its major function was to provide a space for people to bash bad tv. However, since it was the ONLY place in the beginning, "real" fans joined and tried to have discussions praising the show and actors. Perhaps naturally we fans in turn were bashed by many TwoP members - AND the board admins permitted the nastiest of bashing while remonstrating with fans who fought back. And you cannot imagine the heights (depths) to which B/J versus B/M fights rose (sank).
--Speaking as a fan who bashed back, and was banned (twice) from the board.
When TwoP closed down the QAF threads, some of us more vocal fans - myself,* noxin, justvisiting and a couple others started Refugee ( http://qafrefugeeforum.yuku.com/bqafrefugeeforum ) as a place for fan discussion of the show. Other fan sites started up also, including (yes, believe-it-or-not) B/M sites. This was all before LJ existed, of course.
Added: By the way, Camper did the recaps the first two years, and she basically liked the show and was fair about the good-bad-ugly. Therefore she was replaced by the admins with someone who would be "more appropriately" critical of QAF.
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Date: 2009-04-11 12:51 am (UTC)--Speaking as a fan who bashed back, and was banned (twice) from the board.
When TwoP closed down the QAF threads, some of us more vocal fans - myself,* noxin, justvisiting and a couple others started Refugee ( http://qafrefugeeforum.yuku.com/bqafrefugeeforum ) as a place for fan discussion of the show. Other fan sites started up also, including (yes, believe-it-or-not) B/M sites. This was all before LJ existed, of course.
Added: By the way, Camper did the recaps the first two years, and she basically liked the show and was fair about the good-bad-ugly. Therefore she was replaced by the admins with someone who would be "more appropriately" critical of QAF.
*I was then known as Flibber T. Gibbett.