I've run into the type in other venues -- politics, pop culture, you name it: always they start cresting new divisions of whatever it is they're into, divisions that turn out to be utterly useless and a pain in the rear to deal with.

In the case of science fiction, they seem to have forgotten, or never knew, that the main purpose of reading the stuff is to get plesure out of it, not start a movment from it, nor spend hours and hours deconstructing the whole thing. I've been reading hard s-f since 1953 and love it all (well, with some exceptions), and writing it since I was 7 years old, and I can't imagine living in the tedious little world so many of these "fans" dwell in.