It's not a plot, seriously.
So I have been watching the latest, as they call it, pseudicide. I mostly have stayed on the outside (with one particular spectacular engagement because this person hit several illogical fallacies that really annoyed me) because it's not really my fandom and while I did actively read in it, I was never really participatory. I'm MORE in it now as a
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"YOU DARE QUESTION ME ASKING FOR MORE INFORMATION WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING??"
or the more prevailent "Where is your proof for disbelieving" and it's very hard to get across that your proof is your 10 years in online fandom watching real and fake pleas for help and/or money to people who simply won't believe.
It's not that people who ask the question are all "J'accuse!" it's that most of the time they're all "Hey, can you clarify because right now you're sounding a bit fishy. No offense if not, I'm terribly sorry, but for everyone's benefit especially yours, you might want to clear some stuff up" which isn't all that unreasonable and in the case of someone talking about a genuine problem in a bad way HELPFUL to them so they don't sit through wank while going through all their other crap.
So in summation: After a while you start to see patterns and if something hits a pattern you want to make sure it's not hurting or defrauding anyone as those things are BAD. But people don't understand seeing the pattern, the first step as proof of any kind.
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