Why are sci fi fans more mature?

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If you see many of the football forums on the internet you can see much unintelligible dribble and immaturity. I never see any of that on this forum.

What makes us more mature?
 
CmdrShepN7 said:
If you see many of the football forums on the internet you can see much unintelligible dribble and immaturity. I never see any of that on this forum.
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They don't read and are likely to get their news from Facebook meme pages.

Brian G Turner said:
Because we're a UK-based website that puts civility above all other considerations?
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Ehhhh. I've been on some boards with UK-based users, and they were absolutely atrocious.

Not here though :)
 
Do football fans read? and if not isn't their dialogue going to comprise solely of repeating what they heard at the match? which is generally atrocious.
 
Heh. Sorry. Just personal experience rearing it's ugly head I suppose. I've known plenty of smart football fans, but honestly none that read for fun (and many who looked at me in outright puzzlement when they saw me reading on lunch). Virtually without exception they happened to be massive gamers or heavy drinkers in their spare time.
 
I know some very unpleasant Sci Fi fans and very smart and erudite football fans - and I've seen how they act down the pub after a big match, yes. It's the team games effect - people really are better in smaller groups or one on one.
 
Well... As far as I can tell, people on here are actually more mature, as in older. Very different from, say, Tor.com comment threads. So I wouldn't say it's a matter of SF versus other genres.
 
tegeus-Cromis said:
Well... As far as I can tell, people on here are actually more mature, as in older. Very different from, say, Tor.com comment threads. So I wouldn't say it's a matter of SF versus other genres.
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That's my impression too -- that many of us here at Chrons are well into middle age, though I don't think people in their teens and twenties would feel unwelcome here.
 
We used to have quite a number of teenage members here but they either left for one reason or another or are still here but, unsurprisingly, over the course of the decades the forum has been here ceased being teenagers. Meanwhile, some of us who were spry youngsters in our fifties got really old.
 
This forum is not as polite as it likes to believe. It just isn't as awful as so many others are.
 
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