Fanon Discontinuity Definition Troubles

The last paragraph of Fanon Discontinuity contains this line: "Please only post examples of the fandom as a whole disregarding an event." Yet the actual examples list numerous cases where even the example itself admits it's extremely controversial. So, we either need to cut these examples or change these lines of the description.

Can I get an answer on this?

Many examples refer to a large portion of fans but not a majority of fans. There are probably very few cases where most fans dislike something enough to be Fanon Discontinuity, thus most examples refer to large groups but not exactly the entire fandom.

Okay, so the note on the main page should probably be rewritten. Maybe a note about how we only count "a significant portion of the fandom", and one about how just because a work has an example it doesn't mean its bad or that liking it is invalid.

Fanon Discontinuity, like most audience reactions, needs to be held by enough of the work's fan base that it forms a significant arguing bloc. In other words, in any conversation between more than two fans, someone should hold the view represented by the trope. Either that or the view should be memetic enough that it is known to most people familiar with the cultural context of the work.

If we don't hold it to at least that minimum standard, then the trope might as well say "every part of every work ever", just like every other subjective trope and audience reaction.

edited 9th Jun '18 3:28:01 PM by Fighteer

The problem is that how much this trope applies can vary across communities within the same fandom. What might seem a nigh universal opinion to some can be borderline unheard of to others.