User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/What is fanon?/@comment-20644-20091026171040

@Nightmare - that first point is a pretty bad assumption to make, because it's basically assuming that only people that don't follow rules on other websites come to us. I would very much disagree with that without some sort of proof to back that one up.

@ITCO - I'd disagree that it has to do with the number of rules. That's more to do with member relations than it does having to do with people understanding that there are rules that need to be followed.

You guys can look around on talk pages and see NUMEROUS examples of people being confronted with rules only to say "I thought this was FANON where I could do whatever I want!" I'm not making up or misreading what I said in the first post. This is a trend. It happens over and over again. "Fanon" needs to be re-branded because it's very obvious people think it means you can do whatever you want.

That likely does have something to do with the age of certain users, but we also do have to keep in mind that there are some people who are 18+ (or so they claim on their user page) that don't realize this either. That indicates that "fanon" needs a re-branding so people start getting a new idea about it. Without that, the same thing will just happen over and over again.