This is a story from the long-long-ago, from the Golden Age of Usenet.
On the science fiction newsgroups, there was someone—this is so long ago that I forget his name—who had an encyclopedic knowledge of fannish history, and especially con history, backed up by an extensive documentary archive. Now and then he would have occasion to correct someone on a point of fact, for example, pointing out that no, events at SuchAndSuchCon couldn’t have influenced the committee of SoAndSoCon, because SoAndSoCon actually happened several years before.
The greater the irrefutability of the correction, the greater people’s fury at being corrected. He would be scornfully accused of being well-informed.
This is a story from the long-long-ago, from the Golden Age of Usenet.
On the science fiction newsgroups, there was someone—this is so long ago that I forget his name—who had an encyclopedic knowledge of fannish history, and especially con history, backed up by an extensive documentary archive. Now and then he would have occasion to correct someone on a point of fact, for example, pointing out that no, events at SuchAndSuchCon couldn’t have influenced the committee of SoAndSoCon, because SoAndSoCon actually happened several years before.
The greater the irrefutability of the correction, the greater people’s fury at being corrected. He would be scornfully accused of being well-informed.