User blog comment:Serza5/Elitist/@comment-5176734-20140517035634/@comment-53539-20140517094157

^Your post in particular highlights the main issue of "when" does a person stop being a "noob" or "veteran" in this fandom.

The Vocaloid fandoms divided between producers and listeners... This is where my major concern for Vocaloid elitist lashing out at noobs makes me fear the consequences. It can have a negative effect. Thankfully, you seemed to have quickly over come things.

I got tolsd off on VO a few months back for presumptions on the state of the Vocaloid fandom. And in the early V3 era I got lashed at for saying the Engloids are still suffering.

In the first case, I've come across so many fans who still have the mindset from 2007-2009, that I'm pretty sure that the critism I got was uncalled for. If you stick around sites like VO, or here at the wikia, all you see is 1 section of the fandom. Th3e wikia caters for less then 5% of the fandom every day, thats what I calculated a few years back, so it might be different now. Basically though, that 5% are the ones willing to look up. We get a couple of thousand visitors a day. VO forums gets a couple of hundred at the most... So they count for less of the fandom then we do. There are a couple of million fans though... Which means what we see daily isn't a majority representation of the fandom and our judgement are based on a minority group.

Ditto, its the same situation for my comments at Engloid bias still being there.

When you don't cater for hte majority of the fandom, you don't know the bigger picture. The majority of the fandom, regardless is Japanese.

IT also makes the whole issue of elitism rather silly because whatever our elites takes are, we've got less overall access to Vocaloid data anyway then a Japanese fan potentially has... So a veteran "elite" fan in our half of the fandom bragging to a noob is kinda funny, if you ask me. :-/