User blog comment:Serza5/Elitist/@comment-24840832-20140516123933

Agreeing with Angel I, too, think that correcting people is actually the duty of the experts if what the other person said is factually wrong. It's all about the tone in which this done, if you ask me. For example, on a lot of youtube videos people will ask if Vocaloid is an anime. Ignoring the inherent stupidity of most of these kinds of comments stemming from the fact that one could very easily just google the names/song titles in the title (or sometimes reading the describtion is enough), you can pretty much expect LOTS of mean comments about what an idiot that person is. That's not okay. Calmly explaining everything to them, however, is and is much more likely to motivate the person for the fandom.

tl;dr If you are being friendly and (mostly) polite you can basically correct everything.

It's important to respect the opinion of every person but telling them more about everything and engaging in a bit of conversation with them nicely will enrichen their experience in the fandom (by knowing more Vocaloids, for example) and will give you some peace of mind for decreasing the idiot population.

As for the sarcasm, I react pretty sarcastic, too, if I feel like someone is just being really stupid, kinda "weeaboo" like and I've had to deal with that a lot recently, it's only natural if you want to enjoy your fandom but have to deal with the vocal, stupid minority (I hope it's the minority...). Perhaps you need to take a little break of talking to those kinds of fans and calm yourself down a little to make your glorious return with newly refreshed spirit and lots of sparkle.

I don't think just that makes you elitist so long as you actually try to inform people of everything rather than just belittling them for every small mistake and not even giving them a chance.