My flist friend lilapaddy (who writes very impassioned and well-thought-out metas) has posted a sad commentary on online fandom. To her (and to anyone else in similar straits), I can only recommend my more recent adaptive behavior strategy -- if a fandom comm/list starts looking dicey, get out of wherever you are ... if it starts looking like the whole fandom is overrun with jerks, well, time to gafe. Perhaps once all the good fen have vacated, the trolls/bullies/wacks will get bored and move on. A good example of this may be found over at svufiction (after most of the decent writers had been driven out by a handful of bullies, all that remained were the bullies sniffing and chortling about the "drama queens" ... e.g. victims who fight back, victims who don't fight back, victims ... I add this to make the point to certain trolls ;) ).

Till then, I serve as lilapaddy's amen corner.