i guess i missed the "magical" part of the sci-fi board.
in fact the very mention of it makes me shudder.when i first got into the show a few years ago that god-awful board was my first experience with fandom and i'm surprised i didn't jump ship right then and there.talk about trolls!
i also have very good reason to believe that some of it came from within.one night i e-mailed the sci-fi board's administators and suggested that they might perhaps do something to control the level of hostility that was overtaking the board at the time.
needless to say i didn't get a reply but the very next day i began to receive very disturbing/obscene e-mails from unidentifiable sources.since my e-mail address was never posted there i can only assume that someone who worked at sci-fi had a hand in it.it got so bad that i had to block all e-mails for several weeks until it stopped.
then i was lucky enough to discover this "magical" board and i never looked back.
but as for the sci-fi board good ridance.