ohhh! Your comment made me ::lightbulb:: in that are you saying perhaps that LJ not only facilitates community, but *attracts* those that are willing to form a community and/or willing to open dialogue on their shows? Thus, it attracts those people who are actively looking for *fandom* and also allows for the free exchange of ideas that spawn the most discussion/meta/fic, more so (and possibly with better quality, because I know that I and several others have never had a beta before LJ made it easy to find one) than say fans working in isolation?