gwern comments on Do Fandoms Need Awfulness? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 14 February 2012 06:14:57PM 4 points [-]

What confuses me here is the use of 'convention'. Yes, Shakespeare has conventions. (So does Joyce. So does Wagner. I bet so does Bach.) He has had hundreds of them, if not thousands. His hometown's economy is apparently built on them. It's just that we don't use the word 'convention', we use synonyms like 'conference' and 'festival'.