Part of the distinction comes into play with communities, and when you combine very picky readers with ambiguous community guidelines, sometimes people get angry about the classifications used... like the people who only consider a fic slash if it contains graphic sex, or the people who want to see warnings for mention of het ships in an otherwise slash fic, or people who only want to read canon ships with no mention of anything else.
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Date: 2006-03-22 08:54 pm (UTC)short answer: people are too picky.