It's not just limited to fandom either. I've run across this bizarre idea that the owner of a webpage should be able to control links to their page in a variety of "netiquette" discussions going back quite a ways. I haven't seen it crop up in years and I had always thought of it as a problem of the really early Internet, before people really understood the way the Web works (i.e. as a big series of links). I mean, it'd be like trying to stay off Google; if your page is linked ANYWHERE, it'll get spidered. If you're that proprietary about your stuff, WHY, for the love of cheese, are you on the *Internet*?!