When you catch up, basically skip any post with the subject line "darkness across the water" or "Kanell". And there are plenty of them.

As for age, I don't know. Certainly the people I've met personally on ChildLit who were on the less attractive side of the dustup over there are people I know have been in academia for quite a long time. I'm not sure they are necessarily older than some of the fans, but they have certainly been thinking in the ways they been thinking for longer.