loccer

LoC (“Letter of Comment”) +‎ -er

loccer (plural loccers)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A fan who is a prolific writer of letters to periodicals.
   • 1980 February 16, Wayne, Taral, “The Taral-Torial Imperitive”, in DNQ‎, number 27, page 1:

     Recently, Gary Farber circulated a one-sheet zine to stir up some activity in the FAAn Award committee. [...] He wants to know [...] 3) whether the Best Loccer can be dropped,

   • 1995 February 23, Fiona Anderson, “Re: Peeve concerning feedback”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet‎, message-ID <793565273snz@intersec.demon.co.uk>:

     Actually I enjoyed them a lot, but I'm the world's worst loccer - too much else to do (fannishly), and the passivity of being a reader sets in if you don't loc immediately you get an issue.

   • 2012 April, Runte, Robert, “Left Over Pieces”, in Broken Toys‎, number 2, page 13:

     I don't think Rotsler ever intended his illos to be taken as high art any more than the average loccer intends one's commentary to be deathless prose.

• epistolarian, letterhack

• corcle