They had a thread about how steampunk is not like punk. It’s punks respectable older brother or something. What they like, they all say, is that steampunk is the ethics of punk, but in a more polite way with rules of etiquette.

I like steam metal - that’s similar to metal in that it has the metal ethic but sounds almost exactly like a Beyonce CD.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2009/1/23/11853/9106/13#13