I agree, "Heresy" sounds so hurtful, that a sock in the crotch would feel pleasant.
First, please tag the page you want to talk about. And thread titling was disabled for a reason.
"Trolling" sounds even more attacking here. Also, it is misleading - it's about a lone dissent and not about provocation/being an annoyance
"Heresy" refers to the way the rest of the fandom often reacts.
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Heresy seems appropriate. Appropriately hyperbolic. This isn't a page about lone opinions. It's about lone opinions so controversial that they arttract accusations of blasphemy.
Fandoms are often stupid, and this is one of the more common ways they are. I feel "heresy" conveys that pretty well, honestly.
The examples could certainly use a once-over, though.
I think heresy is fine. It captures the fight over trivialities and also works with 'canon'.
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Septimus is right, "trolling" implies the person is being deliberately contrarian to rile up the fans. I think "heresy" is fine, once you put yourself in the modern mentality that it is actually, at some level, a compliment. Even strongly dogmatic churches hardly ever use it in the old sense. Nowadays it has connotations of being willing to defy convention and thinking independently; and the real condemnation it implies is for those who cannot accept it. "Minority opinion", asides from being longer, doesn't get the point that fans react as if such an opinion is an affront to the fandom.
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That's a damn lie! Heresy is more hurtful than anything!
edited 9th Jul '12 5:34:31 PM by efcargot
I sense a flame war going on, and these flame wars may get tvtropes shut down 
Fandom Black Sheep? Or maybe Fandom Outcaste? Actually I see nothing wrong with Fandom Heresy, but perhaps some people are more sensitive to religious terms?
edited 9th Jul '12 5:52:51 PM by kundoo
RJ Savoy, at least "Minority Oppinion" isn't as hurtful!
Did anybody ever tell us "Once a Dirty Word, Always a Dirty Word"?
Hurtful isn't a bad thing. We're describing an extreme attitude, not suggesting an attitude to take. Fandoms ostracize dissenters, accusing them of blasphemy. It's ridiculous, and it's excessive, but that's how it is.
Current title is fine.
Trolling usually means the troll has neither the popular nor his stated opinion, and is most likely not a fan at all.
The Internet misuses, abuses, and overuses everything.
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Precisely. A trope about ridiculous and over-the-top behavior is perfectly justified in having a ridiculous and over-the-top name.
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Yup, this is a standard term; there's no reason to change it. It's not like we invented the term. Anyone who thinks they may be hurt by terms like this would be advised to avoid all forms of fandom.
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efcargot and geewhimpers are the same guy, agreeing with himself. What a moron.
edited 10th Jul '12 12:17:00 AM by FastEddie
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The word heresy fits fine. Do not use sockpuppets to push a personal agenda.
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I feel that the word "Heresy" is a hurtful word, especially when someone likes something that many fans dislike.
When a person like such stuff as Batman And Robin, or Saban's Masked Rider, or anything underrated... or hates such stuff as Power Rangers In Space, Kill Bill, Soul Calibar, The Dark Knight Saga, or Saber Rider And The Star Sheriffs, that person isn't being a Heretic, he's being an individual.
I would recomend the name Fandom Trolling, as people who make disputes of fandom are Trolls.