Personally I can't be bothered with defending something I'm a fan of most of the time. You can spend ages arguing with people about whether it's good or not and by the end of it, nobody has a different opinion and it just becomes frustrating. I'll only really defend something if I'm a huge fan of it.
edited 18th Jan '11 6:19:20 AM by Sphur
How do you prove that you exist...? Maybe we don't exist...Because disagreements spawn more discussion than agreements. A thread that consists of nothing but "X is awesome!" gets boring and dies pretty quickly, but if everyone's talking about their particular reason for why they hate X, then it can go pretty much forever.
I find myself having to fight against this tendency; I seem to comment a lot more on why I dislike stuff than why I like stuff. >_>;;
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.One thing I've noticed is that the vocal fans on this site are much less likely than the vocal haters to engage in edit warring.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulIt's because for some reason, people pay more attention to them.
And they devote more time to getting rid of what they dislike.
Kind of like people are more driven to getting rid of something than keep it there.
Troper Page@feotakahari: That's probably because a fan is contented simply by being allowed to spam their object of adoration everywhere, regardless of how many other things are present, while haters are unsatisfied as long as an opinion they despise is allowed to go unchallenged. The one exception to this is probably “best of” lists and other gushing related one-upsmanship, which turns typically innocuous groups of disparate fans into a writhing mass of apoplectic cobras.
For a fan, any hate is The Complainer Is Always Wrong. So topics with hate in them get tons of vitriol-filled fan posts, which just encourage the haters. Those topics are therefore always on top of the page.
Suck it, fans.
And edit warring is done when a vocal fan and a vocal hater decide that we can't have nice things.
edited 21st Jan '11 3:38:56 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.To my experience, it's what Griffin said:
And no, I never accept that ridiculous notion that fans are stupider than haters (or rather, that haters are less stupid than fans).
People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.Fans and haters are equally stupid.
But both sides can never be honest about it.
The idea that haters are more argumentative than fans is stupid as well. Haters don't get posts unless fans respond.
edited 21st Jan '11 4:16:03 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Rebochan, you forgot that I have the monopoly on lame comebacks.
That'll be ten dollars.
edited 21st Jan '11 4:50:57 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.I won't defend a series I like unless I want to keep it going even though it looks like it's gonna die. That way, I don't have to worry about it being severely messed up later on or having to buy installments that are on a system I don't have/can't afford to get/can't emulate.
Now posting as Enzeru, this serves as an emergency avatar backup account

Why is it that I noticed that haters are more vocal than fans? When haters are vocal, why are the fans not even bothering to counter? Why do they just keep silent and not let the world know that the object of their fandom is liked, not hated?