Originally posted by Jmanghan
What you're asking for is unrealistic, as everyone is a fanboy of something.I understand it getting annoying when someone praises you constantly for your superior arguments (Not really, to be honest), but to say you don't like fanboys is stupid because everyone you've ever met in your life has been a fanboy of something.
Just as well, you can't say any specific person isn't a fanboy of something, because you can't crawl inside their brain and fins out for yourself, your best friend could be a fan of "My Little Pony" for all you know.
Just wanted to point that out real quick.
There is a difference between being a fan of something and being a fanboy.
A "fan" likes a person, a fictional universe, a franchise, a story, a book, a series or a movie while seeing that it has flaws here and there and accepting that it is not perfect. You can discuss with a "fan" about the things he likes and while he will probably toss logic and reason out of the window here and there, in order to defend the things he likes, he will probably not totally go apeshit insane because you told him that the [enter likeable stuff here] that he likes, is not perfect.
A "fanboy" does all the above but takes it to insane levels. Even a modicum of critique in the general direction of the thing he likes is answered with Defcon-2-worthy remarks that can and will go beyond all reason and logic. Even obvious errors in judgement will either ignored or glossed over, even when they are pointed out repeatedly and there is nothing one can do to sway such inviduals.
And while I like a lot of people that fit into the category "fan", I find interactions with the "fanboy" category pretty useless, save for entertainment purpose.
Originally posted by Jmanghan
I also came across this little gem.Your hypocrisy is showing.
"Let me lord my superior debating skills over you, but don't acknowledge or notice it, and no compliments, either!"
There is a rather destinguished line between noticing and acknowledging a good argument and:
1)
Asking me for my personal acknowledgement / opinion regarding every post you make.
2)
Using me as a straw man, to either make your own (rather stupid) arguments look better or try to get points across, that I've never made.
3)
(Badly) Immitating my general behaviour or current antics in a fashion, that makes me want to facepalm.
4)
Necromancing threads that have been dead for decades (months? weeks?) just in order to leave a "Uh. Nai roxx!"-message at the end.
All of which I find especially cringeworthy, since I usually lecture people on doing their own damn thinking, instead of blindly following some people on the internet. Which means that I'm not only the most ironic choice for a figurehead, but also implies that the people who label me their "hero" either don't understand much of what I usually "preach" or don't want to understand it. With both options warranting my distaste.