This weeks question has an answer, and I really hope I can figure this out. It's one of my biggest pet peeves on the internet, and I really want to explore this phenomenon. It's a multi-part question to pay attention and make sure you understand the question(s) before answering.
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Fanboy: Not quite a troll, but someone who posts slandering something they don't like and giving props to what they like, whether it's right or wrong. This opinion/judgment has no rhyme of reason other than it's their preferrence.
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What causes fanboyism? I'm not talking about people who prefer one of two competitors, but to blatantly spout random nonsense about their choice which is obviously wrong. Also, do fanboys/girls actually believe what they say or are they just stirring the pot? They seem to make a life/hobby out of promoting/slandering certain products because it's 98% of their posts.
Example A: 2 performance cars being compared and Car A excels in every category, yet someone makes a post with their opinion that Car B "would smoke Car A, it's just all around a better car. No contest11!11lopllies". This is for the camaro/mustang debate among many other cars/comparisons.
Example B: PS3 vs. Xbox. "Xbox crap60! PS3 pwns!" "Suckstation 3! Xbox pwn3d it"
Part II: Why do people make redundant posts that make it look like they don't read threads?
Example: A thread is made about something, say an item in a video game which is obviously hacked/hex edited/etc. First person to respond says the item is fake/hacked. Second reply is the OP saying it's not, and asking how it could be fake. Third reply is another person explaining that it's got several characteristics that are solely allowed on different items, but not the item in question. Either the OP is a hacker, or the friend he got it from is a hacker.
Further down the thread, (replies 8-18 to be exact) ever reply says "item is hacked." "FAKE ITEMMMM!" "you're hacker, that item is fake" "item is obviously hacked, and your friend is cheating..." "FAKE!" "hex edited item, not real"
You would think that after the 3 reply, people would understand and not need to post redundant crap like that. Do people not read replies? Are they doing this to just repeat the first response for no reason at all other than to up their post count? What possesses people to do crap like this? Sometimes these replies are on the 6th, 9th, 23rd page referring to the original post. Any person with an IQ of 10 or great could guess that the obvious has been stated by the end of the first page... Not these geniuses.