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Originally Posted by Mindz
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.
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As to whether they believe it, that will vary from person to person. But a major cause is the net itself. You can basically say or act however you want here, without real consequences. Sure, you might get your post deleted, or even banned from a site, but there's always another site to post on if all you want is to be an ass.
And it seems like way, waaayyy too many people just want to be an ass, or a tough guy, or pretend they're something they aren't here on the net. I've seen it here on this forum: a person disliked OnStar so much they stated, as fact, that it was listening in on a conversation of theirs, cut in, and asked them if it needed to call the police. 95% of people here will think "bs" and forget it, but a few people really will believe it, the paranoia spreads, and a good company suffers. Another example: here in this very section, some people were putting up pics of celebs they thought were attractive. So here comes Captain Assitude, stating, "OMG HOW OLD R U PEOPLE??? *PALM*" What was the point of that, other than to be an ass?
If you said, "Um...well, there would appear to be no other point," you would be correct.
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Part II: Why do people make redundant posts that make it look like they don't read threads?
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You answered yourself here a little. They may want to raise their post count, be seen, or maybe they HAVEN'T read the whole thread and don't want to hear what anyone else has to say about it, they just want to state their opinion. Or maybe it's more of a "poll" issue. If I say ____, that's one thing. If 50 people do, that's another. Lending more weight to an issue, maybe?