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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
If your goal is to have a conversation, you'll have to accept that there will always be some "hopeless cases" on all sides.
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But that's what Eragon is saying. Since you can find those kind of people on both sides, you can't really put all the blame on one or another.
The kind of behavior you described is certainly wrong, but sometimes there are people that simply express their criticism and yet some angry fans do not see the difference and threat them like they are obnoxious party poopers. The "cycle of us vs them" can happen regardless of your critical attitude, when you deal with people that don't want any criticism at all. You can say "well you shouldn't be baited by that", true, but once again this still works both ways.
Answering to a flaming closed minded angry fan isn't any more wrong than answering to a flaming arrogant basher.
To make an example: I have once been insta-flamed after a review of a work that I considered
near perfect. I just mentioned two flaws.