I think what the counterpoint crowd, to your POV Josh, possibly have that you don't, is the perspective of being treated like trash by staff/administrators at Rebelscum... Some indirectly perhaps, others more directly... Some for no reason, others for reasons brought on by something more visual and rowdy on the boards there...
I think while your counterpoints are cool for your perspective of things... If you're a guy who's banned simply because you asked for some honest answers to legitimate questions, or if you got banned because you were affiliated with the wrong place (and never got so much as a note about it from the people responsible, but instead got the "cleanup" email from someone else on staff who had nothing to do with it) , then your opinion of the site and who runs it is bound to be a bit lower...
For a loose analogy it's kind of like people who speak out for or against something specific because they have direct experience with said topic, while others maybe don't give it a second thought... Or perhaps feel those speaking out about said topic are "overzealous" in their beliefs and make too much out of perhaps "nothing".
Maybe a good analogy that's specific could be those "Truth.com" things on the TV that speak out against tobacco companies and stuff. I haven't ever had anyone in MY family die of lung cancer from smoking... I don't have many smokers in my family I can think of off-hand even, if any, so smoking's just not something on my radar...
So I'm one of those guys that says I've seen enough of those Truth.com commercials, I'm sick of hearing people whine about cigarettes and that Tobacco companies need to be more responsible because at this point if you don't know smoking kills you then you're braindead already...
I'm really not looking at it from the POV from a guy who is widowed because his wife died of lungcancer last year, or someone who lost a parent or sibling from smoking and how they were "drawn" to that habit and whatnot by marketing and pushing from Tobacco companies, etc... I'm simply looking at it from my mostly smoke-free life where I've had nothing "happen" to me.
Now that's just an analogy of course... But a pretty accurate one I believe. It's all about your perspective.
I don't think anyone "minds" you liking RS, Josh... So that's not even at issue, and if it is that's their problem not yours. I think what it comes down to though is that people now are quite positive how you feel and that's fine... So when they make their crack about RS or what they did they don't want you to let them know that you think they're "childish" and that RS is still AOK by you... They know that.
So any humor they found in something, they're also sure you won't see it through the same glasses.
I think that sums it up.... I think.
