Is that in reference to the Leno performance? See, the thing is, you were actually 100% correct (something like that isn't a matter of opinion, it either happened or it didn't), but people still felt the need to rip into you for whatever reason. Considering the amount of effort you put into supporting everything that Meat Loaf does, that attack was entirely unjustified, and I went a little
after reading through all of that. It's not like you're the sort of person who waits for any opportunity to rip into Meat.
Generally, I don't think MLUKC deserves the bad reputation it receives. It IS positive for the most part. I don't think I've ever seen anyone outright attack Meat Loaf or anything he does, and if they have it's been deleted before I've had a chance to see it (which is good, because it shows that it isn't tolerated). Meat Loaf himself questioned whether this was worthy of being called a "fan club", and I don't think that's fair, because the people here are generally very positive and supportive. Sure, some people aren't always satisfied, but they don't exactly make an effort to start a feud with Meat over it.
BUT there are people who aren't happy with that, and feel the need to make sure everything is 100% positive, all the time. And that's when the whole bandwagon thing starts, and that's exactly what happened with the Leno thing. Rob said one thing - Meat disagreed (why, I don't know), and suddenly everyone was ripping into Rob. BUT...Rob was right. But because it wasn't 100% positive, people felt the need to question what was essentially a fact. Which blows my mind
A more recent example was where someone made a comment which (as far as I can tell), wasn't meant to be taken literally (quantity vs quality), and was in turn attacked. It wasn't an expectation or insult, it was just an idle musing. Considering that, I again don't think was entirely justified.
To take that one step further. You know what that reminded me of? George Orwell, in 1984, where people are led to believe that 2 + 2 = 5.
Long story short. People to respect other people's posts (so long as they're not pointless criticism), and not mindlessly follow others (or attack it themselves) because the initial opinion wasn't blind praise. People are going to say "but that's not true!"
but it is. It's not always a blatant statement that the person is wrong, but the inference is there, which causes hostilities. That's really all it comes down to. Freedom of speech is something that we're entitled too (so long as it doesn't cross any lines), but there are ocassions where this isn't evident. So long as people are respecting the fact that:
a) Meat is potentially going to read what you say
b) Despite a), you still have the right to voice your opinion (as long as you're polite
)
then that's really all that's needed to fix the problems
Just my potentially worthless 2c on the matter :)