Originally Posted by moleymo:
“Can I offer some advice?
I think the "hate" dislike whatever of aaron on here is a direct result of some OTT worship of Aaron by some fans”
Originally Posted by
lisa1972:
“I think you maybe are in the wrong place on this thread purely because the more extreme fans arent here much, the people that post mostly on here are a pretty reasonable bunch and would probably agree with you
We may go a bit over the top on this thread at times but whenever ive seen the biggest posters of this thread argue a point they have been respectful and pretty reasonable”
... I have to say I agree with Moleymo ... I am an Aaron fan, an irregular member of this thread, and I have encountered problems with other Aaron fans out in the "real world" ... I was critical of something Aaron had said in the middle of a "winegate" discussion with another poster, and a couple of Aaron worshipers felt the need to butt in question my motives, and lay the blame for Aaron's mistake at every other housemate they could put in the frame ...
... these posters didn't seem to understand that while I would call myself an Aaron fan I can also find fault with him on occasion ... and because they'd failed to read the entire discussion and only came in at the tail end they took one of my posts out of context and it mushroomed from there, both posters really didn't want to hear my side of the story, and seemed adamant that I was an Aaron hater ...
... while I don't think they were abusive in their manner, I did feel really put upon, and could easily see how other forum members could be under the impression that Aaron fans are causing trouble in the forum. I'm well aware of the fact that it's not all Aaron fans (especially given that I am one myself) but as this forum has no avatars or signatures it's really easy to lump us all together into a group and assume that anyone liking Aaron thinks in a particular way ...
Very glad Aaron got the most votes this evening ... gives him another week or three to show the world how sweet and lovely he is, and gives us Aaron fans another week or three to show the forum that we can like Aaron without causing problems for the forum in general ...
... as a TripleJ fan last year I couldn't go out into the main forum as even though I had never gotten into arguments or caused trouble, everybody was (and still is!) dissing JJJ fans in pretty much every thread as a result of the issues that a minority of their fans had caused ...