Why so much animosity???

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Fudd

15-12-2011

Originally Posted by Abbasolutely 40:
“The X factor makes me laugh .Full of young kids and teens screaming " Dont you dare not like who I like " at each other .”

The most worrying thing is I think the Strictly forum's been worse than The X Factor forum this year (I post in both). Then again, Little Mix became over-whelmingly popular in the end so, in general, there was a consensus on who people wanted to win.

shefair

15-12-2011

may be that atm in this series there are Marmite characters left to the end where the Marmite characters left earlier on in x factors

winenroses

15-12-2011

Originally Posted by shefair:
“may be that atm in this series there are Marmite characters left to the end where the Marmite characters left earlier on in x factors”

I think that's a fair point

though perhaps one of them is more Vegemite? She says in an Australian accented drone

I like Jason btw and feel even Karen and Zoe are taking the pee out of his personality. That's Showbiz, I guess. Oh no it isn't!! (Getting into the spirit of panto for next week's Christmas outing.)

RichmondBlue

15-12-2011

Originally Posted by Cadiva:
“That's because, I've found personally, that smileys don't usually get used "correctly" or rather they're not used in the manner in which they were originally intended when they first started being introduced in message board software.
If I am writing something which is tongue in cheek, I will employ the use of the wink or the raspberry smiley. If I'm writing something where I am agreeing with a fellow poster over an amusing post or suggestion, I will usually use the basic smiley or the big grin one. I rarely use any other smiley.

As for the adversarial nature of debate, I think that's usually down to the type of forum. Anything which involves a competition is generally going to give rise to conflicts. There's rarely any vitriol posted in the Sci-Fi or US TV show forums as they're more often than not talking about things people all like. Even where there are disagreements, they don't tend to get anywhere near as confrontational as they do here on the SCD forum.

I moderated one of the biggest Sims related gaming forums on the internet for more than five years, we rarely had arguments there. I also mod a gaming forum which has been going more than 12 years, we only occasionally had arguments there and they're more often related to "real life" as we all know each other personally as well as on the internet having met over the years we've been gaming together.”

That may be true of those two forums, but I can vouch for the fact that it's not true of the UK TV forum. Try having the temerity to praise anything associated with Ricky Gervaise or James Corden (they appear to be two of the current pet hate figures)..you don't have to wait long for the vitriol to start coming, thick and fast. It's also far worse than anything I've seen written about any celeb on Strictly, I'm talking genuine hatred.
I'm not claiming to be blameless, I've had the odd "dig" at celebrities that I don't like..but real hatred doesn't come into it. Don't understand it myself.

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