Fanboyism, good or bad?

        I'm starting to get really annoyed with fanboys. I have this little thing of sending PM's to what I think are fake accounts here on N4G. I find it interesting to see how crazy these anonymous people can get. But I think my little game is really starting to get to me, I am losing fate in the gaming public in general, how can we let this happen? This is my most resent discussion with one of these personas, and I do understand that it may only be an act, but the wrong young one, who just comes to a place like this might get sucked into this kind of madness, and it scares me. It can only get worst...

I must explain that what I usually do us I call out duplicate accounts and ask for either a PSN or a Gamertag. I am not loser, I have a loving wife and a good job with a good circle of friends, but this is a social gaming site, the idea is to socialize with gamers right? Or so it is what I would think it is at least. I have had good discussions with people that I have attempted to call out, and I always retract my claims when I am wrong. Here is  the fanboy wall I hit that made me want to vent about it in a blog...

[NO_PUDding]

That guy is an awful example of a minority.

I am a PS3 fanboy, so don't generalise. I am passionate about Sony and their products becuase they have never let me down, and they tend to be the most original and innovative around. I believe they are playign catchup on the online front, and that is fine with me, becuase taht is not creativity. But I will be passionate when I am told Sony aren't original, or Microsofts first party is better than Sony's. And I will still stress to you, I am a fnaboy, even on these rather fair grounds.

Really, you are just whining becuase you had one encounter with the scum of this site and the internet. I'd suck it up and get used to it, becuase it's not getting worse (it's always been this way) but it certainly won't get any better.

[Montrealien]

I guess my "whining" is more about the anonymous thing, on web sites like this we have to find a way to make sure people are accountable for their comments. I like N4G and there are good playstation and xbox enthusiasts, I know this. But the anonymity needs to stop, we need to find a way to make people accountable for their comments. That is what is getting out of hand. I do believe it can get better.

I have faced people that think like his in real life at my store, some take it really seriously and they where are molded in places like these. It ain't good. At least I don't think it is and there are many like the example I gave, and no, it has not always been that way, sorry, at least not from my point of view.

thx for the response.

[NO_PUDding]

You are right, it hasn't alwasy been that way, but before it was the PS2 and the Xbox and before that it was the Dreamcast and the PS2.

But the internet was tiny then. And this is kind of a natural evolution, as the internet has become the mianstream, the idiots gettign their views out have become mainstream.

It's natural. It's like a nice quiet town used to be just that, until the huge mall was set up there, and now there's all sorts of riff-raff.

Anyway, plain analogies aside, I think the anonymity and liberty the internet brings is superb. And I think taking that liberty and anonymity is the obvious next step for companies, so they can understand us in a marketing sense, and so that we can be policed easier.

So it will only get better from here on out, but if you don't need your posts policed, why should they be? I'd prefer make the fair comments I do, and yet have the liberty to express an extreme view every now and again.

[Kyle1212]

Wow, that was awesome.
Great work.

=D.