I feel like people that don’t like TFA or Rogue One are being treated like trolls. There seems to be little distinction between users that have legitimate and clearly articulated gripes and people that bitched constantly and rudely about how they’re the worst things ever.
Perhaps the trolls are so loud that one’s (valid) argument against the films can in a way sound in support of the trolls’ (supposed) opinion? I think also, given the travesties that are the official prequels, that putting the modern releases below the prequels is difficult to accept or identify with.
Or perhaps people who don’t allow said distinction are also trolls.
It’s very clear when someone is trolling or being intentionally provocative.
Not always. Tone and inflection are lost in plain text. It’s not just what you say but how you say it, and the “how” can be lost or ambiguous when reading it. When you read a post, you add your own inflection to it in your mind which may not have been the inflection the poster used. Hence the confusion in conversations many have around here.