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People that just hate, I don't have time for they thrive off of tearing things and people down and want everyone to be miserable like them.
I'm with you, but on the other hand--you kinda do have time for people that just hate--because you started the thread. You devoted the time to a thread on a messageboard that isn't THIS messageboard. So there's kind of the same sort of "having the cake and eating it" as someone saying "If you don't like it, don't watch it" and then saying "But if I don't like it, I'll re-edit it."
It's not hurting anyone, no. And to tell the truth, posts on some other messageboard that no one here reads isn't really hurting anyone, either. I doubt MagFan cares. He's "Best buds" with the LFL kiddies, what does he care that people are criticizing.
And besides--if you're going to put it out there, you have to be ready for the criticism, just like the people who spent the hundreds of millions to MAKE the movies expect the criticism and possibility of some dude on a messageboard making an edit on his home PC. I think part of what makes people react so strongly is that often, people here act as if this site is some sort of oasis from the insanity, but instead, it's just the same insanity, but refracted through a funhouse mirror. For all intents and purposes, MagFan has REPLACED Lucas on this site.
This is a place where, to use the horribly confining and simple terms used at other boards, "Bashers" can go to be "Gushers." Other people who don't understand that are going to react to the weird and contradictory nature of that, and they won't react positively all the time.