Thread:Shinneth/@comment-1416490-20170605134147/@comment-901090-20170605192344

Heheh, I'd say calling it a "debate" is a bit of a stretch... :P My policy is that if one cannot debate without slinging insults at the other party/parties - or any actual real-life person for that matter - then they're not fit for debating at all and need to take a time-out in the "Grow Up" corner before trying to debate again. ;)

Insulting fictional characters is still totally okay in my book, though. They are fictional, after all. :D And I diss plenty of characters I like, even. If I ever do it, it's catharsis for me. Venting negativity from real-life BS into sometthing that can't be hurt is infinitely better than taking out said negativity on some poor, undeserving soul that's likely to be a friend or relative. Which, of course is why I can't help but get annoyed by anyone all-out white-knighting their precious favorite character, all the while having no problem verbally abusing real people that just happen to disagree with them.

Y'know, I haven't seen invovled in the TD fandom as much as others these days, but I suspect there might be this kind of problem to this day to some degree. Ahh, double standards. Then again, I guess this wouldn't be a proper TDW community if we didn't live up to that name. XD Still think we'd be not even close to the most vile, mean-spirited fanbases out there, at least. I can think of about 3-5 fandoms that'd trump our drama, easily.