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I was attempting to explain something, not claiming that nobody should ever be allowed to disagree with things.
I still disagree. Going through the pages, there are evidently only a few instances of people getting into "arguments". Like 70-80% of the posts are just dunking on it or requoting/reposting a previous joke/dunk. I don't understand why you seem to be trying to "pin"/"blame" the page count on people "defending" the game--because I notice you've made more than one posts trying to paint the people defending the game in a negative light.
The length of the thread itself does not bother me, so I'm not really "blaming" in the sense that it's a crime that needs somebody to be arrested for. I haven't done complete statistical analysis of the thread, so sure, maybe I'm slightly overestimating the fraction of posts generated by the combination of people defending or arguing. It is of course also ironic that this discussion we are having is further bumping the thread and generating more responses!
As to your second comment, I do certainly believe that a large fraction of the arguments have been waged over points that are sometimes nonsensical, and often underpinned by a logic that makes distasteful assumptions about people. Or is just outright insulting people but without specifically quoting or naming them. It's therefore difficult for me to treat these with much respect.
I don't mean people saying "I don't have a problem with it", which is a totally valid opinion.
...I feel like this implies people shouldn't be having these concerns, for some reason.
I wrote the list because the core of many such posts was assuming that the people dunking on the topic of this thread - the writing in a specific TV spot - are actually either hypocrites of some form, or have various ulterior motives for doing so. Sometimes this is directly stated, sometimes it's just insinuated, but whatever the case it's making sweeping generalizations about why people "really" dislike it, implying of course that they shouldn't and their stated reasons are bogus. Again, ironically, this is what you have also said I'm doing!