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Do you think it might be something to do with how eager the people on those sites are for a fight?
Certainly. Upon a moment's reflection, it seems obvious that websites are easy to troll if they have lots of people with self-identities that can be assaulted. I guess what is strange to me is that people form such a sensitive identity-affiliation with their preferred tech brand and non-belief in deities.
Wired.com is a great example. All you have to do is mention the words "Microsoft" or "Apple" and within 5 minutes the comment threads become a ridiculous flame war between entrenched camps making the exact same arguments they've made a million times before.
I'm trying to popularise the term Pro-Skub to generally refer to someone on the other side of a trivial but heated dispute.
Unfortunately I'm pretty confident that somewhere out there is someone trying to popularise Anti-Skub for the same purpose.
sixes and sevens, your comment is unnecessarily inflammatory for this forum; please use a less heated example. Nobody here wants to get into a skub debate - leave that for the bars.
You can't make the Skub issue go away by simply ignoring it. That's exactly the sort of tactic Pro-Skub folk use to protect their otherwise indefensible positions.