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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Trolling and fanboyism extends far beyond camera forums (however I must say it seems to be more prevalent with things like cameras and cellphones than anything else I have seen). 99% of the trolling/fanboyism I see is gear related. It's all the confirmation bias IMHO. Someone spends their heard earned money on something, they will defend it, especially if it is deemed inferior in a public environment by someone. Megapixels don't matter until your brand has the most, or who needs full frame until of course your brand gets into the full frame game haha. It goes round and round. Everyone wants reassurance that they have picked the best 'team', for lack of a better term.
Try telling someone who just spent $20K on brand A that brand B is better for X reason. It won't matter what you show them, even if it's objective data, they will defend their purchase vehemently. Most people have significant investment in camera gear, and the cost and effort involved to switch systems is not small.
If you think FM is bad, go look at DPR haha. That place is an almost entirely un-moderated disaster and being a gear forum, the amount of posts that degrade into brand bashing or fanboyism is astonishing. It got so bad they had to remove their "down-vote" system, because so many people abused it by down-voting any comment made by an individual they didn't care for like a bunch of 5 year olds. So many highly respected contributing members left because of what that place was reduced to. We have it pretty good here, and a far higher percentage of members have valuable contributions to make IMHO.
I'm actually not a huge fan of Ming's, and I think the guest comments about fanboyism being linked to self confidence issues are strange. I think it has almost everything to do with people wanting justification for their purchases. Just my opinion of course.
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