They seem to take it personal if someone like myself says that I prefer the Arx A1's over the Axiom M2/M22's.
Don't lump the whole board in as "they". I suspect that there's a bunch of us on the sidelines who aren't invested in being either "a fanboy" or a "troll". Once those labels get thrown out there, I move along to another thread. Life's too short to suffer pettiness - from either group. I read a lot of these posts and find myself thinking, "So what?" and moving on.
What I
do care about is having an online community that I like to belong to, to check in with for laughs and helpful info. As long as everyone keeps their posts within an admittedly gray zone of socially acceptable behavior, I don't raise an eyebrow.
- edit - in the time that this sat unsent on my desktop, tomtuttle summed up a lot of this in his succinct post.