Thread:Zakor1138/@comment-995426-20160702031939/@comment-995426-20160702044002

TMNT fans, especially long-time TMNT fans, tend to have a lot of baggage. It's much worse if you're a Star Fox fan or a Sonic the Hedgehog fan.

One thing you need to realize is that all literary criticism is acceptable, as long as it focuses on the work. Fans cannot afford to take offense because someone criticizes, dislikes or mocks a work of fiction they like, even right in front of them. It is just a vicious futile circle with no end.

One thing you may not have realized, is that not every TMNT fan is proportionally representative in the regular user base of this site. There are a disproportionate number of 2012 TV series and 1987 TV series fans. That is numerically logical, given there are a lot of fans of those series out there. I ask my Mirage and IDW fan (and even 2K3 fan) friends why they don't get involved on Turtlepedia. The answer is that there just aren't enough other fans here like them, and they find a lot of other kinds of fans too annoying to spend much time around. I decide to be here and remain here despite possible annoyances because of my editorial and critical ethic, and I know better than to directly insult users because they're fans of something. However, expressing criticism&mdash;even strong criticism&mdash;of individual TMNT works is permitted here, and Trigger009 will tell you the same thing. I don't criticize intentionally to offend any fans, because not only is it counterproductive for them to be offended, but occasionally I want to open some honest in-depth discussions from the perspective of a decades-long intellectual fan.