Quote Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev View Post
Nice! Now teach that skill across the board and the news section will be truly newsworthy
There seems to be this misconception that our news posts, or this site in general, is often or mostly, contaminated/spoiled by Bay or Movie rants.

I've now made sure that we have 30-40 Movie news topics started here per month since it was noted elsewhere on the board a few months back that we don't feature or promote the movie enough here, and the claim that we have a vocal majority or minority spoiling it for those who do like the Movie (or want to give this fifth one a chance).
Very rarely do I see any of these large number of Movie news topics, have a rant or criticism posted - with most criticism posts actually being quite rational, restrained or objective, usually referring to past errors and contradictions to prove their objectiveness. That's either because they've been bullied out of being able to express any rightful objection to plot holes and character flaws in past movies (to give us no reason a fifth one would suddenly have better integrity to its story and flow after four attempts)... or they have given up on giving it a fifth chance, based on what the last four were like (for them, not everyone).
In fact, I can't recall any recent unsupported ranting that stands out, so it mustn't have been prominent or backed up by a vocal minority/majority.

We certainly don't want to see people having a mob mentality by going on and on about the endless list of problems with the four past movies (just look at the long list of errors on the tfwiki pages), but it feels like censorship or bullying to not have any commentary allowed here, just because it might put someone else off liking the fifth movie before they've given it a chance.

Even the three poll topics about when, how, and expectations of the Movie were quite well responded and respected by the members here.

Any suggestion that there is a anti-Bay or anti-Movie sentiment or movement on this site, would have to be from looking for the 1% of posts that actually are, or from misinterpreting the objective and warranted comments being posted by people not actually attacking this movie.

(the dedicated topic for Bay bashing hasn't even been used in over a year... goes to show how insignificant it has become on this site)