| Torillian said:
I don't view it as being about "benefit of the doubt" I view it as being about proof. You cannot prove a group to be hypocritical because they are not a hivemind. You can prove an individual to be a hypocrite if you find two contradictory statements from the same person, this doesn't work for a group. |
Could you correlate, if a few members of a group post the same negativity of something, couldn't you say that there is a form of bias due to either jealousy or conflict of interest? It's a known fact that certain gamers get jealous when what was exclusive against a console becomes exclusive to a console. The reason? Well, fanboyism. We've seen it happen before. Not that it's a bad thing, some people just want their platform of choice to outperform another so they can have a better ecosystem, nothing to go to jail about.
I'm not saying that's what's happening here, I'm just saying my reasoning isn't far-fatched. Though they aren't a hive-mind, they may have common interests that conflict with an event, causing their sentiments to match.
