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I’d have to go back over the last 20 years. And when I did it last time and proved it to you—you just dismissed it. Everyone knows that’s how macbots are, so I’ll just let everyone’s experience speak for itself.

No, for-q. You've never proved it, because you cannot. I have actually done that survey in a systematic method and posted the results on FR with links to the threads and individual posts as raw data so my work could be checked.

I did a sampling of 300 Apple and 300 Windows threads on FR going back over years, more time for Windows because there were fewer Windows threads. I counted number of attacks, whether they were attacks on the platform, company, or personal against users or specific user. I also subjectively rated the attack as to mild, moderate, or virulent. . . and had some friends who were impartial rate the comments for those ratings.

I found that the sheer number of attacks in Apple threads outnumbered attacks in Windows threads, regardless of severity or target by 19 to 1! Severity was off the charts in the Apple threads on percentages of virulent and moderate compared to Windows threads. . . where the most likely comment was "Get a Mac," or "you should have bought a Mac." Targets of attack in the Windows threads were almost invariably the PLATFORM, while in the Apple threads the attacks were 66% targeted toward the users with the mildest insults being "AppleBots", "Stupid users" etc. . . and escalating from there. Attacks targeted to the platform included such things as "Toy computer," "Fisher Price toys for children who don't know how to use a real computer" (that's a compound attack) etc. . . and many that I could not even categorize because they had been zapped by the moderators for misbehavior, but were obvious beyond the rules of polite discourse for FR. Very seldom did I see a zapped comment in a Windows thread.

As I stated, these were all linked for anyone to look at the original threads and comments. Of course, I was attacked by the Windows users for even doing the survey. . . and some of THOSE comments were zapped.

I still maintain that you would be VERY hard pressed to find an insulting personal attack on a Windows user in ANY Windows thread, because the vast majority of Apple Mac users have BEEN Windows users.

Therefor, the challenge still stands. Find those attacks anywhere NEAR the level of vitriol you Apple Hate Brigade members spew in the Apple threads. I don't care if you have to go back twenty years. . . I don't think you will find it.