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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by jerf on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:15AM (#21006266)
"The fans are so adorant of their object that they often overlook glaringly evil deeds."

This verges on the tautological though, given that "fan" is short for "fanatic"; you're complaining that fanatics are fanatics. Well... yeah, but so? I don't think you can directly impute the behavior of the fans on to the target of their fandom. (You can draw some indirect conclusions, but it involves at least a few steps of lower reliability and propositions people will find debatable.)

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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by icebraining on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:47PM (#21007209)
> that "fan" is short for "fanatic"

Eh, that's its (probable) origin, but I'd say the two have diverged in meaning; "fan" nowadays doesn't have the same connotation of extreme and uncritical zeal of "fanatic."

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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by jerf on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:40PM (#21008558)
Hence the "verges", rather than simply saying it "is". It's as close to a complaint about it as you can get without quite 100% being there.
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