Okay, I'll concede that Morrissey is a very divisive character, maybe THE most divisive in modern music, but I don't know of anyone who became a fan because of his withering put-downs, or the way he slaughtered Gary Numan while reviewing his single for Smash Hits. Generations of teenagers never cried themselves to sleep reading his interview with The Face, or nursed their first broken heart by watching his turn on Eight Days A Week.
It's always anonymous posters who cause all the acrimony on here. This is an information/fan site for Morrissey, not an open forum on general music. It's like if I, as a Celtic supporter, walked into a Rangers pub in Glasgow, wearing a mask so no-one could tell my identity, then started shouting abuse about Rangers or their fans, I would(quite rightly) get my head booted off it's shoulders. Not because the Rangers fans are nasty thugs, but because I've acted like a complete bell-end deliberately antagonising a bunch of people minding their own business, just because I disagree with them.
Most of the Morrissey/Smiths fans I know either on here, or in 'the real world', are the absolute salt of the earth, without exception. Morrissey concerts I've attended have been utter celebrations, arms around each other, swaying and belting out the words(admittedly all the concerts I've attended have been in Scotland, so I don't know if it's a peculiarly Scottish thing), never any violence or intimidation.
And yet....for 26 years we've had to tolerate, virtually EVERY DAY, people who don't like Morrissey(to put it mildly), or his fans, and we have to suffer this parade of anonymous melts firing off insult after insult after insult. Admittedly it's nowhere near as bad as 2002-2006, when the level of racial, sexist and homophobic insults being blanket bombed over the site, always by anonymous Morrissey haters, or sometimes just mad f***ers who had nothing better to do but hang around a website you didn't have to log into and had no security, went into overdrive and caused the whole redesigning of the website.
And when we bite back, they all start to act hurt, or defensive, and call us the Bad Guys!
Get a f***in' reality check!