Ghostcrawler (former Blizzard developer, currently at Riot Games) had a nice quote about this one: "Almost every time I have gotten to know a critic personally

Ghostcrawler (former Blizzard developer, currently at Riot Games) had a nice quote about this one: "Almost every time I have gotten to know a critic personally, they keep up with the criticism but lose the venom." I believe it is related to de-personification on the Internet (or otherwise written content). In a smaller community, such would not happen. I also wonder what would happen to the amount of haters if there were no fanboys at all. In a way, they balance each other out. As for why famous people? Famous means influence. Whenever a non-famous people gets criticized it won't be read much. Doesn't mean it does not happen.