How can such things have cults ? This was a fierece debate of ideas which should have been allowed to continue instead of people jumping in and spoiling the deb

How can such things have cults ? This was a fierece debate of ideas which should have been allowed to continue instead of people jumping in and spoiling the debate with personal attacks. Had this debate continued based purely on facts and best practices we would have had better ideas about bias for free. I just don't understand this behaviour. People are Yann LeCun "fans", people are PyTorch "fans" (such people also sent Francois Chollet hate mail), elon musk "fans" (if you bet against you are a bad person, wth). Just to be clear "fans" are not very smart people and just because someone likes one technology or one idea over another doesn't make them Yann LeCun or a great technologist or a pioneer. It just makes one an idiot. Great ideas should win or lose regardless of who said what.