S:
"you should see how nicely a lot of the hate posts fade into faint background noise"
N:
"if what I said was indiscernable white-noise"
That looks like you have identified your own post as one of those I referred to. Well, I guess you know your own heart.
BTW, background noise and white noise are not synonymous. And you can spare us all your self-righteous lectures; to the small extent that anyone cares (I certainly don't), they do nothing but hijack the thread and add to the toxicity of the forums. Going forward, I'll be discussing the game and ignoring the background noise as well as I can.