@Meg I'm going to have to disagree here about the 'fairness' factor.
I am speaking broadly here, and I am also speaking as someone who will absolutely fight tooth and nail for people and projects I believe in. (Read: I empathize strongly with the drive you are describing.)
I'm one of of those people who hates the use of ANSI in descs and truly loathes ASCII art on M*s. Despise it. Hate it with all of the hatey hate hateface I can muster. I've banned it by policy on my projects because I find it unpleasantly distracting and inappropriate for a descriptive text medium, and often enough, have run across people who have more serious (visual problems) issues with it than my primarily taste-based and philosophical ones. Do I have anything against folks who enjoy it or think there's something wrong with them? Not in the least. Different tastes, different strokes for different folks, etc. -- life goes on either way. (I would consider something like an art gallery or bboard or similar thing for this specific purpose fair game for something like this, admittedly, and think that could actually be pretty neat.)
I felt no need to comment about it in regard to a game I don't play on. It is in no way my business in that case and frankly, I have very little energy to bother with most things lately. However, that will rarely stop anyone from commenting about something on the forums, for better or worse. (Lord knows I've commented plenty re: random things on games I don't and wouldn't play on, usually with why, would expect the same on threads for my stuff and have seen precisely that -- and I consider that entirely reasonable for people to do.)
There are reasonable times to rush in to defense. There are also considerably less reasonable ones. I'd call this the latter, for one reason: "Ugh, I don't like <whatever>!" is not a demand that something be considered wrongfun -- and to insist that it is so is to declare something wrongthink, which I, personally, find considerably more distressing on a number of levels. People are allowed to not like a thing just as they are allowed to like it, or you are not simply going for 'live and let live, leave people alone to enjoy their kind of fun' (which is a positive goal) and hedging much closer to 'how dare you state your dislike for something other people like, you're bad and you should feel bad! It's now all right for someone to jump in your face and attack you!'.
Not everyone is going to enjoy everything, and that is also OK. In an ideal world, people would be polite in conveying their lack of interest or dislike, but that's not how things tend to go down all the time (or even often, really). When it looks like somebody can't handle that without exploding into a frothy attack dog? I don't think I'm the only one who notices, and it's (unfortunately) not the good kind of notice.
It also comes across as being entirely closed to criticism from where I sit -- and I don't actually believe that's true of any of the people involved here, so that's something I consider a bit worrying. Does it look that way? Sadly -- no snark intended, it's distressing to say so, especially since I hold @Apos in fairly high regard -- it is coming across that way at the moment. Which I don't think is intended. And it's precisely because I don't think it's intended that I'm saying anything at all. (I wouldn't bother if I thought y'all gave none fucks. I know you do, and that a great deal of work has gone into this. That has big respect from me and I don't want to see that effort hindered by something this dumb.)
All in all, someone can have a two dozen kickass qualities and still have two or three that, to put it as tactfully as possible, could use some work. (That's something that is doubtless true of absolutely everyone on these forums and I do not exempt myself at all.)
Accepting the existence of the not-so-awesome things does not diminish the genuine quality of the kickass ones, and turning a blind eye to the traits any given person has that could use some work serves no one's best interest. The bad isn't a disqualifier -- but the good doesn't make the bad a non-issue, either. The bad still needs examination and probably some work, and the good still deserves praise and encouragement.
People have been more than fair to @Kanye-Qwest on these forums, just like they've been fair to me when I've gone attack dog defense mode in a very similar way. Actually being fair does not mean it gets hand-waved into nothingness or not called out for what it is. Ultimately, that does someone an enormous disservice, especially in the long run.