Here’s the problem with your thread as a whole: This statement.
Essentially you’re addressing a specific group of people, but you can’t say which, how many or who it is exactly. You simply leave that to self-identification.
But at the same time, you’re oversimplifying the concept. You’re turning “Mercy mains” into a buzz word that has now been so frequently overused and overexploited that people’s reaction to your thread is just going to be instinctively negative because they know from the moment you said “Mercy mains” in a negative context, it was just going to be unsupported claims.
There is literally no point in addressing general statements. The devil is in the details. For example:
- I’m a Mercy main.
- I love the changes that have come recently, especially the new buff.
- I feel like Mercy is a capable main healer again now since she gets her ult much faster and it’s strong enough now to actually heal during heavy pushes, but she’s no longer so overpowering I don’t have any reason to switch to Ana or Moira.
- I don’t care about Reddit.
- Reddit is full of circlejerking.
- The problem with Reddit is that because you can downvote threads, things that are unpopular gets erased from view and therefore you only see mainstream opinions.
- Mainstream opinions are an appeal to authority and not an argument in itself. They are frequently factually wrong and misinformed.
- But at the same time, this forum platform has the big issue that being controversial is the best way to get a big thread going. You were never going for a healthy discussion. You wanted replies more than you wanted to present a strong argument.