I'm in the minority here, coming from Europe, which means I often don't get a chance to respond in a meaningful fashion to threads that develop "overnight".

I will usually take time to read the thread, work out whether anyone else has already asserted my point of view and then let it lie if I feel I have nothing to add.

With that said, I'm off to a meeting in 20 minutes and I feel absolutely compelled to respond here before that, so apologies in advance if I'm stating an obvious point that's already been raised in the many responses to date.

So...

Absolutely none of the comments you have quoted in ANY WAY show hatred towards single boxers. To suggest that is entirely fatuous.

They show disdain towards the ignorant individuals who insist on persecuting us for our choice of playstyle, and continually insist that Blizzard - who make the rules - are wrong.

Nobody here has ever attacked anybody for putting up a well constructed argument about how multiboxing gives an advantage, and why they think - in their personal opinion - it should be banned from the game. Quite the opposite in fact. We have many, many individuals here who respond tirelessly to such posts.

PR is a big part of what we do.

My comment in particular:
'Wow! It's been a while since I've seen such a jumped-up, self-important windbag have that sort of impotent, foot-stamping rant on the forums. Very entertaining.'
Relates to a specific individual who was presenting himself exactly as I describe. He blustered about some ridiculous and entirely assinine plan to start a class action suit against Blizzard because multi-boxing is unfair

He obviously never intended to actually do that, because people who are serious about such things quietly get on with it rather than talking about it on the support forum for the company against whom they are plotting!

It was a cynical attack on multi-boxers and he was properly shut down in short shrift by the people whose job it is to look after the community.

For every quote you have repeated - and for the many that you have not - there is a similar backdrop. We don't hate single-boxers. In fact, we don't really even hate the stupid people that we often talk about here, because they give us a good laugh.

So, please, don't come here with out-of-context quotes and try to make it look as if we are in some way persecuting the single-boxers, because absolutely nothing could be further from the truth.