I agree that fanboy type comments (I think we should separate what people say in the heat of the moment, from the person themselves) can be annoying. But I think the best thing to do is just ignore comments you don't find useful. Responding with snide and mocking comments to me is just operating on the same level as the fanboys, if not lower. It just becomes a pissing contest at that point.

And honestly, I saw at least one Droid vs N900 thread devolve into a debate about Google and I didn't consider it a flame war. It seemed like a heated debate about Google business tactics and the most obnoxious comments came from those who chose to mock people, who had a serious opinion about Google, not from the supposed "fanboys." But mainly in that case, it seemed like what happened was the thread got way off topic. That happens in a lot of threads here, for better or worse (this one included at this point). Just because someone goes off topic and has a heated opinion, does not make them a fanboy.

In the case of this thread, let's not lose track of the context of ysss's and another poster's remarks. I was posting information about the N900's phone application, which was part of the original poster's question. I was providing links to several articles by people with first hand experience of the N900, who in part discussed the phone application. And I was providing some summary of what they said. Another poster had a different view of the phone application and was defending that position. I don't know how that debate could have been more on topic and relevant. Then ysss and other poster chimed into with completely frivolous, mocking, snide remarks about "fanboys," "cake," and other things, that had nothing to do with what I was saying or with the thread up to that point. I really don't see how it was the "fanboys" bringing this thread down. Even ysss said he wasn't meaning to accuse anyone in this thread of being a fanboy (although it was certainly hard to tell). So in that case, to me, the only comments that were bringing this thread down were the snide and mocking comments. Turning the whole thing at this point into a discussion about fanboys, just ignores and avoids the topic of the actual substanceless, mocking, snide remarks that were bringing the thread down. The topic of fanboys was always off topic to begin with and just a gratuitous excuse to engage in snide remarks.

So I stand by my opinion, that snide and mocking posts are just as problematic as fanboys.