People who have negative opinions of things you clearly like often found those opinions in experiences you are unaware of. My opinion on Imgur involves eight years of context, remembering pre-Imgur Reddit as well as Quickmeme, watching Imgur rise and fall, observing the psychology of i.imgur.com leading to upvotes of Reddit, knowing a pretty religious Imgurian who goes to meetups, etc.

However, because I disagree with you, according to you I reacted to a TechCrunch article; there's no better way to get me running to share that opinion than by poisoning the thread with the assumption that naysayers are misinformed or oblivious.

Assume people are informed and you'll end up on the right side of disappointed when they aren't, instead of being embarrassed when they are.