Also, we haven't had a decent facepalming session in what feels like weeks ...
I think one major problem with discussion forums is an inherent bias. I mean, there's loads of games here which are just objectively incredibly bad (the technical term I think is "do not hit all of my personal sweet spots"). So I ignore them and their respective threads and focus on those of games I am interested in. So most people on this thread will see the game more favorably than the average conoisseur of perversions.
But yeah, flaws can be pointed out and questions need to be allowed to be asked without hostility from the resident White Knight Light Brigade (at this point I am ever so incospiciously and proudly pointing at my badge of the very same, three stars on it under a laurel leaf). And also the dev. And indeed it doesn't always happen. Since I do not know any of the threads mentioned earlier, I can only talk of this one. Here, sometimes criticism comes in a not very constructive way. Especially when people obviously are infatuated with a game but it doesn't update quickly enough, content isn't enough, or the story took a wrong turn and focussed on the wrong character. They tend to talk everything of the game down, not only the part they dislike, and that gets harsh criticism, and they tend to personally attack others who like this shit.
And that's when sometimes people go overboard with defending against valid criticism. It doesn't have to be correct criticism, just valid, i. e. making a point and explaining it. Then, when I disagree, I can defend the game. But I must change my tone from the one used towards the trolls and other insufferable excuses for the human race, that is true. However, the general trend seems to be - unfortunately - to take any criticism and/or disagreement personal.