I've developed several theories about the anti-spam / BIP-110 movement:
1) The entire thing was cooked up by Luke + Mechanic as a marketing mechanism to get free press for OCEAN and thus gain more ma...
I think part of it is people who are really committed to Bitcoin in some way, having invested a lot of their savings into it, and they have also been told something about them now having 'sovereignty' due to being bitcoiners.
When you combine that with the lack of technical expertize, they can get very stressed about not getting their way.
They want to contribute, as any human naturally would about something so all-consuming as Bitcoin! They know they can't really write useful code, and they're not game theory or cryptography experts, but they still want to find a way to contribute. So they are easily tricked into this social/morality war, and get very frustrated at their predictable lack of impact
On the plus side, I am getting a sense that - when I ignore the obvious bots - more and more of the humans are slowly backing down and calming down. I think they'll eventually learn something and will simply be embarassed - not angry - about how this pans out
When you combine that with the lack of technical expertize, they can get very stressed about not getting their way.
They want to contribute, as any human naturally would about something so all-consuming as Bitcoin! They know they can't really write useful code, and they're not game theory or cryptography experts, but they still want to find a way to contribute. So they are easily tricked into this social/morality war, and get very frustrated at their predictable lack of impact
On the plus side, I am getting a sense that - when I ignore the obvious bots - more and more of the humans are slowly backing down and calming down. I think they'll eventually learn something and will simply be embarassed - not angry - about how this pans out