I agree that there a some over-the-top Wicked fans who are just really asking to be tared and feathered, but I find some posters who need to be constantly sarcastic and insulting towards them just as bad. No, I'm not talking about the people who occasionally post snarky comments towards them, but the ones who seem to always show up in the Wicked threads that they claim to be better than and hate so much. It seems that many of those people just try to make themselves feel better by picking on those fans. Not only that, but how many parody threads have there been to make fun of Wicked fans? Yeah, a lot of them seem to be asking for it, but are you really better than them when you make Wicked fan-bashing your routine?
IMO, the best way to fight against those threads are to make your own interesting topics to talk about rather than fueling the fire and raging a war on posters who are probably much much younger than you, if not in age, then in maturity.
That said, I think the original post in this thread makes a good point and everyone should take the advice.
"I've got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators and their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes
While you stare at your books."