Hussar
Legend
I generally don't view someone stating their opinion as trying to enforce anything on others. Does this apply to positive opinions as well or only negative?
Not particularly. People who like things are generally simply positive - I really like X. You should try X. You don't like X? Why not? People who don't like things are generally negative - I don't like X. How could you like X? X is terrible.
Add canon into the mix, and it becomes, "I don't like the change to X. The change is bad because it is a change." Which, frankly, ends conversation. You can't really argue that it doesn't change X and, since the person isn't arguing against the quality of the change, but, rather that change is, in itself, negative, there's no real way forward. Canon arguments are simply a rhetorical trick for winning.
Where it flies up my nose is that canon arguments are always based on preference. 15 other changes are perfectly acceptable, but, because someone doesn't like THIS change, then change is bad.
