Flutherites: Do you like/admire some users and loathe others, even when BOTH may have views opposite of yours?

Flutherites: Do you like/admire some users and loathe others, even when BOTH may have views opposite of yours?
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I think that is basically the nature of human relationships, we would likely be bored if we could easily define what we like or dislike about everybody. There are people here I like a lot that I would cheerfully punch on some of these threads, and some with whom I agree about almost anything and everything, but whose very presences on this site irk the crap out of me. Same in real life.
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