Bashing: vb, hostile comment directed at a particular individual or group...

[The Only Real Estel]

Yes, that is rather an over-simplification of my view.

Sorry if it was too over-simplified, Sauce, but I had a very limited amount of time in which to create the thread so I didn't have time to look up a lot of threads on the subject. I did, however, remember you recently saying:

Essex is correct that listing things that you hate or dislike about the films is film-bashing.

in a film & so I used that to help me simplify things. Again, sorry if I over-simplified it too badly.

And even when backed up by sensible reasoning, when people make the same criticisms over and over again whenever the opportunity presents itself, I call that bashing. Or repeated knocking, if you like.

As Boromir88 mentioned, I think you have to define 'whenever the opportunity presents sitself.' If a new thread is created that I think has some value to it & it asks an opinion on a scene I've already talked about before, I'll raise the same criticisms again. Now if someone tries to hijack every thread by turning the discussion with a "that reminds me of this totally off-topic [of the thread] beef I have with PJ, let me redirect our conversation," that would certainly qualify as 'repeated knocking.'

just to add fuel to the fire: definition of bashing:
Quote:

bash (CRITICIZE)

verb {T}

to criticize someone severely:

By the way, I hope you know I wasn't trying to push my view with the subject of the thread...it was simply a lame attempt at being creative.