you (and several others commenting) don't appear to grasp what a 'troll' is. there are basically three "levels" of internet attacks:
to be a troll involves being disingenuous, saying things that you don't actually believe for the sake of making your target upset. as such, you yourself aren't upset by the situation at hand, but are simply fishing for angry responses for your own entertainment.
angrily attacking someone for something that you feel only slightly opposed to (with the aid of being egged on by insults or seeing it occur too often) would be considered flaming. you aren't extremely passionate about the issue, but you're stirring up a lot of trouble anyways.
saying things that you truly believe but lack the self-restraint to express calmly would just be plain old vigilante justice with a dash of heedless anger.
bashing rips falls into the latter two categories an overwhelming majority of the time; i can't think of a scenario where someone thinks ripping is ok but bashes it just for fun-- which would be trolling.
now that we've got that cleared up, the reason people are upset about rips:
they show a complete lack of effort on the creator's side. it's simply a cheap grab for power
they're always horribly put together because the person who created the rip has no appropriate knowledge of the language they're working with-- and, in a lot of cases, are simply too young/dumb to understand how to create coherent gameplay.
following up on that point, the abominable nature of rips and their extreme overpopulation smears BYOND with an ugly stain of horrible, immature quality that drives away respectable developers-- and, as a result-- the naive prospect of a good game on BYOND.
quick question. Have you ever cheated on a test, then realized you were wrong for doing it, so you told the teacher on yourself? If you answer "No" to this question then if anyone gives this exact reason for hating rips they are a hypocrite.
they show a complete lack of effort on the creator's side. it's simply a cheap grab for power.
Maybe im wrong but i thought byond was for the young to be able to grasp the language better, that is unless im wrong, which i might be lol. If i am right, then saying this would be kinda dumb, because trying is better than giving up.
they're always horribly put together because the person who created the rip has no appropriate knowledge of the language they're working with-- and, in a lot of cases, are simply too young/dumb to understand how to create coherent gameplay.
and finally for the last part its a double-edged sword you can look at it from your point or from Ganing's point.
btw didnt read the whole distinguishing troll part because truth be told it doesnt matter lol.
that "No one likes rips" part you should keep to yourself, because you dont speak for me. I like Rips that are at the very least tried to be made fun.
Already know someone might say "Rips aren't fun" so ill go ahead and reply to whoever says it now lol Rips are fun based on a person's opinion of the word fun. and since opinions only matter to yourself (unless someone shares that opinion with you) its stupid to go on someones page and sling derogatory words at them.