I wasn't vagueposting, I was addressing the post directly above mine, and being totally clear about the specific point I was addressing therein. My intention was to be the opposite of vague and you had no trouble figuring out what part of the conversation I was contributing to, so I don't think the situation necessitated me adding any customary @s or RE:s to make myself any clearer.

I'm just saying the feeling you have based on your experience doesn't align with the feeling I have based on mine. I agree that Eridan is polarising, but I haven't ever got the impression that he's uniquely so, and the long list of lovely comments about him in both this thread and at least one other "Eridan appreciation" topic on the board backs up my impression that among a vast majority of fans he's a very well-liked character.

I've also generally found that the few readers who dislike Eridan on "moralising" grounds tend to dislike Equius for the same types of reasons, and I really don't see how that's as hypocritical as you're suggesting it is - yes, Homestuck's population of aliens are almost universally strange and antisocial, but only a select few of them take decidedly villainous roles. Of course nobody in the comic's cast (humans included) is exactly a shining paragon of virtue, but it's not like the comic is somehow above making moral judgements on, like, the guy who can't bring himself to protect his girlfriend because he's too obsessed with submitting to other men, or the guy who committed genocide on his entire race because he got mad that his girlfriend broke up with him. If people dislike them it's because the comic wanted us to do so and gave us good reasons to do so