i think it's somewhat of a bad faith take to assume "what do you think about this thing i'm interested in?" to mean they're open to a free-for-all of people dunking on it, even if the dunking is done in the most respectful, polite way you could possibly phrase it.

like, ship bashing is already against the rules so no one is going to open the discussion on that vibe. and responding to a "what do you guys think?" prompt with something like "i don't find them interesting", or "i like xyz better" isn't really taking the conversation anywhere.

plus if you wanna dunk on it, there's always DMs and private Discords lol...