Without rising to the level of maliciousness, I’ve noticed a related pattern to ones you describe here where sometimes my writing attracts supporters who don’t really understand my point and whose statements of support I would not endorse because they misunderstand the ideas. They are easy to tolerate because they say nice things and may come to my defense against people who disagree with me, but much like with your many flavors of malicious supporters they can ultimately have negative effects.
Without rising to the level of maliciousness, I’ve noticed a related pattern to ones you describe here where sometimes my writing attracts supporters who don’t really understand my point and whose statements of support I would not endorse because they misunderstand the ideas. They are easy to tolerate because they say nice things and may come to my defense against people who disagree with me, but much like with your many flavors of malicious supporters they can ultimately have negative effects.