POTW: Are you a fanboy?

^ to expand on that, i think Fanboy, in the truly negative connotation of the term, goes beyond mere unquestioning love for something, but to the exclusion of all else, and all other opinions.

i used to be very much a Nintendo fanboy back in primary/early-high-school, (NES/SNES era) as was almost everyone else at my school. had never played a megadrive, but i knew i hated it, and it was a pox on the gaming scene.
imagine my surprise to find that there are actually some very good games on the Megadrive.
(it's not really a case of hindsight regret either, since if i was into both consoles, i'd not have been able to afford games for both anyway - so it does kinda serve a useful purpose at times.)

to attach a meaningless stance to a very serious one, fanboyism is almost like homophobia, or xenophobia. you know you hate something, and you want to poke it with sharp sticks, but is there a rational reason? nope.

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whether this is the meaning intended in the POTW, i don't think it is.
it obviously started as a term simply to describe a big fan of something.
i'm a Star Wars fanboy. i'm also a MGS fanboy, and a Valve and Blizzard and Terry Pratchett fanboy, and i'm sure a fanboy of many other brands/names/franchises.
but only in the "i'm a big fan, and collect useless mementos based on something" (or to use the poll's definition, getting it in the way of social grace) definition of the term.