Why the "hug/glomp me" signs?

[Jun-Watarase]

Heh.  Yeah, agreed with Tony.

I mean, I get where Pyron and the others are coming from.  At its worse, Glomping isn't any better than rape (sort of...).  It's a surprise (in a bad way), people could seriously get hurt, their costumes could get ruined, or, I dunno, they can be emotionally scarred or something.  The thing is, people ALL have different standards and thresholds for physical contact.  I think a lot more "glompers" should be more considerate of others when they go on their glomping sprees... [...] It's kinda like... emotionless hugging, which is kinda weird; rather, it defeats the purpose of the gesture in the first place.  You'd just be doing it for the physical contact and the attention, not for the warm and fuzzy emotion behind it.

Agreed. I'd also like to point out, again; glomping itself isn't too bad. It's the people participating in idiotic behavior by inconsiderately attacking strangers with tackle-hugs while potentially hurting them. At the same time, glomping within people you know personally, and am sure that they're okay with it, then it's a sign of affection-- like running up and hugging someone you missed and haven't seen for a long time, for example.

No one's aiming to get glomping banned, but recklessly glomping strangers should be highly discouraged for the above reasons.

[PyronIkari]

I thought proponents of hugs and glomps are supposed to be spreading happiness and love!  ;D

You know just as well as I do that this is hardly the intent and purpose of why these things exist.

[FanFicGuru]

I think this thread should be closed now...it's pretty much established that people hungry for "hugs and glomps" are in the minority, but shouldn't be excused for their irresponsible behavior just because "It's a con".
It's that kind of mentality and behavior that gives anime fans a bad name (along with the sex-obsessed Yaoi and hentai fans [not saying all of them are...just the extremes], guys who think that shonen anime are real and other undesirables).

Anyways, please lock this up.

[Tony]

You know just as well as I do that this is hardly the intent and purpose of why these things exist.

Oh totally, hence the statement. Ironic in action and in intent.

And I'll go with FanFicGuru on this one. Case closed!