This thread makes me feel like I've entered another dimension, a Bizarro-earth.
What is so alien to people about the concept of "Hey, maybe I'll just, not be a jerk, cause 50 people are asking me to NOT do something"
If the OP directly chose to do something that pisses so many people off, then he'll have to live with that choice. The online community will decide whats right and who they want to play with, and OP was wrong- because he was angering them. Its cause and effect.
This isn't rocket science. OP's situation could be applied to RL things, work things, social gatherings, not just online content. But sociopaths have trouble with it I guess.