I'm not an outsider and I don't understand the hatred for Philburt either, and that's always been my position.
See, there's a monumental difference here: Melinda Scott is not only a stupid whore who's produced 6 children (I believe) but also lives entirely off the government dole while using her time not working and neglecting her kids to launch paupers lawsuits she doesn't have to pay for. There are actual experienced judges and lawyers and private individuals whose time/money is being wasted by that walking canker covered uterus, and they have absolutely no say in the matter.
I don't want to speak for
@Null here, but for people like him who see families and children as being a sort of objective end goal, which isn't uncommon, the fact she pops out kid after kid while other people abstain due to a sense of responsibility only to be attacked by her,
while they pay for all of it, probably seems downright repugnant.
Spoony didn't fail because he got punished by karma for his behavior, he failed because he gave up. Spoony could unquestionably still be living just like Phil if not better, but will not show up to do something even
once a month let alone 6 days a week. His house and his woman would still be there if he'd made even a slight effort. There was, and is, no objective roadblocks stopping him from making a living online again except his own ego and constant wallowing in self pity. He could theoretically do it right now. He won't though.
Phil, on the other hand, is a deliberately childless man who never screwed anyone who didn't willingly involve themselves with him. Prior instances of copystrikes, in my book, would be his absolute worst crimes. If you look at it Phil isn't really especially lucky, he's just blindly, often idiotically persistent, which I admire on some level.
But point is dude is an absolute saint compared to countless cows on this site that most of those supposedly righteous A-logs just ignore. On its face it makes no sense.
My running hypothesis for where the real hatred comes from is the fact that Phil is a somewhat exaggerated funhouse mirror version of a lot of dudes online: he's a socially incompetent, neurotic, highly immature momma's boy with very few/no real life friends and major issues with trust and intimacy, who drinks too much and rarely leaves the house, and I think some people are driven insane by having that mirror held up to them
(although that isn't isolated to Phil: see the haydur nation and Amberlynn).
So I suspect it's less that outsiders are uninformed and more that a lot of detractors aren't being honest with themselves about why it is that they're so consumed by hatred for someone who's ultimately pretty inoffensive and easily ignored when they're on an internet full of some of the most wretched scumbags to walk the planet.