However, my impression is that most of the 1MB-supporters think the censoring serves as a counterbalance to the higher level of public support BitcoinXT appears to receive.
Who?
Name one 1 MB supporter on this forum, Peter. Whichever singular name you come up with, they will almost certainly refute the label. Check your rhetoric.
Here are a few names of people opposed to the block size increase along with evidence that they feel the censorship is a positive thing in terms of balancing the debate.
1. Theymos (
link)
2. Peter Todd (
link)
3. Brg444 (
link,
link)
4. Marcus_of_Augustus (
link)
5. LaudaM (
link)
I'm quite certain I could compile a much more comprehensive list with higher-quality example quotes too if I spent several days going back through people's comments.
I think you have left a few people out, I can think of at least three more. But it all conforms to what I've already said about this: painting those 5 as subscribers to "1MB forever, period" is not credible when you look at what their actual position is. Ditto the 3 I'm thinking of.
Essentially, no one is so imperceptive that they believe that you can increase the rate at which information is processed, and yet simultaneously believe that you can use the same amount of resources to do it. No one would believe that someone was capable of being so imperceptive. Except apparently yourself.