cult-like

The author does himself/herself a disservice knocking down some really low-hanging fruits and almost cult-like points.

Why, look at the cult-like following Matz enjoys for creating a half-baked Smalltalk and Perl knock-off.

TM is a cult-like money-grabbing business promoting one very specific form of meditation, and hardly representative of all forms of meditation practices.

Yeah, I read this article and for whatever reason had a sense of this being very cult-like.

I have gone to India and witnessed first hand all the bullshit rigmarole that goes around in enforcing a cult-like structure.

I've been programming for 35 years, and I remember when object-oriented programming advocates seemed cult-like.

They're just brainwashed by their cult-like government, not stupid.

From the perspective of a total outsider far away from the United States, I always thought the Valley's tech scene was strangely sort of cult-like, in a way.

Not only that, but like you said it attracts a lot of fervent personality types who portray a lot of the cult-like attitudes towards a certain diet or program (Keto is especially bad).

At least you can deploy a HipChat server in your own boxes, Slack is a no-go for many environments, yet still used because of a good client interface combined with a cult-like following.

You're right, however, that there is a cult-like feeling around polyphasic sleep discussion, and I view that sort of thing with extreme skepticism...but I'm surprised to find it happening on both sides.

The software is the cause of almost every problem the site has (including bias, harassment, censorship, Gender Gap, lack of media support, hideous textbook like formatting and more) but the cult-like status attached to it ensures it cannot be meaningfully updated.

You know Scientology, Amway and most other cult-like phenomena say the same thing: It's never the "system" that's wrong, if it's not working it means you're doing something wrong.

It is you exhibiting cult-like behaviour in this case, if all you can do to denigrate and negate Stallman is say "but, but..

But in any group, people will try to conform unconsciously - the stubbornness of Establishment scientists (putatively truth-seekers) is a well-known trope; even here, HackerNews has some cult-like qualities (the "pg cult").