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Nah!

The more you mine, the more you want to be "left alone" to AFK, because mining is literally the most boring **** anyone ever coded into a game. Because people want to be AFk while "playing" the game they turn into entitled, sniveling little whiners who eschew any interaction whatsoever from other players, self-victimize, and generally whine at the game developers to change PvP mechanics to suit their "needs".

Bottom line: Don't mine. Ever.

EVE has a very strong focus on risk VS reward. For some reason, lots of people seem to think that miners are breaking the general consensus that there is no risk-free way to make ISK (I do not agree with such people).

Most specialized miners have multiple alt accounts and usually set them up to mine afk.
Many people are annoyed that those miners get a lot of iskies for being afk- they get benefits for actually NOT playing the game.

What makes things worse is that some (not all) of these miners cannot accept when their ships are attacked and killed whilst they could do nothing to defend them (because they were afk and did not fit a decent tank).
These people start whine threads on the forum and try to blackmail ccp to change game mechanics in their favour or else they would cancel all their numerous accounts.
The general sentiment amongst the saner people here is that if you decide to put yourself at risk by being afk or not tanking your ship, you should have at least enough spine to accept the possible consequences and not cry like a little female dog.

I think this should sum it up for you.

I hope I was at least a little helpful.

There is a mining lobby which constantly asks for easier, safer, more profitable mining.

Most players resent this and would like to see the only way to improve mining profits to be to move to Low/Null, where you can shot at like any respectable member of the community.

The carebears have a lot of power at the moment and lots of other players find that frustrating.

people who ***** about miners are ******* retards with nothing better to do. Seriously. They get mad at you for mining just because you are mining.

James315 makes his living bumping miners in highsec.

Pussies hate miners.

They make these claims to somehow make themsleves feel important and all knowing.

There's no hatred. They're just easy, profitable kills. Hint: stop being an easy, profitable target.

Observation. As an Agent of the New Order, I spend a lot of my time surrounded by miners, and I am therefore at liberty to study them closely. A significant majority of them mine AFK.

In response to the OP, there are several reasons why there is a general disdain of miners among the EVE population. Here are some of them.

Mining is, in its very essence, a bot-aspirant profession. Even a worthy miner is effectively sitting there doing nothing while his ship blasts asteroids. You'd think that such an activity would only have minimal profits, but no; mining can be one of the most profitable professions in the game. Isn't there something wrong with this?

There's also the problem that miners as a group have had some of the most profoundly negative effects on the game. The reason that hisec nowadays is so much safer and more secure than it was when EVE launched is almost exclusively due to the forum whining of miners. The mining barge buff was due to miners whinging about how easy it was to gank them, as was the buffing of CONCORD and countless other things which have had negative impacts on the way other people want to play.

The obvious counter to this argument is that gankers have negative impacts on the way miners want to play. However, this is not correct. EVE is a sandbox, and that means that you use the tools CCP has put in the sandbox to achieve your goal. In the case of a ganker, this means he expends a ship, all his modules and some sec status to blow up a miner. In the case of a miner, it used to mean that a miner could expend some ore yield to make it harder for a ganker to blow him up. But not content with this, miners petitioned CCP until CCP made it so that miners could easily thwart gankers without having to worry about building fits or sacrificing ore yield.

So yeah. That's some of why people don't like miners.