I wasn't necessarily referring to you, but I'm glad you qualified your comments.
IMO 'love' can be used in more situations than 'hate.' You can refer to 'love' in a romantic sense like loving your wife, or you can use it in reference to much more casual situations, like I 'love' working in the garden. 'Hate' is a little more narrowly defined, at least in my book.
It's a bit of a distraction from the thread, but in a venue absent any queues like tone of voice and facial expressions where all we have to rely on is written text, it's important to be concise in our remarks.