Plus, posting "progressive metal" here makes you so cool that the whole continent starts freezing.
Why do you assume people can't mean that they don't care for it without trying to be cool or edgy? It's a Dream Theater forum, yes, but there's plenty of users here that haven't ever been huge fans of the genre otherwise (BVD and GuitarCozmo come to mind).
And if that was a shot at me, I know it may seem that I come across as aggressive towards the entire genre, but much of my favorite bands are considered progressive rock/metal - Pain of Salvation, Dream Theater, Tool, Coheed, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, BTBAM, Riverside, etc. - it's just bands in the vein of Vanden Plas and Circus Maximus (though A Darkened Mind is a great song) that I don't care for.