Nothing like giving a newcomer a polarised view of fellrunning eh?
Sam the fell running world is a bit divided and you should ignore rubbish like this and make your own mind up. If you've never really ran on the fells before, you could do a lot worse than join the FRA or just use the race calender to research a few races close to where you live then just do a bit of a reccy run around the course before diving straight in and doing a race. If you can find a club local to you that does a bit of fell training then even better.