Jesus, I'm not gonna sift through 1176 pages to find maybe one post by a random member that's really just speculation being spouted as fact.ask Fatmanonice, or another member of the Geno Alliance if you dont believe me.
edit: http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=72298
look at the sheer amount of pages. there were some people who just posted once to show their support. many forums had their own support threads for him. he was one of the most wanted characters.
If you want to argue, post some kind of confirmation of your claims that Paper Mario was originally being developed by Square and not Intelligent Systems, as early as before the (pre-N64) Sony/Nintendo split, and that it was originally going to be SMRPG2. Those are the claims I'm disputing here, not whether or not there were many diehard Geno fanatics.