Personally I would not have used the language that Andre used, but I still defend his right to say it. He was personally maligned and I completely understand his frustration. He made an introduction of a product and then the armchair engineers dumped all over him. Apparently that tactic is perfectly fine. Double-standard anyone?
We didn't dump all over *him*. We spoke of something that was an odd design in the product. He took it on himself that he was being attacked. It is not like he said, "look at the great design of that heatsink" and we disagreed. He said it sounded amazing. We said but reliability may be a concern in its design.
His reaction was to violate the forum terms of service. While we did not. That is a single standard. That is the reason we have terms of service. To have a set of rules that are known when members join. And that calls for not using profanity no matter what the cause.
But let's say you are right. That we did dump on him on a technical point. So? That happens to me on every forum including ours. People disagree with my point and sometimes violently. Have you seen me use the "F" word with them? No. I post under my real name and as an industry member, i cannot ever, under any circumstance, go there.
Andre is posting under the umbrella of our forum. We gave him a specific forum with his name on it as we have done with other industry people. I don't see Bruce, Vincent, Gary, etc. cussing at people when they disagree with them. He needs to act the same way.
Still, as I said, we have gone out of our way to favor him by not sanctioning him in any manner, putting us in a difficult spot with respect to people have resented his conduct. So in that regard, yes, we are having a double standard but in favor of Andre, not the other way around.
It simply is a fact of life that making arguments on forum tough business. It is the type of thing that no one is taught how to do. Lessons therefore have to be learned the hard way and this is it.
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