I'm a little late to this discussion and skimmed thru the posts.
I don't defend Andre's choice of words in the title or his heated responses. but attacking the 'alleged' technical shortcomings of gear, particularly gear which is newly introduced to us, or introduced to us by someone familiar to us, is just bad manners and will tear apart the community.
and then if we allow first posters to swoop down and take pot shots at this 'fresh meat' then shame on us.
is that the kind of neighborhood we want????
there has to be a bit of respect and presumption of the possibility that whatever kind of gear it might be, that we have interest in learning about it before we pass judgment.
I lay a significant amount of the responsibility for this trend on Amir. why beat around the bush? he dives right in for easy pickings.....no matter his contrary rational. it's his DNA clearly. and as we go farther down that road it's more and more who we are.
today I posted about tube rolling.
you know what's great. Amir and Blizzard don't know ducky about tubes so they stayed the hell away.
I don't defend Andre's choice of words in the title or his heated responses. but attacking the 'alleged' technical shortcomings of gear, particularly gear which is newly introduced to us, or introduced to us by someone familiar to us, is just bad manners and will tear apart the community.
and then if we allow first posters to swoop down and take pot shots at this 'fresh meat' then shame on us.
is that the kind of neighborhood we want????
there has to be a bit of respect and presumption of the possibility that whatever kind of gear it might be, that we have interest in learning about it before we pass judgment.
I lay a significant amount of the responsibility for this trend on Amir. why beat around the bush? he dives right in for easy pickings.....no matter his contrary rational. it's his DNA clearly. and as we go farther down that road it's more and more who we are.
today I posted about tube rolling.
you know what's great. Amir and Blizzard don't know ducky about tubes so they stayed the hell away.