Good Morning Tomo.
I was going to reply about the 'grumpy old man' thing and the fact that I was banned for attempting to answer a posters technical query as it was within my area of expertise, but made the mistake of using a blacklisted product name. How ****** impertinent and childish.... As for being a disgruntled businessman, then I'm in the clear as I was acting as an experienced Level 2 with free advice.
No, what got me going this morning was your comment about 'taunting'. Please realise that it was not my intention that anyone post a query simply to provoke a reaction. I merely wished to point out that anyone following the thread that thought we were making this stuff up only had to try it for themselves. So you are on the wrong tram here - none of us were banned for 'taunting' - simply for trying to assist fellow members and this guy took it upon himself to deny us and other members the benefit of our experience. If you are talking about respect, then who is the one showing disrespect ?
As for signing up by the rules, show me where it says anything about this sort of selective censorship. And yes, I have had a posting where a whole paragraph was deleted without my knowledge. If he had of written back and said the whole piece was not acceptable then fair enough, but you can lose the whole point, or worse, by posting half the story. As a former professional journalist, I find this unacceptable.
Last, but not least, you seem like a nice young fellow with legitimate concerns about our hobby. It is great to getter younger people involved and take an interest, and you don't have to agree with us to be accepted. But mostly we are a bunch of grumpy old men with considerable experience in the industry, and a former Board member in my case, and don't like being treated with disrespect by the guy in question.
BTW, are you going to Archer Falls this weekend ? If so, maybe we can catch up.....