Thanks for that Bob. I wonder at some people's rudeness sometimes.
But, in a rubbernecking sort of way, it makes me want to go there are
"listen" for a while ...
Chris
On 5 Jun 2007, at 16:46, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> This weekend I had an opportunity to peruse other discussion boards
> and what I found floored me. Not that I didn't know what a bunch of
> rude-nicks wreak havoc on the Internet, just that I hadn't frequented
> their haunts in so long that I had forgotten. Specifically, I hit
> Nikon, Canon & Olympus on dpreview. From worst to best, civility
> wise, Canon, Nikon & Olympus. I could read two or three posts in a
> row on the Oly forum before someone went non-linear. One Canon, and
> Nikon, sometimes I couldn't get even one post in before the poster
> went off half-cocked. And I think half-cocked is a good term. Another
> good term is rude. It's like the folks just patrol the various boards
> and whenever they see someone being nice, or expressing enthusiasm
> for a piece of gear, they butt in and flame it--the poster and the
> gear. And then I saw one guy who posted a noise test of the E-410 vs.
> 5D, with the Oly using the kit lens and the 5D with L glass. And the
> butthead had the audacity to defend his test. It was freaking
> amazing! It was also amazing how much time and effort otherwise
> intelligent people put into trying to persuade the fellow of the
> error of his way. Hell, he _knew_ the error of his ways going in.
> Just another bomb thrower.
>
> Every now and then I think this board gets up on the wrong side of
> the bed, but I ain't thinking that anymore. No way, no how! We are
> absolute paragons of civility, and potential global paradigms of
> polite discourse.
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