Dicotomy:
If you don't like the forum, please feel free to leave - UT does not exist for your pleasure or your personal drama - much less to validate your belief in being the one and only who can see "the big picture". Other members have put in more effort in providing information, which includes but by no means limited to big holes in the ground. If you can't accept that as being an integral part of the forum without passing judgement on the effort required to provide that information, move on.
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Ok. So, others are allowed to take potshots at my assertions (like Adma's remarks about car forums being 'piddly' when he/she knows nothing about them (clearly), then makes even more derogatory remarks about the genetic make up of those car forum 'types' - and that's okay?
Does the length of one's membership determine the validity of their arguments? Hmm. Sounds strange. I think I remember someone asserting that being Canadian-born does not give someone any more rights than an immigrant, so would that not mean then that length of membership is not a valid argument?
I was making a valid rebuttal to snide remarks aimed my way by a member who saw an opportunity to be nasty while answering a legitimate question from another member.
Perhaps some of you who have been posting on UT for years can't see the forest for the trees. I was merely making an observation, as one who has read through several hundred threads in the past month or so to play catch up, and what I do see are a lot of photos of big holes in the ground and lots of excited chatter about them. As a newcomer, it has been merely an observation.
I do not like starting fights but I won't necessarily back down. I have seen far worse rants and far worse attacks on the automotive forums - they can get very personal, too.
The one thing I do know is that the forums that shrivel and die are the ones where dissent is discouraged and members banned just because their opinions are different. The best forums are where lively banter from both sides (or many sides) goes back and forth for pages and pages. Those are the interesting ones. Those are the ones where
everyone can learn.
I mean no disrespect in referring to pictures of holes in the ground, but you have to admit, to a casual reader there are a lot of them on this site.