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Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius
This response and those that followed is what bothers me - if you don't want to participate in a discussion about this stuff, then don't, but I think it's a crappy thing to do to insult people who are interested in it. I constantly hear providers and hobbyists purport to be intelligent, thoughtful people, but I rarely see that quality exercised in any useful way. To the contrary, it seems like the intellectually curious should be shunned.
I get that this is supposed to be fun, and that not everyone wants to "overthink it" but I think it's pretty damn disrespectful to disregard/make fun of somebody who is interested in something you're not. What is this, high school? If you don't understand what somebody says or aren't interested, you act like it must be stupid or devoid of meaning.
Laurentius actually seems to be one of approximately three people who got the intent of this thread. We all represent little pieces of the pie of the hobby and maybe some of us have questions, experiences, or assumptions we want to discuss with others
because we can't with people in our daily lives. Maybe we want to know if our experiences are universal or not, or if somebody else has asked the same question.
The whole point is to NOT make conclusions about the entire hobby based on our limited individual experiences - it's to see what common conclusions can be drawn from the collective experiences of others.
I have yet to understand what is exactly so wrong with that. Maybe this thread is in the wrong forum, but it doesn't mean it's worthy of outright derision or dismissal.