wdyasq,
I was not complaining and I like this board very much. That is why I finally decided to join this one.
I feel somewhat offended by your comments but I think that they stem from some other resentments that you have that I actually have very little to do with. I also detect a sentiment that I have seen in others posts that seems very elitist to me. I can appreciate wanting a forum that is only full of good information but the price is the stifling of free and intuitive thought. Am I allowed to ask questions? Am I allowed to be wrong? Am I allowed to have crazy ideas that turn out to be total flops? It makes me feel like if I am not producing electricity with a wind turbine that I am barely tolerated here. If that's the case, please trash the everything pages and I'll leave.
This is the forum that is the closest to what I would want. You are the people that I want to associate with. This is the community that I want to belong to. Please don't drive me away because I neglected to do a calculation or I asked a dumb question.
I can also see where you have a very serious concern about safety and I have to agree with you. I see a lot of things in the DIY community that I find questionable, or I wonder why they touched on a topic but didn't go into the obvious safety concern that should've been expanded upon. Was it because they didn't know or just didn't take the time? I am afraid that someday the DIY community could become the target of several law suits that would effectively crush our ability to do anything outside of some corporate structure.
Yes, there's all kinds of folks and some have good info and some have worthless info and some just want to argue and some pose as experts when they really aren't. Speaking for myself, I think that I can tell who is who. And you will meet these people in this forum and other forums and in person. The great thing about having a community is that we don't have to rely only on our own judgement to find out.
As for my comments on the Recent Comments, I think that Admin put the subject to rest. Been there, done that, nuff said. I tried searching the forum to see if it had been a subject in the past but I never found anything.
I should probably post this as its own rant since I don't mean to entirely direct it at you but I'm hoping that you will understand.