reflex wrote:
And I agree. As my experience with him is just on the HPANWO forum, that's what I'm referencing. I could provide links to a number of his posts where he's included references to presentations of what he's describing (such as
how focal length affects apparent distance in photos) if it would be of any benefit.
People like Gilly are probably grateful for his abusive postings as it lets them attack the presenter and not the facts. And there were plenty (proportionally speaking) of anti-JD posters who were just as vile but had nothing more to contribute than their opinion. I'm amused they never got banned.
Don't lose sight of the difference between the personality and the information. 'Tis better to listen to the annoying person who tells the truth than the charmer who spreads falsehoods. Or (in the case of Alex Jones and similar) the haters who publish propaganda!
If I remember rightly, Reflex (which I do) the only 'factual' topics he ever posted on when I was there were about the moon landing. The overwhelming majority of his posts were nothing more than very nasty personal attacks. Since I agreed with his POV on the moon landing, I'll be fascinated to hear you try to justify your first sentence about me here.
You and I, on the other hand, agreed on virtually nothing, yet did have long debates, and never once came to blows over it. And funnily enough, those many differences of opinion have never once led me to attack you. If they had, I doubt you'd have expressed good wishes, and a desire to speak with me again in the future - which, so long as the PM's haven't automatically been erased after a period of time, I can verify you did.
So again, you might want to revise that remark.
And I have to say that it's a mystery to me as to why you felt the urge to trail to another forum in order to defend this arsehole. It's not like he's ever come up with any important, new information on anything, that we need to be educated on.