bikendan wrote:
mkl654321 wrote:
Boy, some poor bastard asks a legitimate question, he gets 90% utterly unhelpful answers and gets talked at like he was an idiot--and then when he mildly expresses his dislike at such treatment, he gets piled on again.
You can definitely learn a lot about RVing from these forums, including that you probably don't want to come within 500 yards of other RVers!
Just because you are a "Senior Member" and have a Good Sam decal displayed everywhere doesn't give you the right to piddle on a newbie's head. The question asked was legitimate. The OP's mistake was in thinking that it would actually be answered.
if it was so easy, why didn't you answer it?:R
Who said it was an easy question to answer? I certainly didn't; what I said was that the question was legitimate.
That's a large part of the Internet rudeness you see on website forums; people will criticize you for things you didn't even say!!! People say nasty things that they wouldn't dare to say in face-to-face interactions, because it would earn them bloody noses.
I think that the OP had the mistaken impression that legitimate advice could be obtained on these forums. I feel that it is a certainty that most if not all of the snarkies who responded here do, in fact, have strong opinions, often shared in long, rambling conversations during long nights in Quartzite, as to which brands offer better quality than others. Those opinions, taken with the appropriate grain of salt, could be valuable.
But no, let's all jump up and down on the naïve newbie! It reinforces our sense of community and inflates our egos to do so!