Bodog wrote:...
Why are you so bent on insulting people? What are you helping by insulting someone who brought up good points? I find his reaction a little ridiculous but come on, any kind of reaction about knives is a little ridiculous, myself included. Whatever you think you're bringing to the table, it's worse than ApostleP. At least he's trying to help in his own way. Are you?
I was gonna stay out of this one as I have no experience, or desire to attain said experience, around these knives but I just find myself compelled to comment. I've been around forums a loooong time and I have to say, you are one of the most skilled antagonists I've encountered. I modded a few forums and dealt with all manner of flare ups on a routine basis. Typically, they are pretty easy to sort out but sometimes they get sticky and every once in a while you get a deft keyboardist and it is almost admirable to behold. The self-righteousness is almost fascinating to experience.
No one who is not in staunch agreement with you can assail the moral high ground as you have firmly planted your flags all around it and peed on every bush. You fall back to the seemingly lofty position of loving Spyderco and only wanting the best for them and us and this should absolve you of all pretense that you simply cannot let anything go. You're a bobber fisherman, not a troller. You bait your hooks and cast them out with patience.
You're doing no more now to help Spyderco as those who, rightly or wrongly, deny any issue or blindly rally to the brand. You're just poking. But you're smart enough to let it play off as you're the victim of the attacks and thus justified in your responses.
For all I know, you may be as right as rain and may have been part of helping Spyderco customers everywhere, but if all you care about is that, then your work is done. What more is to be gained by engaging? There is no more to do here, as far as the brand and product are concerned. Are you sure that's all you care about?
I really do believe you care and want to do right but it gets lost in your verbal skirmishes. A wise presenter always considers their audience.
Every challenge requires a response. You do realize it is a weakness yes? Now, one can argue I've bit your hook and I reckon it would be true. A weakness on my part I admit but I recognize my imperfection and realize it is a lifetime of work.
At any rate, I'm going to go back to wrangling with what Spyderco I'm going to buy next. I mean there's the KW M2LW, the new Stretch 2, and now the folks got me me pondering the Dragonfly and I still really want a blue Delica 4 and...
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