I think You got to Give That Round
To Hia8591!. Seems plain to me (and I bet others too) you tore right through Mr. G's arguments every which way but loose. So Touche (no accent key to use, but needed after the "e") Mr. G, his / their argument and points hold just as much if not more water as yours, and it's about time you and other vet seniors start seeing it that way. He asked nothing of you or other seniors, and can stand on his own two legs both monger-wise and in his literary / debate capabilities, and proved it, evidently. Good job Hia, Dog69, And Srtdmc, you have defended yourselves well and set the record straight. Any objective party (I.e. Not a board member or monger themselves reading these exchanges, should clearly see this IMHO. Board status, post numbers and join times, are long over-valued and over-used measures of knowledge / experience that most certainly don't tell the whole / most accurate account of a noob person's experience, and there are any number of perfectly reasonable explanations why a noob choose to join this site or start to reviews later than he could have, or later than some of the vets. Some of you need imagination improvement. Just my .02.
WTF? Really believe that?
Life is not perfect, the world is not fair and everything / other's advice is always harder done and put in practice than simply verbalized, so don't be so naive like that's the answer. The ignorance is yours. This is a voluntary hobby, nobody is more special than any other and more deserving of deference etc. Who cares if they are mistrustful and or got burned proportionately higher than average; those are the ups and downs of the hobby and those vets should know this best and not use it as any rational. You roll the dice and eventually will crap out, and if you think you won't then you should have retired long ago or perhaps never started in the first place. Complaining or bitching yields ca ca. No sympathy here, you reap what you sow.