Well, this forum is like everything in life; you pays your money and you takes your chances. I've noticed it usually takes at least one trip from the top to the bottom of the SOHC/Bikes forum with at least one bump before anyone pays attention. And when they do, unless it's one of the forum heavyweights you have to be real circumspect with the responder's posts. I, for instance, posted a question not too long ago on what I believed to be a potentially harmful topic. The initial responses, though not what I was hoping for, were at least attempts to get with the program with some serious dialog. Unfortunately, several clueless individuals evidently thought it was the silliest question they'd ever heard and proceeded to demonstrate their own ignorance of the subject by ridiculing and deriding the topic, even bringing it up in other, unrelated threads. And to compound their errors, they even went so far as to try and get others to follow their foolish practices. Some of these "Einsteins" were folks I had looked up to for their "expertise"; not any more. Their experience was requested and appreciated, their derision and outright denial was not. In the end, I was able to get my question answered outside the forum by folks who actually know what they're talking about.
I've been on this forum long enough to realize you're gonna get this buIIshlt from time to time, and so I just kind of shake my head over it and move on. A noob treated in this fashion would likely have dropped the site in embarrassment and frustration. HondaMan's signature says (I'm paraphrasing here) "Motorcycle riders are family; treat them as such", and he's absolutely right. People are here to get their questions answered; they want to participate in the enthusiasm we all share over these bikes, and ignoring their questions or, even worse, ridiculing them not only does not share the knowledge, but turns potentially valuable team members away.
End of rant.
