I've been on enough Mac threads to know that those guys let NO hit on their baby go unpunished. On those threads, MS-only folks outright insult and flame the Mac users from their first post.
As you've said, when you have trouble with the whole world, maybe you're the problem.
I, and most people, have no problem discussing with fans of Mac and Linux and Unix and Java and the rest.
Yet you MS-only folks have *tons* of trouble with fans of Mac and Linux and Unix and Java and the rest. Every thread you participate in burns to the ground in a flame fest, almost always started by an MS-only person. Ya'll directly insult, call names of the lowest sort, act like children -- and then take offense at the slightest negative comments from the other side.
Again, I seem to have no problems with anyone else. You guys have the exact same problems you have with me with everyone else.
Consider it.
Heck, one of the funniest things -- ya'll like to call me an Sun 'shill', but I'm loud about saying I think Sun boxen are overpriced and don't deliver on the bang-for-the-buck. I don't like Solaris at all, and refuse to use it, it's too labrynthine.
The common thread here, then, is the MS-only crowd. Ya'll have issues to deal with.
Once again you completely ignore absolutely everything in the post except the one sentence that doesn't stand up well on it's own.
And don't even try to say the Macheads wait for MS only people to insult them. As I said, and you ignored, I can't even get away with pointing out System 7s amazing flaws, I never hit the user I could care less, I only hit the product I could give a crap about the user. And in come the guns. I've seen those Machead tearing the crap out of Windows and MS defenders for upward of 30 posts before one of us even posts on the thread. They're really good at making up attacks, those are funny posts to read, these people are arguing with themselves.
The threads I see burn to the ground are the ones with you in them... and the Mac threads. I've seen threads go strong for 200 posts, then you show up and by 275 it's the same old crap. I never called you any kind of shill. I have considered it Dom, you forget I've spent the last two months as a self imposed reader only on these threads. Most I just stop reading once I see you're there, I know how the rest is gonna go. the ones without you are great though. Free-wheeling exchange of information, people actually willing to believe each other, no one being accused of working for MS. They're beautiful. Then a dark stench rises out of Mordor and it's instant flame war.