I don't need to imagine that. I, and others here, have experienced the reciprocal, being called "fanboys" or worse when questioning a "bug" report, defending an aspect of the program or a piece of hardware, or commenting on an aspect of MOTU's business practices that we find feasible but which annoy others (often recent adopters who want DP and MOTU to be just like whatever DAW they were using or imagined a DAW "should be" based on their own beliefs.Shooshie wrote:... imagine that if you posted here about a potential bug in DP, you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, and MOTU was "out to get you!"
While we're fortunate to have a great moderator, these discussions often escalate into name calling and (as you've experienced at eBay) false accusations.
And like you, I've been doing the online thing since Compuserve, PAN, and BBS messaging. It seems nothing has changed but the ease of being uncivil and disrespectful. It gets even more frustrating when the "opposition" is an avatar and made up name.