^I disagree, not with your logic.. that much is sound. I disagree with the idea that we should just walk away and allow our entire community to be belittled by a small group of worthless individuals. I think that we should return like with like myself, with as much tact as possible. Personally I think that borgqueenx has remained stoic throughout his unfortunate experience. I've seen nothing that would justify the kinds of responses that were received other than the fact that borg is from LPF.
In theory you are right.. however certain PL members have overstepped their bounds more than once by coming here to use our resource and then talking shit on our whole community behind our backs. If I catch someone doing that to me in real life, then I take the battle home to them. The same applies here.
The whole reason I joined PL in the first place was because of how angry it made me to watch these people just dog on the rest of the laser community over and over (yes it's been going on for that long). I thought that perhaps I could help offset that with opposing viewpoints. It worked for a little while, but then people got personal. That's when some PL members demonstrated to me they are no more capable of acting grown up than many of us are.
We (LPF) are a FAR greater force in this hobby than Pl ever will be for a number of reasons, not the least of which are the fact that in general we have far more tolerant and helpful members, and we are NOT APPLICATION SPECIFIC. LPF is about LASERS... ALL LASERS.. PL is about laser projectors.. laser projectors are cool, but I think that our broadness of scope contributes greatly to our strength.
Myself, I have absolutely no intention of posting on PL ever again. However I WILL ALWAYS point out (with links) every little misstep by specific members there so that the rest of the community can see just what trash their actions make them out to be. That's my retaliation for EACH and EVERY person I saw get run out of there. And it's ALWAYS the same group of people running them off: mixedgas, buffo, dlsi_jon, and a few of their cohorts. The rest of the people there are great (for the most part) so I see no reason why these few douchebags should be allowed to ruin PL for whoever they see fit.
So, where I'm going with this is that it is not good to go there and lose it to get banned.. but it is good to sit down and think of as many tactful methods as possible to get OUR point across.. hell, these very same PL members that are causing trouble have used our forum as a resource on MANY occasions (not that they would admit it) because there is a TON of knowledge here.. particularly knowledge of diodes, where to harvest them, drive them and under what conditions they are happiest.
So it's true, both forums have their place.. but we're WAYY better IMNSHO.
well usally the heart attack is called strobe mode at the cheapo projectors.
