I am not a real heavy poster, and I try to make absolutely sure of my answers before posting them. Possibly why I don't post that many! I have been using cameras somewhat seriously for more years than probably half the members here have been alive, and I consider myself an 'advanced enthusiast' with no desire to be a professional. That being said, I have to agree with the OP. Some of the information here is truly wrong, but defended to the death. I feel that the moderators do a really good job of keeping the tone of the forum civil without censoring too much. Most people who have spent a lot of time on internet forums learn that it is often difficult to ascertain exactly what tone was intended to be conveyed since we don’t have the normal visual and auditory clues present in face to face communication. I always try to give the benefit of the doubt when trying to decide if someone is being rude or sarcastic, but there are some posters here who sometimes seem to cross the line. I generally stay away from participation in controversial threads, yet I often enjoy reading them. But to get back to one of the original points of this thread, yes, we seem to have more instant experts in every field now than we used to. While I think there is about the same amount of information on certain subjects, with the internet, it is vastly easier to find it. Perhaps this simply doesn’t give people enough time to assimilate it. But given my druthers, I would druther not go back to the way it was!
