[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by Hypnotist

I felt insulted and I was hurt when some of you (you know who you are) started picking on me. Miscommunication is a terrible thing!

Bart

I was going to stay out of this, but this goes a little far. Your post started off by putting a fair few people on tender hooks. If you make a general claim that your brand of scope is better than someone else's brand of scope, then owners of that other brand are going to ask what gives you, with your level of inexperience, the right to claim it. A reference to some YouTube pages isn't going to convince anyone of anything.

A fair few people here, including myself Bart, gave you nothing more than their considered advice which they thought was relevant to your situation - right up to the point that you shot them down by chosing to insult them - dismissing their advice as nothing more than the result of "envy". You also stated that everyone else's advice was "useless". To add injury to insult you proceeded to argue on relevant semantics concerning "envy" and "jealousy". "Miscommunication" indeed. I mean, what the...? I'm not sure how you might think people were going to react to all this. An apology from you at that point would probably have gone a long way to repairing the situation. No-one had been anything other than courteous towards you up until then.

It's great to see that at least one person can give me useful and good tips out here in comparison to others who are just, how should I put it,...envious.

I don't think we should come here to express prejudice or envy and gripe about other peoples' decisions.

You claim to feel insulted - well, I'm afraid that so do those who were giving you some of their own thoughts - in an effort to help - whether they were all in support of your decision to go with what you have or not. You went on and on, without responding to anyone who you thought wasn't giving you what you wanted to hear, so many of us surmised that you were indeed a "troll" - someone who's main intent is to log onto forums and push their agenda and stir up trouble. A few of us are pretty sensitive to these people, and your pattern of non-response lead to that conclusion for many - me included.

Go and have a long hard think about how people might react to all of this. It's a two way street. I don't care how old you are - manners matter, and especially when its you asking for the advice. You're old enough to realise what you've said. Plenty of people come on here and ask for, and get advice, and are grateful for it. You weren't, and here we are. You could yet be a very valuable asset to this forum, and quite frankly I hope so. You seem to have the passion for it, and time will hopefully temper the discordant approach. I personally wish you well and hope that you do great things with the new gear. All I can end with is that I hope you have a decent camera - it'd be a real shame if you didn't intend to plug it on the rear of the beast.