@Dart, if you're going to critique people whom you call experts and make out how much smarter you are than them, your point might come across more believable if one of those people you were criticizing wasn't someone whose somehow managed to run this site for 11 years.
It's not about being smarter than you. I'm not smarter
Well, it depends on how you define smarter, I suppose. To me, there are many ways of being smart - and I know for a fact that I'm an idiot in several of those ways.
This is about being rational versus irrational. Emotionally biased versus reasonably neutral and objective.
My ego doesn't really take much part in these debates - which is why it's easy to focus on the subject - and not what I want to be true.
Also, what's your point about running this site for 11 years? I have no idea what you mean by that.
First of all, running a site like this is exceptionally easy in technical terms. The challenge is bothering to do it in terms of the work-load, because it can be a very ungrateful job.
However, I assume Myrthos is running the site because he wants to run it - and because he's enjoying it.
If not, then he should certainly stop.
Of course, the smart thing to do is
You're very right. That was my point to Myrthos.
For whatever reason, he can't help himself on occasion and - like you - he enters the occasional argument.
But it doesn't really take more than one or two exchanges before he loses interest and starts the usual song about "how little he actually cares" and then a little cute derogatory remark.
Again, like you, his ego is too big a part of it.
That's why it takes so much energy.
If you don't want to exchange with a "brick wall" - then don't even start.
The stupid thing to do would be to start and then give up immediately because you're annoyed that I actually have a point.
That's not really on me, is it. I certainly won't take responsibility for it - and I most certainly don't care if you're running the site or not.
In my eyes, we're all equal and of equal value. That doesn't mean I like what you have to say - or that I'm going to not speak my mind. That's just my way.