Originally Posted by
Shaun Mahood
It unfortunately leads to a lot more self imposed withdrawals of experts, and I've watched another formerly great forum where all the professionals and knowledgeable members have left due to a heavy skew towards the side of "all are equal".
It does not take a huge leap of comprehension to figger out who is truly expert in their chosen topics, and who is pretty goldarn smart. And who is a sniper or pretender.
There are the experts that make sense to me, and some that sometimes don't. That's OK too. I listen to what they have to say, and think it through. The really remarkable thing is that there is no topic, however small the focus, that does not generate at lest 2 different methods, both of which work equally well - at least, at my skill level.
You really don't want some admin type slicing the gen pop up into experts and proles. And, if an expert finally gets exhausted by covering the same topic multiple times, and wants to retire to a forum populated only by experts, I can understand that. If they are under continual badgering by people they consider to be ankle-biters, then that provides more of an impetus.
I feel a whole lot more like I do now, than I did a little while ago.
My plan is to live forever. So far, so good.