1) I thought your name was Brian for some reason. My name's Mike, by the way, but I post under the username mike to throw folks off. I don't have much experience in online forums, apart from an awesome small email group I'm a part of with 6 extraordinary folks, this is my first online community. I didn't even know what reddit was when I joined hubski. I have to imagine that if people were more real or more transparent, we'd have less of this kind of behavior where folks open a "discussion" with a personal attack. (By the way, i'm probably one the top transparent folks here - I post links to my stuff all the time and make it easy to find out who Mike Naylor is).

2) Yeah, like I said, you say something akin to "you don't know what you're talking about". And I will also repeat the winky emoticon: ;-) I appreciate that you make the effort to not say that directly, but it is how you come across. I appreciate that you don't suffer fools. I also appreciate that you can and do back up your opinion with numerous citations -- very commendable! And I find your commentary amusing - I smile almost every time I read what you write which I why I haven't muted you etc.

I do wonder why you go to such extraordinary efforts to make your point, your previous reply to me a case in point. I assume you enjoy very much arguing, and I imagine you could effectively argue both sides of a point. What perhaps turns people off is not your arguments, but the impression that you are doing so not to help out a fellow human but more because you enjoy feeling powerful. I don't think you can deny that, and I also don't think you give a rat's ass.

So what's my point? I don't know. Sometimes I just like hearing myself talk. ;-) Peace!