Note that the word expert is not in quotation marks.
Everyone is an expert on something. For most of us, or expertise is limited to subjects like our own lives or the interior of our home or something like that. However, there are actual bonafide gun experts. People who are internationally acknowledged to be experts in some facet of firearms. Amazingly, we have had at least a couple of them grace the pages of TFL. Each time (that I am aware of), some jerk or jerks decided that it would be amusing to them to pull the guy's chain.
What a shame.
Then after the fact they make comments like they have a right to express their opinions or this guy isn't some kind of god or whatever. In reality, you did two things. #1 You proved to anyone in doubt how ignorant you are. #2 you either drove away or soured someone on this board. Someone who knows more about that subject than everyone else on here combined. I get on here to discuss guns and learn about guns. I would love it if the true experts answered my questions and give me advice, but I don't think it is ever going to happen.
There is a thread currently running on the board where a bunch of people wildly speculate, others make posts about what they wish was reality rather than what is reality when lo and behold a true expert arrived on-scene. He is probably one of a few hundred people in the world that know the true story of what is being discussed. After getting a few smart a**ed remarks thrown at him, he moved on to more productive things. I saw the same thing happen to the same guy on a different board. A more specialized board than this where he is a true expert on the subject that the whole board is based on. I have no idea what would attract a serious operator, shooter, trainer, or whatever to a board like this. They attempt to lay it all out for you and end all the speculations and questions and most people don't want to listen - they only want to talk. Their mouth is open and their ears our closed. All to our collective loss.
Moral to the story: Before you post, consider the possibility that the person you are discussing the subject with might really know what he is talking about. Or, before you send that nasty post, consider that you might be driving away someone that you can learn far more from than 1000 other members of this board. Someone who has vast experience, real life experience ..............................................
Everyone is an expert on something. For most of us, or expertise is limited to subjects like our own lives or the interior of our home or something like that. However, there are actual bonafide gun experts. People who are internationally acknowledged to be experts in some facet of firearms. Amazingly, we have had at least a couple of them grace the pages of TFL. Each time (that I am aware of), some jerk or jerks decided that it would be amusing to them to pull the guy's chain.
What a shame.
Then after the fact they make comments like they have a right to express their opinions or this guy isn't some kind of god or whatever. In reality, you did two things. #1 You proved to anyone in doubt how ignorant you are. #2 you either drove away or soured someone on this board. Someone who knows more about that subject than everyone else on here combined. I get on here to discuss guns and learn about guns. I would love it if the true experts answered my questions and give me advice, but I don't think it is ever going to happen.
There is a thread currently running on the board where a bunch of people wildly speculate, others make posts about what they wish was reality rather than what is reality when lo and behold a true expert arrived on-scene. He is probably one of a few hundred people in the world that know the true story of what is being discussed. After getting a few smart a**ed remarks thrown at him, he moved on to more productive things. I saw the same thing happen to the same guy on a different board. A more specialized board than this where he is a true expert on the subject that the whole board is based on. I have no idea what would attract a serious operator, shooter, trainer, or whatever to a board like this. They attempt to lay it all out for you and end all the speculations and questions and most people don't want to listen - they only want to talk. Their mouth is open and their ears our closed. All to our collective loss.
Moral to the story: Before you post, consider the possibility that the person you are discussing the subject with might really know what he is talking about. Or, before you send that nasty post, consider that you might be driving away someone that you can learn far more from than 1000 other members of this board. Someone who has vast experience, real life experience ..............................................