Goodbye posts tend to look like grandstanding, but then he did post his reasons - and they sound like reasonable complaints on the surface. I don't know what all he is pissed about, I only scanned his last 50 posts lightly, but his exchange in the
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/so...-pleasant-vista-point-divers-instructors.html looks like an indicator. He got some very good suggestions from a very experienced member with a sound posting record that I have noticed, and
I think just took it wrong. Excerpting from the cave diver's post...
Sorry you're so thin skinned, Pete - as that makes it hard to learn from others. I've even learned from some real assholes who were quite intentionally trying to piss me off.
Us the Report button if you think you've been wronged, Report my post if you want to try it (I get chastised by Mods for my opinions at times, and try to adjust from there), but more so accept that opposing views are often offered by people who mean well, that much of the flaming is imagined, and that learning from them will help your life expectancy.