sharkbitejeff
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I agree bashing of the questions deters people from wanting to ask anymore questions. Anyone can look up my record here. That is precisely why I stopped asking anything.
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Sounds like you have been hanging out in the DIR forum. If it wasn't for posters like TSandM (Even she had to justify herself in this thread) and some others, the DIR folks would have a really bad name. Sucks because some of my best friends are DIR and they are nothing like the way some DIR folks come across on the board (I cringe at the word DIR because of the stigma behind it).
When talking about meeting someone in person and finding a different tone, one of the Scubaboard members here said at our local club dive to us, "You guys are nothing like the DIR guys on the board." The bad name precedes the DIR community as a whole because of a few posters. Point being don't take a few bad apples as the way the whole community is.
Fortunately most people are good hearted and willing to help others. :cool2:
I really like the idea of an un-thank you button Although it probably would be abused
That had been my experience until about a year and a half ago. I'd always heard that "DIR divers" were real butt pirates, but every person that I had met who was DIR or GUE trained (UTD wasn't around at this point) had always been nothing other than pleasant. Then one day while on vacation in the cayman islands with my girlfriend, as we're setting up our gear we hear a loud "Oh my god!" from behind us. A local dive master (maybe instructor) had seen our long hoses and correctly identified us as diving dir (or whatever you'd like to call it). He then went on a tirade about how he had done his fundies and anybody who hadn't couldn't dive and how people would pick on him for his long hose but they all dove crappy equipment setups and he hated being on an island where nobody knew how to dive. I though "Ah, that's where the whole dir divers = turds mentality comes from". Fortunately he's been the only bad apple I've come across, at least in terms of attitude.
I really like the idea of an un-thank you button Although it probably would be abused
Here is the question..Why in the world from time to time, more frequent than less, do we bash the crap out of each other with crass remarks and holier than thou attitudes, making fun of one another and exclaiming this is the only and right way to do things?
Problem with the DIR forum is that most of the consistently nastiest people in there are not DIR ... they just come there looking for an argument. Almost all the train wrecks in that forum have nothing to do with DIR and everything to do with someone who felt slighted at some point in his life by a supposed DIR person.
Gets a little repetitious after a while, actually ... you can almost predict the script as you watch the trains slowly approaching each other on the same track ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
This poster has said "Un-Thank You" to GeorgeC for this un-useful post.
This was what I had thought I was alluding to in my post. I think I'll just drink muddy water and live in a hollow log.
I though "Ah, that's where the whole dir divers = turds mentality comes from".
But really, is there a need to continue the bias? When we dehumanize one person, we dehumanize everyone. While I applaud Bob's point that the guy in question was probably a DIR Wannabe rather than true DIR, it doesn't help to refer to him with a pejorative. There were a number of people who were impressed with GI3's bombastic style and chose to emulate it. It really had little to do with DIR except that accepting this diving style was merely one way to imitate Trey.Did the turd mention whether or not he succeeded in passing the class?