If you are a student of human behavior, automobile forums are a great place to study. The anonymity combined with a man's feeling that he has to be an expert in things automotive often brings out aggression and defensiveness when others don't agree. This I have not seen in other types of forums. I belong to a computer forum and everyone is extremely helpful, courteous and kind. Happy Father's Day to all.
Wyle
That's such an interesting observation and now that I think about it, in art forums or digital designer forums everyone is more humble and helpful. Hmm, so interesting. Just the same, I miss getting help from the guys here. As I said though, it's simply too uncivil most of the time and it was bringing me down. No one likes to feel ripped off and especially from other Lexus owners. I spent a lot of money on this car and I feel great about it, well until after this creepy negative forum. My sister has a MB and I have friends with BMWs and they all have complaints. The fact is that we should just see that we have a great life to be a part of and this kind of negativity was simply getting tiresome. But to each his own and I do wish everyone much happiness. Rey
BBS decorum. Interesting subject. I've been on the Internet in similar sites for years. There will always be nasty people posting obnoxious text and commentary. Controversial topics, which most are or become, will bring out the self-proclaimed experts. If you are overly sensitive to this unfortunate reality, then you will be offended, defensive, and over react.
As automotive related sites go, this site is one of the more civil I've been on, and probably because we have some great moderators and managers. I commend them for their work, I'm sure it's not an easy or fun job.
And, I assume also that the people who would frequent a Lexus site would be interested or own a Lexus, and that they may have just a tad more interest in understanding the "ownership" issues of a more expensive vehicle.
I know that since I spend lots of time communicating via email in my career, I am never suprised to get a response from one of my emails that clearly was because the person reading it didn't understand my message, or read something into it that wasn't there, or imagined a "tone" because they don't know how I think. Without voice intonation, it can be difficult for the average "non-literary" genius to compose words that say everything you want to say without writing a novel.
Rey, remember.... if it weren't for those "evil, wicked, nasty" people, us good people wouldn't go to heaven!
That's just my worthless opinion.
Randy I agree with you, I've made that same comment before about misconceived tones and inflections.
Rey, sorry you feel that way and hate to see you leave