There was a time that I left out a key element (which I should have included) and I started to get angry with the responses I was getting. That incident was completely my fault.
There was another time when I wanted to make my wife a Jamaican Me Happy clone that she wanted. I found a malt beverage recipe that I liked (which is what the real product is, a malt beverage), but it had Kool Aid for flavoring. I asked for input here on using Kool Aid for flavoring. All anyone wanted to tell me is that I shouldn’t make it as a malt beverage, I should make it as a wine. Nothing I could say could get people to stop telling me to make it as a wine. Whether I’m an experienced brewer or not, if I say I’m going to use a particular method, and I have a question about a specific part, that’s what should be addressed - not that I shouldn’t use the method I have decided to use. I don’t recall getting any answers to my actual question there. I kept asking my question, and people kept answering another. That thread eventuallly turned to me getting insulted for wanting to make a malt beverage. It was never going to give me information that I wanted. I kept asking for it to be deleted. Finally, Josh deleted it for me. There could not be a more useless thread than that one was.
When a member asks a question, and another member backs up from that question (What bench capper should I buy? Use a wing capper instead), I find it to be insulting, as if the reply was saying, “Look, you don’t even know what question you should be asking. Here’s the way you should be thinking...” Almost nobody here is brand spanking new. We’ve all brewed at least a couple batches. Nobody is asking which kind of swamp water to use. Considering this thread, the OP asked what kind of bench capper he should use. He didn’t ask whether he should use one. Yet that was most of the replies. I’d rather get no replies than a tangential reply. Once a thread goes off course, it rarely comes back.
Thanks for your patience, everyone. This is something I’ve wanted to say for a long time. Whether you heed it or not is up to you. It’s not my forum. I don’t expect everyone to follow my advice. I appreciate you considering it just the same.