by Lewn777 on Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:55 am
I forgot one thing, the main forum blight:
These are the newbie wannabies. They come from a highly narcissistic snowflake direction, and feel that it's a god-given right to attack 'wrongness'. I hope they are genuinely interested in bikes, and not purely a troll kind of internet cancer.
The problem with these people is that they seem so desperate to 'be an expert', but they know very little, and almost nothing from personal experience, as they have practically zero. To compensate they do extensive reading, and try to build a high post count. They read out-of date material and hold it as gospel and gravitate to their preferred favorite experts.
The problem then comes with anything that is then said which could be merely to engage polite debate, which could be something a tad controversial. For them the slightest differentiation from their preferred viewpoint is then a heresy and even the smallest deviation from dogma is blood in the water. They then go in with full child-like guns blazing with a full shark-attack attempting to tear apart their victim as truth must be defended at all costs.
The sad truth is a real expert would be interested as why you might have a differing opinion, they may change their perspective when given your viewpoint, you may concede you were wrong, or what usually happens is you were both right, from your own understanding of the question. The internet troll noob could never manage this, for them everything is purely black and white.
In truth some of the elitist views are actually expressed by people with barely a clue, and simply followers of an accepted fashion, the more 'sure' they are of what they are saying, the less they know and the thinner their veneer. They hide behind the anonymity of an internet forum to pretend to be something bigger than they are. A true expert would understand the vastness of what they don't know.
