Guys & Gals,
I just sort of read that DC post by Mr.Witter....no ill feelings towards him directly, just an observation here.
It seems this forum due to its ever increasing popularity is now getting baraged by manufacturers and their representatives and being turned into an advertising platform both positively for their own cause and negatively towards their competitors. I have seen this happen on other groups where some people pose as just happy owners (which is far from the truth) and because of that I no longer am a part of them...currently this is the only forum I still belong to and that may change. In my opinion this is just a continuation of posts here by other companies and you all know how I feel about those . Irregardless of how some of you members feel, everytime a company or one of their reps posts here it is a direct advertisement....it does not matter if it is a answer to a question or not....you will always remember that they were here and answered that question. Human nature being the way it is you keep that in your mind the next time you go to order a product....and I am just about 100% positive that they know that.
In all fairness, if this is the way it is heading then ALL companies should be allowed to post here with no censoring of what they are allowed to say....they should be allowed to "hash it out" amongst themselves and then let us decide whom we want to deal with....sounds kind of interesting and bad at the same time doesn't it It is unfortunate that this forum seems to be heading that way ever so slowly because there are some very hard working people here (moderators, owners, web adm people, etc..) that put a heck of a lot of hard work to keep this place going. I understand some of there reasonings for allowing this to happen but at the same time do beleive it is a fine line that will be crossed and eventually overtake this place completely.
I have tried to add to this community by giving you all my experiences with my European Woodworking machinery. I knew nothing about them before I got involved with them and can understand completely anyone's relunctancy to use and buy these types of "odd looking machinery". All of my information is from my first hand experience with them not made up info or with the intent to sell anything as I have nothing no product to sell.
I sure hope things can go back to the way they use to be...but I am not sure if the line has already begun to blurr