Left post rolloff.

[Bombay High]

Everyone else was fine with the answer(s) but it appeared to me that you weren't. You kept poking: "Machining reverse threads is easy", "unlearning the current way is okay", then you insinuate that the people answering have "an incredible level of ignorance".

This, to me, is why DIR divers get pegged as being mean. A question is asked. It's answered. Then the OP keeps poking and poking until someone finally... after what I feel were some very patient responses... slips up and possibly cops an attitude. Then someone says "see, that's why DIR folks are a-holes. All I did was ask a question."

The constant questioning, even if very genuine, starts to feel like trolling. Like someone who has beef with DIR and decides that they are going to go ask a question and not be happy with the answer just to start a fight. Sometimes it is very difficult to tell the difference between a troll and just a very curious person. I think that most folks assume very curious up front, but then begin to get frustrated depending on how the very curious person responds to answers.

I am sure your questions were valid and not meant to poke or antagonize, but if I was answering, after a while I would have gotten frustrated. This is just one of the many reasons I don't post much anymore. Because I turned into one of those DIR a-holes. I don't have the capability for patience online like Lynne, Lamont, and others to politely answer 99% of the time. I'm not that bad in real life though... well, I don't think so anyway

I would guess that you weren't trolling, but you did ask why it would be frustrating. To me, that would be why.

Chris

Honestly I am quite amused by your take on this. Maybe I fulfill your definition of a troll. But maybe you should read my posts again. Or maybe not. I think this is all a waste of time really. These discussions are probably better had with GUE divers in person, because I am interested in what they have to say, and I think intent is much clearer in person.
My diving has been mostly non-recreational, and I have been baffled by the casualness by which a lot of recreational divers approach diving.
The only organisation that seemed to differ was GUE. Hence my interest. But scubaboard is obviously not the right place to take that forward.

 

[Sat Diver]

Honestly I am quite amused by your take on this. Maybe I fulfill your definition of a troll. But maybe you should read my posts again. Or maybe not. I think this is all a waste of time really. These discussions are probably better had with GUE divers in person, because I am interested in what they have to say, and I think intent is much clearer in person.
My diving has been mostly non-recreational, and I have been baffled by the casualness by which a lot of recreational divers approach diving.
The only organisation that seemed to differ was GUE. Hence my interest. But scubaboard is obviously not the right place to take that forward.

Best drop this debate SS, you dont belong on this forum. You need to learn a bit more about DIR before asking hypothetical questions. Come on back to Offshore Diver ...

 

[RTodd]

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The constant questioning, even if very genuine, starts to feel like trolling. Like someone who has beef with DIR and decides that they are going to go ask a question and not be happy with the answer just to start a fight. Sometimes it is very difficult to tell the difference between a troll and just a very curious person. I think that most folks assume very curious up front, but then begin to get frustrated depending on how the very curious person responds to answers.

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Doesn't the avatar combined with the type of questions the OP seems to ask tilt this towards being a bit of a troll even if the OP pretends/ believes he isn't?

I have spent hours in caves where a large portion of the dive involved being in passages so small you were either rubbing your chest in the silt or contacting the ceiling (and often both). While I am religious about regularly checking my left post even in ridiculously large cave, I have never experienced any significant roll off. The only roll off I have ever seen was a right post actually in a very high flow cave that pushed a teammate that lost his handhold back out of the cave across the ceiling. Now we need to come up with a solution for this freak scenario, right?

My four year old understands lefty loosy/ righty tighty. Assuming someone is going to unlearn that so it is instinctual and react properly in an emergency combined with the need to switch back when using more traditional gear is a ridiculous premise.

 

[lamont]

Not at all worried .... but curious about what about my question would frustrate the moderator of this forum. Anyway ... got the answer to my original post .... or at least why the question should not be asked.

No, I'm more frustrated by your statements like:

"why has this not been something that has been even thought off."

Posted long after many people have given you not only evidence that it has been thought of, but the rationale against it.

(And yeah, probably shouldn't have posted the reference to the 'conspiracies' which was a reference to a deleted thread, which is just an indication I was getting frustrated with this thread).