If you want to bash DIR diving, do it in another forum. If you want to bash a solo diving, independent tank wearing $%&0K3, do it elsewhere as well. We all know they aren't DIR.
The intent isn't to bash DIR. There is an interesting phenomena among GUE trained divers that one doesn't encounter with recreational divers trained by other agencies, nor does it seem to be found in cave divers as well. Long before I was involved in technical diving, GUE and DIR, many of my friends and acquaintances got into cave diving. They never bashed those of us who were diving like open water divers while they were developing their new found techniques. We had fun diving together. They also had respect for the varying skills and experiences that each person brought to the table.
What's missing today is respect for "outside" accomplishments and I'm confounded by the mystery of how that respect for others has diminished or vanished in light of the DIR movement. While DIR has made a huge splash in the industry with many positive contributions the most negative repercussion of DIR is the ripples of persecution that is widespread. The joke among other technical divers is "DIR: It's not about how well you dive, but how good you look diving." This comes from DIR trained divers getting their feet dialed in without much experience and then persecuting others for not being DIR. Even in Floater's case, you can tell that he's DIR despite his errors because he believes in the system, yet you just dumped on him for making decisions that were not compliant with DIR. My problem was being attacked by another proponent of DIR for being 30 or 40 feet from my buddy. It's like religion. Knock. Knock. Do you believe in DIR. Yes, I do. I believe in DIR. No, we mean do you
really believe in DIR? Yes, I think I do. I've been trained to Tech 2 and Cave 2 and I dive with my DIR buddies most of the time. What do you mean
most of the time? Well, sometimes I dive solo on shallow reefs.
Blasphemer!
To remind the DIR crowd to have some respect, one they've taken fundies and they are riding through the streets of Rome in their minds like some conquering general being given tribute, I'm posting grievances in the same light as the one standing in the chariot whispering, "You're just a man," so have some manners and respect.
When you get more and more people acting like Jarrod's Witnesses and add them to the usual suspects of jerkdom we get more people behaving badly and in my location and career I see it more often in vocational and avocational endeavors. 
