To Bill Bolton: I'm with gpk, please focus on sharing and helping. That being said, I can't leave what you said go without comment.
billbolton wrote:I've have (sic) certainly posted when I see an unsupportable assertion..... such as the one above.... which have been appearing all too frequently in these threads.
Thanks Bill, it's great that we have you here to protect us from reading someone else's opinion. Not.
billbolton wrote:
Playing fast and loose with facts under the guise of "opinion" is never a good policy.
Who appointed you as the arbiter of good policy Bill? That's just such a pompous thing to say. In any case, "fast and loose with facts", "all too frequently"...what are you talking about? Where are
your facts?
Why don't you just lay off Nord and stick to making a positive contribution that will be helpful to others? Obviously I can't speak for others but I suspect that most people are not that interested in what Bill Bolton thinks is good policy, but they may be interested in what you have to say about your personal experiences with CPAP, your knowledge of different machines etc.
billbolton wrote:
To-the-point comments on specific issues are quite appropriate in discussion, whether you happen to like them or not.
...they might be Bill, if they were helpful. But you frequently seem to be just criticising or correcting other people. Although you appear quite knowledgeable you rarely seem to have anything positive or helpful to say, you seem more interested in a) trying to prove that you are right and b) using unneccessarily florid language and extraneous annoying punctuation to make yourself look "smart" . That's just my opinion, subjective and unsupported. Others may feel differently etc.
billbolton wrote:
Long ad hominum attacks (etc) are the things that are clearly about baiting people
I don't agree with everything that Nord said or the way he said it but I really think that
ad hominem is an inaccurate characterisation. As an example, if I asserted that Bill Bolton is wrong
because he writes in a pompous pedantic way that winds up other people, that would be an ad hominem attack. I think it's more a case of Bill Bolton is wrong
and he writes in a pompous pedantic way that winds up other people. That is personal and subjective, but it is not ad hominem.
I don't believe Nord is trying to bait you, he's just getting annoyed with you. I am too and I hope you will get back to making positive contributions and stop trying to lay down the law.