Finally, a rational post from you.
I agree about your post.
I just don't get why it took all of the last 5-6 posts for you to accept what I was seeing. Why do you automatically disregard what I saw, instead of giving me the benefit of the doubt? Do you think I come on here to intentionally mislead people and give false information?
I didn't automatically disreguard your findings, I actually accepted your findings because I haden't got my BlackTip samples yet, then I got my samples and measured them only to find out what I posted and you see in my picture above.
You however were knocking BlackTip from you first post when even at that time you knew nothing about them or even had seen their samples, so of course after reading your 'findings', then seeing/measuring what I found, I definitly doubted your ability to report honest findings. Your opinion was skewed from the start.
Remember a few posts back I said "If you want to shut me up all you have to do is show me hard facts"? Well you finally posted a pictures of your findings instead of just telling me "Well my eyes tell me there is a difference in thickness". You have to be reasonable, why would I believe that knowing that you didn't really like BlackTip from the start and my findings were completely different?
Once you posted a picture, that ends my questioning your findings because I can see it for myself and elimates the possibility of you having a bias.
If you would have posted that picture to begin with, It would have saved alot of headache.
I come here to learn and to help others with knowledge I may posess, and I take it that is why you are here too. But allow others to have different opinions without immediately becoming combative about it. And in this thread, why was it not possible that some "samples" of mats could possibly be different than yours?
I do allow others to have a different opinion, however if something is stated as fact like "The sky is yellow", I know the sky is blue not yellow so I am going to try to put out the correct information and not just allow the person to convince everyone else that the sky is really yellow, ESPECIALLY if I posted first that the sky was blue and the post "The sky is yellow" was posted to directly argue with my origional post about the sky being blue. (Obviously this is just an example).
Now if the same person posted "IMO I think the sky is yellow, I know I don't have any proof or fact to back that up, it's just what I think" then I would not say a word because they did not say it in a way that challenged my information and they said it was just their opinion and not based on any fact. THAT is allowing someone to have their own opinion.
You do come off as being very arrogant, this is not name calling, it is a valid observation. I choose to come to this forum and not some of those "others" because the people here are not like that and they treat everyone else like they are a friend right from the start.
It's not that I'm arrogant, I do ALOT of research and information digging about ALOT of things, I'm a facts person. Alot of people like to believe whatever the news tells them, or a commercial, or a magazine, or an advertisement, etc. I couldn't care less, I want to see cold hard facts before I believe any of it.
I don't post on something I don't know anything about, I just ignore the post all together, IF I do post on something that I have an opinion about but no facts, I will state that It's my opinion, or that I've been told by a reliable sorce, etc.
You seem to post your opinions like they are fact and that's where we have issues. Especially if you post a skewed opinion before you have ANY facts to back it up.
The problem with the internet in general with forums, blogs, magazines, etc is that the majority of information out there is opinions, bias information and all around not fact based information. It makes it hard for me, you, everyone when you want information about a product or service, etc and you do your research to spend your hard earned money on the right product/service the first time only to find out that you didn't because the information you read in your research was not fact but opinion or bias information (Many times in advertising/reviews payed by the manufactures to be bias).
That said, I do hope in the future we can both maybe be more open minded to the information we both share and accept the differences of each others point of views.
Good.
-TheChad
. I never doubted your findings. I actually used yours to help my conclusion.
