I think this thread is salvageable. So it will remain open.
However, the posts need to center on the knives, not on other posters.
This is General Forum. Leave out the profanity and references to it.
I've gotten a lot of great information off this site and have seen your experienced commentary all over for years. Just wanted to drop a note, now that this thread is long dead. What happened here is that I got trolled. I came with good will and what I got was the following:
1. What are you talking about "hard use"? That's not a subjective term that depends on context, there's just one way to look at it and you got it wrong, idiot.
2. So you're doing a comparison and concluding that yeah, they're different. D'uh. (Never mind the detail I went into on design and execution for relative price.)
3. Your nephew is a chump. Jump school don't mean jack. (I suspect this is the one who flagged me to you. I could be wrong, but I know the type.)
As a moderator you then intervened and swept the trolling under the rug and came down on me for my justified defense because I used phonetics to depict a letter of the alphabet and you called that "profanity". But then you magnanimously said you'd keep the thread open because it was "salvageable".
Your comment activated your followers to come and give me positive comments, and I thank them for it -- I know they were genuine and heartfelt. But it doesn't change the fact that the thread wasn't "salvageable", *you* salvaged it. It doesn't cover the fact that you've got a troll problem here. The people looking to post responses to new threads, especially by newbies like me, have sociopathic tendencies. Very mild ones, just online troll tendencies, but that is what they are. And this thread is textbook.
They clearly and actively sought to give me a bad experience. Don't get me wrong, I don't really care -- if you'd let us I'd counter-troll them so hard it would be great fun. But this isn't that kind of venue and I understand that. If you want it to be what you seem to be claiming and you want to attract a stream of new contributors, this is something that probably should be addressed.
Just thought you should hear it straight up.