Hi.
I've been actively participating in the internet since Geocities chat room was the hoot, the non plus ultra, the wow, you get to chat with irish girls! place.
As a hobby, I'm a magician. I got to publish my own magic tricks, in english, circa 2002, 2003, in several online magic magazines. Also, I created, before that, an email list, and a forum, called Altacartomagia, wich got pretty serious and big.
Then, I got my law degree, begun to work as an attorney, and stopped doing magic. Started several other hobbies, since a year and a half ago o so, the new cool thing in town in my house is knives. I have been a member of several forums through the years.
Ok.
Whenever I had a doubt on any knives, if I did a search on google, this site would come up. Always. With the better content, and clarity.
This is very important to understand: this site has te better, most accurate, and scientific content.
When you search about any subject, what you do is called heuristics, translated from greek, gathering. But once you gather, you do hermeneutics, wich means interpretation.
You try to understand and organice what you have gathered.
Doing the hermeneutics on the search results, I saw that if you get a review from, say, Amazon, it's the review of average joe. Great knife, my boyfriend loved it kinda stuff.
The same thing in youtube. In youtbe, I hate specifically what they call unboxings, first impressions, tabletop reviews...I got this knife, it's black, look, it has a pointy part...
When I wanted to go deep on a subject, THIS FORUM was and is the place.
Pics, videos, reviews, pros and cons...all HERE.
Why did I told you about my past on the internet, being a lawyer, participating in various hobbies and forums...???
Because I have a great capacity to be a troll. A litigator lawyer has the ultimate training to be the ultimate troll.
But since I truly love knives, I would chop off my arms rather than trolling in here. Because I would be alienating myself from the best place on the net about knives.
So, don't do it, man.
Use this place. They could very well one day put a password to the site, only alllwing paying members access. They could automatically ban you.
Your very existence is proof that what you say is wrong. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here.
Don't do it. Use this wonderfulfull of resources and generous place. Why bring a hammer and start hitting the bricks because you don't like some details of a construction it isn'tyoursand that they let you use freely? Would you get to the Louvre, or the MOMA, with a hammer concealed, and saying I don't agree with this or that, and start chopping the place?
Now, imagine this. The security guards, instead of mace your face and call the police, they sit with you and try to convince you of the wrongness of your ways, and say to you: don't do it again, you can keep walking admiring the art, you can keep your hammer, but if you do that again, we are going to take you to the streets.
And then, you stand up above a table, naked, and start screaming: they are threatening to ban me! poor me!
Yeah, come to blade forums, a place full of custom makers, a place full of big and well respected companies, and support counterfeiting. You are trying to be disruptive.
You are hammering the place, when you should be enjoying it.
You are complaining, when you should be grateful.
Be grateful.
) so that I may contribute positively and choose not to fuel negativity by insulting others simply for not agreeing with either me or another member. I am not an "anarchist". I am just a person who generally doesn't like to be unnecessarily mean or rude to people, even when I disagree strongly with them, whether I would be doing so as an exercise of power or just because I've had a bad day. It is very difficult to feel like a member of a "community" when you are routinely reminded that, if you don't STFU and get with the program, you will be a blip in history here. This isn't about being "singularly special". This is about making a choice not to treat others badly/rudely just because they may have exhibited these behaviors themselves or, worse still, because they don't agree with us. Anyway, I've nothing more to add so moving on...
