would someone with innocent intent post on a Bike forum I dont know why you wouldn't use a car.....
Yes, I would.
Similarly, on one of the expedition forums I am on, that has subforums that deal with a few different types of transport, I may well suggest a boat is a better option.
It is inevitable on certain sorts of forums that the right answer does not accord with someone's preferred pet answer.
I saw it happen here again here the other day in the General Forum. Someone was asking about what type of knife was the best type for outdoor pursuit X. Several people threw in their big ole knife recommendations. A couple of people that knew about pursuit X accurately said that not much of any kind of knife was needed at all. And that was the truth of it. That pissed some people off, and you could hear their cries of but this is Blade Forums. Well, well done Sherlock I thought. Does that mean we have to be dishonest about pursuit X just to accommodate other stuff that interests us. Are you not big enough to be able to enjoy one whilst simultaneously accepting the truth of the other. From the tenor of the posts one guy was chucking out no. He was way too small. One had to go. The dissonance was clearly too much for him to sustain.
Suppose we were all on a forum because we were into collecting sundials. Some bloke rolls up saying, I'm going on a trip X and I need a really accurate time piece, what to you suggest?. It would not be unreasonable for someone that knows about trip X to say actually mate, nothing against sundials but you'd be a goon to drag one of those along when you can grab a Casio from a garage from a few quid that'll be a far better choice. Surely we could all see that the if the sundial-tinted-window mob then chime in with but this is Sundial Forums, so the answer must be some sort of sundial it would be daft. The tragedy is that when an equivalent thing happens here people do not see it. Yes this is a knife forum, but knives don't exist in a vacuum, they have context.
That is especially true in this subforum which is just as much about the context as it is about knives. Surely, when the goal is to solve a problem in a context we can happily say, If you want to cut your hair in the woods get some scissors not a hairdressing knife, get a hatchet or machete not some big stabby clown thing for fighting in an arena, even in the woods you are better off shaving your face with a razor than using a skinning knife, and so on.
I know this all sounds really stupid and obvious. But that's really the point. The next time you see someone go but this is a knife forum remember how obvious the counter is, and how stupid they are being.
Will take pics of the little grove plus maybe some video. It will be my first wild edibles thread in months.
