Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
Only offering a suggestion for a workaround. I wasn't basically suggesting anything else but that. I was trying to be helpful, and certainly didn't expect the analogy or comments that have been used in the reply. I can't control the features availability of the different versions either. Enough said.
You know, it rather saddens me when you say you "didn't expect" the analogy, for that suggests (at least to me) that you genuinely didn't see the parallels until after I alluded to them. Having said that, it also strengthens my believe I was right in knocking at it, if not but for that very reason.
As for your helpful intentions - and I believe you when you say that, you genuinely thought you were doing that - except, I'm afraid the first half of what you said rather speaks against that statement (the bit I deliberately didn't quote in my initial reply). I mean, I'm sure you thought you were merely offering some explanatory insight on how things are and why, but well...when an 'explanation' is offered on an undesirable situation (especially without being asked for), it tends to translate into a justification. And even if you had been telling us anything new there (you weren't, at least not to me), then explainable doesn't equal acceptable.

Then came the 'advice' to top it off - offering a "just use our tools and do like the mass do" is not a "workaround", it's a blatant disrespect for how things are at our side of the table! What made this even more unfortunate for you, is that I happened to be one of those who has heard the same line on tune on a much larger scale, hence my somewhat intense reactions.

Final point: Of course I'm not holding you accountable for the way things are, I don't know where you got that one from - just don't defend it! Things are crappier at our end of the table, and we have every right to keep pointing that out and fight for it to improve.

Nuff said?

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should!
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