Thanks Bob, one of the things I remember my grandmother teaching me as a child is "if you don't have something nice to say, say nothing at all". This concerted effort to attack me has been apparent for quite some time and is responsible in part for my low level of participation here over the past months. For a while now it seems every time I post a handful of characters chime in to attack me. As you so kindly pointed out, I have helped many people work through problems with their HM builds and contributed lots of ideas, designs, troubleshooting guides etc here. This had been an outstanding forum where good respectful people would gather to up their BBQ game utilizing the HM, and I was very into it for a while and eager to help others, but this new contentious posture here has taken the feel-good away for me and made me less likely to participate.
As an example, the recent posts about me not replying to request for my RD3 files, I never got an email or PM from this guy, still haven't. Yet right away there are the replies "see, he don't share", that is suspicious to me. Perhaps this guy that wants the files somehow sent the request to the wrong email, or has been too busy to follow up here... or perhaps it's all bogus and just an orchestrated excuse to post these attacks on me, with the nature of the internet you never really know. What I do know is this thread has been nearly idle for some time, then I get a post asking about the switch I use in my case, then "someone" go's on a campaign posting links to my case design "someone" shared on Thingiverse. Next comes the non-existing request for my RD3 files followed by attacks on me.... Working on the HM and participating here is a hobby for me, a hobby is supposed to be something that enhances your life, a pleasant way to pass your free time. Unfortunately participating here has become unpleasant for me due to this sort of thing and I don't need an unpleasant hobby....
The funniest thing about it is if you look at those claiming I don't share my designs, these guys are all printing my designs! Odd how they are printing them when I never shared them.... LOL The truth is I share my designs with people that I have good interaction with, people who are BBQ enthusiasts, but sometimes I don't share my designs with people that are rude and condescending to me when requesting them and people I sense want to start up a "HM stuff" store using my work. The RD3 is my design and so is the sliding back case, look who is printing them and look who is attacking me. It's more than ironic, I guess that's a kind way of putting it, that someone would take your work and then give you a hard time about it...
