Why are you pusing a valued REDUSER away?

[Timothy Carr]

After the negativity and absolute SH*T that when on in Ketch's thread, this was posted:

If the Community chooses to do to me what they have done on my "RAPE of a BEAUTY" tread and disrespect me, then it will be a bitter lesson, and of course also MY ABSOLUTE LAST THREAD in this Forum about any initiative, but I hope they see my Vision for this, and what it will mean to the Industry, Humanity and our Planet when I succeed.

I don't expect all to be in favor and joyfully cheering with me, but I expect the opinions to be voiced respectfully and constructively.

You are pushing him away, please stop guys! We need him here!

[Bruce Allen]

On the other hand, there were a lot of experienced folks who tried really, really hard to give good, honest advice - we just got labelled backstabbers and worse by a bunch of people who didn't even bother to read our posts.

Personally if I post a question on Reduser, I want people to tell me what they think of my idea - good and bad. Not just go "great! great! great!" even if they see serious problems.

If I have reservations about a project, I like to state them honestly BEFORE a Kickstarter gets started. Because that's too late to offer critical advice when someone posts "HERE'S MY KICKSTARTER!"

Anyway, that's why I'm on Reduser. If Reduser changes to a forum where nobody can take criticism then I am out for sure because I certainly aren't here for ego-stroking. I'm here to learn from people smarter and more experienced than me.

EDIT: and of course - find collaborators, give back advice when I can, communicate with the RED team, etc. But the real wealth of Reduser is the number of experienced people on here who give you their wisdom freely, without sugarcoating. Love it.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Tom Lowe]

It's not criticism of the type Bruce offered that is the problem ... it was the mean personal attacks, which have become all too frequent on this forum. They are souring the whole community, and they are going to end.

Anyway, enough of this drama queen shit. Let's drop this topic.