hans05 wrote:Oh dear, another person who is impolite [...] Is politeness a lost art? Has respect been lost in the last years?
I don't disagree with your suggestion that people deal with eachother in a respectful wayy.
However, how is the recommendation to check your facts (do a little research/homework first) before making certain statements/postings considered disrespectful ?
Really, that's a genuine question.
As a matter of fact, many people around here would consider it disrespectful to see someone posting here without doing said homework first, because that implies that the corresponding party considers their time more worthy than our's, which carries across the notion of asking for said "homework" to be spoon-fed to such a person ? Especially, if the corresponding pointers, and links, have been provided to enable the corresponding person to actually do some of their legwork before asking others to set the record straight by pointing out ill-informed assumptions ?
I don't have to agree with everything that bugman or Thorsten said, but can still disagree with some of the points you have made - yet, you're turning this into a completely different debate.
And to be honest, I don't have any agenda here at all - I am not involved in any aircraft development or repository maintenance, and if you were to do a little of your own research first, you'd also learn that there are countless topics where you'll find me on opposing ends of the debate, even disagreeing with people like Thorsten, bugman, Curt or others considered by many to be "part of the establishment".
I was merely pointing out that you are doing the exact same thing that you are asking others not to do with your own statements: assuming what they think/do, and in that particular case, I actually digged out a relevant posting proving that you cannot simply assume that things are as they seem to you - which is very well supported by the removal of the Honda jet, which is a rather compelling example to be made given the scope of this discussion.
I am sorry that you apparently don't have the time look up the details, but I am not sorry for pointing out that it is disrespectful to expect others to set the record straight, because someone is unwilling to do some of their own legwork first.
If you think this is a language issue (I am not getting the impression that is the case though), I'd suggest to consider posting in your native language - we've contributors from all over the world, and Curt recently mentioned in another topic that 20% of the website visitors are in fact from Germany - so there's certainly no shortage to have comments or even postings translated.
Personally, I am staying out of this, even though I agree with some of the points you made and disagree with quite a few that bugman made, but I don't exactly subscribe to your attitude, or rather, your notion of entitlement - which is pretty mistaken in my opinion. Anyway, good luck to you - regardless of your "intentions" here ...