Originally Posted by
bobeson
As a Tormach machine owner, I appreciate and value having a forum dedicated to discussions with fellow Tormach owners. However, I more often find value in learning from the experiences of fellow machinists in general, regardless of the brand of their machine. I see the fact that other machine owners are participating in discussions in the Tormach forum not as a nuisance but as a validation of the significance of the Tormach user community, and the amount of traffic occuring in this forum vs other machine forums seems to be testiment to the market-segment-leading position which Tormach has earned.
I don't see how discussions involving non-Tormach products is rude to the forum sponser at all. Blatent commercial promotion of competing products would be rude, for sure, but that's not what I'm seeing here. Instead, I do seem to be reading a lot of reactionary hostility from Tormach owners to non-Tormach owners, and I really don't understand the source of it. Sure, some of the folks posting here may be trolls and worthy of ignoring, but why stink up the overall atmosphere here with so much overt hostility in return? I say, let discussions go where they may, let thread originators nudge things back on topic when needed, but for goodness sake let's not discount the input of contributors based solely on the brand of machine they own!