My, my, Sean, we DO get sensitive.
I am perfectly capable of pointing out that I was referring to YOUR posts if that is what I meant.
But my post had nothing to do with your integrity, it was more about my perception of your hypocrisy: you do seem to have completely different standards for DirecTV enthusiasts and their hopes than for VOOM's fans and theirs.
No, (to make this crystal clear) in my original post I was referring to the post after post after post on the VOOM sites claiming (what turned out to be) the wildly extravagant, not to mention inaccurate sub claims for VOOM.
I am very capable of having missed one of your posts cautioning that such exuberance was perhaps misplaced, but I don't remember any such post coming from the "Resistance Is Futile" camp.
I continue to be amazed at the depth of your antipathy to DirecTV and people who enjoy its service (and your seeming joy in posting that childish "Resistance Is Futile" full color VOOM ad at every opportunity on DirecTV threads).
I also notice that at least one thread over in the VOOM section specifically (and not very politely) instructed DirecTV partisans NOT to post their comments.
And since, as you correctly note, this IS a DirecTV thread, do you think perhaps someone who is a moderator might use a tad more decorum?
It would seem to me that there is a spectacular opportunity for Scott and you all here to embrace DBS. You already have better than 10% of all VOOMers as members. But perhaps not alienating the rest of us could be a good idea until it becomes clear that VOOM will survive.
Because otherwise, with your arrogance and hostility, if things don't turn out the way you'd like for VOOM, this could end up as popular as a Betamax, 8-track, or Yugo forum.
You being a moderator and all (and so interested in free speech in the DirecTV forums), I was a bit surprised (not!) that I didn't see you standing up for free speech over in that VOOM cocoon.
You want to have it both ways: every single negative story, rumor or fantasy about DirecTV should be shouted from the rooftops. Every failure of VOOM needs to be explained away and folks who have the audacity to mention such get zapped.
So, let's make this plain: I never (even off-handedly) attacked your integrity in my original post.
I admire your exuberance and tenacity in sticking up for what you hope and believe.
But your total lack of fairness, objectivity, and respect for other people when their points of view run counter to yours, coupled with your continual and heavy-handed attempts to trash DirecTV in IN THE DIRECTV FORUM forum seem to be without question childish and often sophomoric.
Question your judgment?
You bet.
But if I were to question your integrity I would at least have the common decency to send you a pm, and not question it in so public a forum.