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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1017227, member: 15199&quot;]&quot;Expert&quot; is something that is eventually earned, and not self acclaimed. The earning of respect for the knowledge that a person has accumulated doesn&#039;t happen over night or sometimes never. To be an expert a person has to be able to separate the proven from hearsay, able to validate his opinion, and if his opinion is not received by others, reevaluate himself and his opinion. </p><p><br /></p><p>On any forum or other public discussion, there will be those who are not use to being contradicted in public ( even though mainly anonymous), and feel they must retort with rancor to save face. These are people to avoid as nothing positive happens in conversations with them, and to drop to their level by continuing arguments will serve no good purpose. However,I do believe that these leopards can change their spots over a period of time, they are just used to being the center of their universe in their mind, and reality can bite hard at times.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are very knowledgeable and considerate people on this forum, but some members have never seen a thread they didn&#039;t feel they had to comment, whether they know anything about it or not, and this tends to cause many who could contribute to pass on to another. The majority of the experts still seem to be here, just they are more selective in what threads they participate. All in my opinion.</p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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