What is "bashing" anyway?

Richard Murdey wrote:

I need to get this off my chest:

Richard,  I think it would help if you use the acronym IMO (In My Opinion) more often.

dpreview is not a fan site.

For instance IMO would have helped with the above line.

The forums are governed by mutual courtesy, not mutual allegiances.

Actually, it's weakly moderated (A good thing, IMO) and a set of written rules.

People are free to voice their concerns, frustrations, anxieties, annoyances, and vexations numerous and various as they please.

Except for those pesky rules I mentioned.

And I think some people around here would do well to keep that in mind.

If you don't want to hear people make critical statements about Pentax, go to somewhere like Pentaxforums where they play Pentax fan service all day, everyday.

Buncha' loosers, IMO. 

I've been around a while. Since before the *ist D to be exact. One of the formulative experiences observing the forums back in the day was when people started comparing the D80 to the K10D. Pentax fans would insist the K10D was better than the D80 because of (laundry list of features including weather sealing and shake reduction). On the Nikon side of things, people were more concerned about whether they should buy the D80 or the D200. (.....) Anyone who made an objective comparison between the D80 and K10D, however, soon arrived at the conclusions that the AF system on the D80 was miles ahead of the one on the K10D.

We need a new term for the above I think.  How about Histo-bashing?  Def: Bashing a product from history that modern readers might not have any knowledge of. 

This was met by certain vocal members of the Pentax community in one of three ways,

1) insistence that the K10D AF was good enough so who cares?

Who even knows?

2) rationalization that it didn't matter because the K10D was cheaper

3) rationalization that it didn't matter because the K10D had weather sealing, SR, etc. and the D80 did not

So they made good counter-arguments did they?

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ad nauseum
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You should really learn to be a little more thick-skinned.

I mostly root for what I see as the underdog brand.  Unless, of course, you refer to someone else by 'you'.

Stop seeing criticism of a camera or company as a personal insult. No one at Nikon forums does this! We all rip into Nikon with gusto at every opportunity, for the D600 oil spots, for the D750 flare issure, D800 focus alignment, the D7000 buffer, the D7100 sensor, for the poor profits, for not making a full frame mirrorless camera ... then Nikon puts out the D500 and we all go crazy and do virtual high fives and fist bumps.

That forum is a virtual love-in.  And the years I spent posting there were...  No different than any other camera forum I've participated in.  After we got rid of all those haters complaining about the oil-squirter D600, that is.  This is sarcasm, BTW.  However, has any one ever heard of selective memory?

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So stop taking it personally.

I hope you won't take me poking a little fun personally.

Stop being so dogmatic about insisting everything about Pentax must be great. There are lots of things to like about Pentax cameras, but plenty of things to complain about too.

So much humor so little time.

Cheers.