Okay. So you have read everything or nearly everything I have had to say about forums. You find it some degree of over-the-top, a lot of people do. That's fine. But perhaps you should reread the examples I give of what these forums are saying, what they are disseminating. Really. It's incredible stuff, maybe not to you, but it is to a career mechanic.

Besides, it's one thing to say everyone has their own tastes, their own opinions, their experiences, preferences, etc. But forums aren't restaurants. And they're not music retailers. Forums aren't dealing in the purely subjective. Their commodity is facts. Tangible, provable, repeatable truth. Objective reality. At least they're assumed to be. And that's what makes them harmful.