Dear Tumbarello: the length of my posts is legendary, sorry. The one you're talking about is small, by my standards. I always apologize, but I cannot avoid it. What I was doing here was being the moderator, until a couple of months ago.Tumbarello wrote:Ciro, with all due respect, your sarcasm and unbridled and uncritical admiration for Vettel is wearing thin. If you don't think mere mortals are fit to discuss motor racing, only to worship it, I wonder what you are doing here writing essay length posts.
Now, on the subject of my sarcasm, experience has showed me that is the best way to show the weaknesses of other arguments.
How my arguments are wearing thin escapes me: I have posted twice in the last three months. How can I wear somebody?
I agree with you on the possibility of mortals discussing motor racing: I've devoted 5 years of my life and I have helped Steven De Groote as much as I can to provide you with this very forum, something which should be proof of my intentions.
However, let me remind you of the wise words of Garfield the Cat: "Let your words be sweet, in case you have to swallow them". Why, right after the end of the championship, would somebody want to discuss a mistake in a race or how dumb was the WDC in a particular situation is hard to comprehend for me. If that's worshiping, well, then I am a member of the Sacred Church of Formula One of the Latter Day Drivers.
Allow me to disagree on this: aficionados should TRY to learn while they discuss. What I don't agree with is criticism motivated by envy or ignorance and I'm sure that people that posted here while I moderated still remember how hard I was on empty criticism.
This is a technical forum, not a place to comment "how retarded is the WDC" or "how boring is F1" or "how uninteresting and cold the end of this championship leaves me".
If you wish to find a place to post about THAT, please, by all means, go to Pitpass... there you will find minute analysis of ALL the mistakes of ALL the drivers and how GREAT are the driver people likes and the curious aspects of personality cult, or its sibling, "personality hate". If you did the same here, at least while I worked as mod, you risked having your post published in the "Ying Yang Fanboy Thread", so accusing me of worshiping Vettel could seem naive, at least to me.
We (and I speak for a sizable portion of posters, I'm sure) at this forum, hate the empty, easy, repetitive, unimaginative comments you can find in other forums at a dime the dozen.
I really hate comments pontificating about racing and criticizing drivers (any driver!) in posts that, when summed up and put together, are as boring and as lengthy as mine.
If you want to criticize something, criticize the cars and propose new ideas for their design, that's the way of the engineer. I've said many times that an engineer, watching a glass with water doesn't say "the glass is half empty" or "the glass is half full". An engineer says: "we have here half a glass we don't need".
It is very EASY to say things like "Nadal doesn't know sh*t about tennis". When Federer is talking and saying that, I listen. On the other hand, when it is a commentary by my fat, out-of-shape neighbor, I smile. Is that short and clear enough?
I bet some people prefers to "hear" me being sarcastic instead of direct... but fortunately, I don't have to restrain myself any longer. Now is DaveKillens turn to be restrained... so, you can count on my lengthy, boring and sarcastic posts from now on. I used to think they were part of the soul of F1Tech, but, hey, what do I know?
