Recent reader rants

I’ve just a spate of quite nasty, negative comments which I’m a bit upset about. Luckily (or unluckily depending on your point of view) these appeared while I was laying in a hospital bed where I had no Wi-Fi access and only my ‘phone. Otherwise, I’d likely have simply deleted this blog in it’s entirety – I really don’t care and it’s only one mouse click to do so.

Now that I have access to my computer again and have had a few days to calm down, I’ve simply deleted those comments. As it’s my blog, I have full moderating rights. If people really want to take what I write out of context and rant about it, then I’ll simply disallow all comments.

So I’d just like to re-iterate the purpose of this blog by quoting my opening post:

The intended purpose of this blog/web site is that it will be a place where I can share my thoughts, ideas, experiments and general 3D printing related stuff. I have no affiliation to any 3D printer brands or manufacturers. What I write here will just be my own personal views and experiences. Hopefully some of the stuff I put on here will be useful or inspirational to the wider RepRap community. If not, well nobody is forcing to read any of it……..

Now it takes fair bit of my time and effort to put together some of these posts (which nobody is forcing anyone to read), for which I get no financial gain. I simply want to log my findings, as much for my own benefit than anything else. By putting them on the web, others can read them if they choose. I also give people the opportunity to comment if they wish to do so. I really don’t care if you agree/disagree but there is no need to get nasty. I’m simply logging my own experiences and of course many other users will have different experiences. Lets try and be a bit grown up about it though.

For example, my method for assembling the Diamond hot end is just that – it’s my method. Many people have problems with leaks around the heat sinks which I have never had. That is what prompted me to write my post. Merely to share the way that I do it, hoping that it may help others who have difficulties. Of course, other methods may work equally well or even better – I’m just saying “this works for me”

Despite making this clear in the opening paragraphs, I’ve been flamed for “telling people how to to assemble their hot end” and then blamed when it didn’t work for them. All I can say is that if you buy a cheap clone, then remember the old saying “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows’ ear”.

Another example is my experiences with certain filaments. I started that particular post with this:

As ever, these are just my personal experiences and I have no links with either eSun or E3D other than being a paying customer. Neither do I have any “axe to grind” or grudge against any company. What follows are just my own findings, on my machine and should not be taken as any recommendation or otherwise.

Yet I’ve just been blasted for “flaming eSun”. For sure there are bound to be hundreds maybe even thousands of happy customers but my own personal experience (which is entirely what this blog is all about) was not good.  It doesn’t take much intelligence to work out that what I received was a bad batch but that doesn’t detract from the fact that I had a less than satisfactory experience.

So what should I do? Tell lies to keep everyone happy? That isn’t going to happen so if you don’t like it, stop reading what I write – I just log my own personal findings.

Then to the person who summed up my printer as a pile of crap which would be the laughing stock of the TCT show, well sorry to disappoint you but take a look at this from about 7:50   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Xnb0XzlAs

It takes me time and effort to write these posts for which I get no reward. Nobody says you have to read these posts. If you have an alternative point of view, then start your own blog but don’t start a rant on mine.

I apologise that you can’t get back at me as I’ll simple delete any rants and if they get worse, I’ll disallow all comments. There is also the option of going to “settings – general” and clicking the link “delete your site permanently” which I came very close to doing.

Finally, it’ll likely be while before I post anything else as I just got discharged from hospital, with what seem the entire contents of a pharmacy, and a longish period of convalescence and numerous out patient tests yet to be conducted.

Ian