luarca wrote:
I just was posting my experience not arguing with anyone.
Thanks for your report, I read it but did not comment on the thread prior to it being locked. The content of your race report were interesting for me to read outside the Dimond aspects. Actually I pretty well find every race report interesting. I wish more people not at the very pointy end would post their race reports (not yours, it was a pointy end report) because I think we learn more from mid pack than front of pack. Also I wish more people would post when their races were not successful. We learn most from race failures than successes. By the way I was actually surprised that you were mentally swayed by some of the banter on the forum relative to the robustness/safety aspects at all.
As for the topic at hand on this thread, I hope this means both parties are settling their differences and moving on in a constructive way. Most of us are fans of most gentleman in this dispute. I think the internet tough guys are generally being particularly harsh on Rapp for flip flopping on what he communicated publicly. It's a pretty fine line when you are being paid to do marketing and the engineering shop in the factory is fixing up "features" and you still have to go into the public domain and market knowing/hoping that it all gets taken care of. It's not an easy job, but you hope when you go to take the hill under enemy fire, the Air Force is going to provide you with aerial cover and you won't get killed in the ambush out there. That's really the crux of this. The front line guy is only as good as the aerial cover. The front line guy kind of has to push on in the mission assuming central command has him covered.
I also think for everything Jordan has put into the community he has some entitlement to see if people want to support him. Those who don't don't need beat him up. We've all benefited from his work (both paid, but a ton of it unpaid volunteer community service). I view it that he has paid forward towards community goodwill. You guys can choose to have a different view and that's fine. I've already made my position on Dimond known on other threads, so I won't rehash that. I say you guys (collectively, really all of us including myself) cut him some slack for both putting up and subsequently taking down the GoFundMe.