Could it not be said that your statement highlighted that you maybe care a little too much about what people on forums say?
Seb was superb today, be happy with that.
That advice from one of F1's doom-mongers. Ok then...
At least a promising performance from SV has got all your peckers back up!
I don't know why I'm wasting my time with this.
Of course I care, because this forum has a small bunch of members with whom I thoroughly enjoy conversing.
The sad part is that few of them waste their time in the F1 threads because the genuinely interesting/funny discussion always gets drowned out by petty arguing over who's right and posts like the above gem, 'did you even watch qualifying?' Why the eff do you care?
It's got nothing to do with me. It's got to do with the fact that if there were less annoying b73ching contests about how valid/invalid someone internet forum wacko's opinion was (self-reference here, btw), the F1 threads here would be more enjoyable. Posts like the above (mine, yours, and perhaps including this one) should be laughed out of here rather than propagated through some twisted internet version of natural selection in which the end goal is a massive waste of time and a lot of angry mods.
What you're reading is an admission that I want to highlight this and change it but don't know how other than what I'm doing (meaning that there's a good chance this effort is some bizarre stoichiometric combination of misguided good intention and futile railing against 'the machine').
The end of your post and P123's is a perfect example of what's wrong with RC's F1 threads. Racing is so much more than 'my driver' and the assorted fanboy wars. It's about having a good time--something which gets hard to do everytime I dare to think that I might venture into an F1 thread and have a shot at discussing anything for fun because everyone feels a need to defend their driver's internet status. You ever wonder why normal racing fans consider internet forums a waste of time? It's the mentality of the replies to my earlier post, right here. Sadly the F1 threads that do get amusing find a way to get themselves locked (chicken[s] come to mind). I've already had an ignored gripe about this earlier in the year.
And FYI, because I'm sure you won't be satisfied until the troll-like questions are answered, I did watch qualifying. Do you want to know why 'my peckers are up' this weekend? Look no further. There's so much fun that's gone on in racing this past week, and F1 is not the center of that universe.
You guys don't need to tell me I'm stupid and/or naive for expecting the atmosphere in these threads to change, either. I'm coming a little closer to that conclusion each time I drop in. The best part is that you guys don't even see that things could be better because you don't ever bother to read other parts of the forum enough, so you don't have any idea where I'm coming from anyway. No big deal. As I said, I'm not that bright, so even if this gets deleted and the mods go all DEFCON 1 on me I'll probably be back again anyway in the hope that one day, in defiance of all probabilistic theorems, the second law of thermodynamics, and some long forgotten Greek prankster gods, my synapses fire in precisely the right way, I get things right, don't come off as an a#$hat, and you guys actually get a taste of what it is you're missing elsewhere on here and I might actually cause something to change. Thoreau and one man and all that. 
Edited by Afterburner, 28 March 2015 - 18:03.
), but I disagree about them being like a clique. The atmosphere in those is very similar to an internet version of a post-race worker social with a race on in the background.
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