>I think you are absolutely correct about everything you said. I also think his personal attacks - like all personal attacks on forums like this - were unworthy of anyone with the intelligence to do this for a living - much less to do it at the level JVP does it. Mental horsepower is not his issue, but intelligent human interaction often seems out of his reach.
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>But the ideas were often met with vitriol that was more emotional than technical as well. And I think it unfortunate that the message got mingled with the messenger.

I suspect if you went back and looked at the threads over a period of time, you'd see that the reaction to JVP changed over that time. The more he behaved viciously, the less people wanted to hear his ideas.

>But I definitely agree that gratuitous viciousness played a big part in JVPs message being dismissed. ( that doesn't - of course - explain why the same message was often met with equal venom when delivered by much more user-friendly folks )
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I think that's also a consequence of JVP's approach that made the topic a far more emotional one than it needed to be.

Tamar