Appeal for sharpening chat room

[bugbear]

I think the notion of dumping the venom and bad manners into a sharpening forum, that would then IMHO become an unused ghetto, is a poor one.

Sharpening is not the cause of the trouble - many threads other than sharpening have degenerated into bad temper.

Sharpening is discussed (often ), by people with strongly opposing priorities, preferences and practices on other forums and mailing lists without discourtesy.

BugBear

 

[nev]

How about a flow chart?

 

[John Brown]

You missed the "Buy a new tool" option.

 

[mac1012]

I don't see how having a specific section would sideline it , however I think its an inherent problem with any forum and the responses to this thread have made that clear that whatever your talking about different opinions and debates start to appear , whether it be facebook , twitter , or ukws its the nature of social media to have a debate and some people (not all ) enjoy stirring things up and this site is no exeption

I am a newbie to hand tools and sharpening and have received some sound advice on the sharpening subject

I tried to avoid any war breaking out by focusing on technique rather than weapon of choice

best way to deal with someone looking for a reaction is to just ignore them it hurts them more if they don't get a response