FWIW, I read guitardom's post twice and find nothing rude or condescending about it. Its all matter-of-fact, plain and simple. Once you've been around here a while(and don't cop an attitude) you find out soon enough who actually DOES get nasty(and guitardom ain't one of those). It also seems to correspond to the number of posts a user has
I suggest a round of beers for everyone and then we can just work on the problems