i didnt read the thread or much of what billek said, but i agree with him when he says it's a priority of his to try to minimize misinformation being spread, especially in threads like this. like i said in another thread, he and i might catch a lot of shit from people for so ardently attacking misinformation being spread, but it's for a good reason
"I don't understand why you are striving to be a positive male role model on the internet."
god knows i don't try too hard to be overly nice on here but i remember when i was really young and came on this site, and since then i've really appreciated the forums for what they can offer- people are total dicks and don't hold back their opinion at all, but at the end of the day you can get really good advice straight from the horse's mouth
like i said, i remember being young as hell on here and another action sports forum, and i really appreciated being able to get real information, not from some DARE brochure, about the things that i would experience soon. you see that thread where the kid asked for advice for the next night when he would be drinking for the first time? there was plenty of the gratuitous hate but there was also a lot of good, responsible but realistic advice in there. people weren't going oh don't drink, they thought, this kid's going to drink either way, might as well tell him real advice on how to be safe and responsible while still having fun
kids act like dbags on here but i think i can say with confidence that at the end of the day a lot of us do care about the person on the other end of the internet (at least as far as serious matters are concerned) and would like to supply them with at least a little information that we know is true