@Kevin Brittingham
First off, I am glad you are enjoying the "Q Fix" thread on here, and the fact it's 65 pages and still going says a lot. Now by a lot, I am not sure if it's a good thing or bad thing with you coming on here late at night and attacking pretty much everyone and everything you can.
To start,
I was pretty happy to you see you on here talking about the Fix and your work through Q. As I have mentioned, I like the idea behind the Fix and feel it's a good platform based on my limited interactions with it. With this in mind, we had a very brief conversation on here about me coming to the shop for a bit more in-depth background on all of it. Unfortunately, life and work got in the way and I have not been able to follow up. But that is not the whole story, I can be considered a casual fan, and then all this happened:
I was told about you going on the late night rants and attacking pretty much everyone. Yes, like all social media there trolls out there and defending yourself can be hard when people feel their anonymous account is the perfect shield to throw shade your way. We do our best to keep people from attacking companies like yours, but man this thread makes it hard on several levels. When you feed the trolls, you get more coming back for seconds and even thirds. For this reason, we try to make sure everyone knows if the report button is used, we will respond and remove the trolls from crapping on popular threads. This is also a key element for me, I have not followed this thread and while we may see it is moving, we really dont have any idea what kind of movement we are seeing.
Then I get wind you are constantly going off on Bartlein and Dave Tooley who both happen to be personal friends of mine. Sure Dave is more of an acquaintance through the industry, but Tracy and Company I have a pretty long and personal relationship with. So now we have a company acting like a troll to another company which puts me in a very difficult position. My first instinct is to just delete the entire thread. But 65 pages is a lot of eyes, and I feel there has to be some benefit to all involved. But you're saying a lot of untrue stuff about Bartlien and the work by Dave Tooley. There is more to this story and I think it would cast a very different light on the attacks if people knew that side of it. Let's be honest, this is not about the quality of Tracy's Barrels, we all know they are the gold standard when it comes to precision rifle accuracy, and yes they are the SH Favorites. I default to Bartlein barrels over any other.
Before you think my phone is blowing up, it's not, but I was recently made of aware of this and went back to read it and see for myself. It's a bit worse than I was lead to believe and now you have me in a bad position.
As a courtesy to someone within this industry, I suggest you stand down on here. If you want to discuss; You, your company, your products, that is no problem at all. However if you are gonna personally attack friends of mine, it will all have to go. I will lock this up, with a note, explaining why I am stopping the conversation, with backstories so people know it's not all as it appears. We get it, there are 3 sides to every story, but we also have a 3rd party moderator who has judged on the differences of opinions here if you want to call it that. We can discuss that part of the conflict too, but I would rather not given the choice.
Do us a favor, stick to your lane, leave the personal attacks off the board. If guys won't follow suit, report it, and I will give them a time out. It's my one offer, in public to stand this BS down. If we are just gonna throw shade back and forth as your only method to justify your decisions, it's not gonna fly on here. When the parties are put on the scale, one side outweighs the other, and that is just how it goes. Full disclosure here, I am on Team Bartlein.
Make my decisions easy, take heart the offer and let's continue without attacking friends of mine. They are not gonna come on here and respond to you, so let's knock it off.
I am not above locking it, but it's a direction I would rather not go.