Quote - Here's the lesson:  no one should ever participate in a forum thread -- controversial (on any side of a given issue -- right or wrong) -- or even non-controversial.  Because if you do participate in a thread: then you always run the risk of being lamented over for having spoken up and expressed an opinion on a given subject.

Hah ! Seriously though, these threads are at least good for one thing (and i suspect it's the reason the mods let them go on for so long) ie they work as lightning rods and attract all the negative energy of the forum and confine it to this huge chain of posts and counter-posts till it all gets grounded by a thread lock. Keeps all the other threads clean and coherant.

Like now that this thread is approaching 'ground' after 14 pages, i bet we wont get any more static in the forum about PP again. Well till SM releases SP1 or something anyway :P

Quote - But perhaps arguing bitterly over lighting or texturing issues occurs on a much higher moral plain than does arguing over Art, or over the meaning of professionalism, or whatever.  Take your pick

Same plain, different dimension :)