[ONE General] LiquidSolstice:
I will do you the courtesy of replying to your post, but I won't pursue it any further due to a critical failure in understanding on your part concerning what I am and what I am not saying. tl;dr I am not saying anywhere that no one should post anything.

Don't put double standards in my mouth; you do not know what I would or would not do, you have simply made that up based on what you want to think I would do. I am equally annoyed by said posts, which is why I stay off the OPO forums as that is where the majority of this stupid excitement spawns from.

It was directed specifically at you due to your specific claims about storage. There is no "I have said no such thing". You very much discussed your usage case for an SD card and regardless of of the post you were replying to, you made your case, therefore I responded to it. I lack the patience to delve so deep into your words to decide whether or not I'm getting the "essence" of what you're saying.

90% of the first part of your post was entirely about expandable memory (refreshing your memory here):

In which case, my point still stands. What exactly are you adding to the discussion? This isn't a suggestion forum, OP will not be using any of your complaints to change their product any time soon, so I ask you yet again, and this time not rhetorically; understanding that I am not taking either side, when the phone is what it is, what exactly elevates your pedestal of thinking that just because you want to be able to carry all your data around with you, that those who do not are beneath you? What gives you (again, speaking genreally) the right to imply that anyone who is interested in this phone is a victim of PR marketing and hype (and by extension, is somehow weak-minded)? Perhaps you should read the post that set this little tinder fire off, because it wasn't just about removable storage....

It begs the question, however; if the phone is lacking in some critical feature you require and you take massive offense to the invite system, why are you here if for no other reason than to provoke an argument with someone who does not feel the same as you? What is your endgame in doing so? You need to understand that my lack of understanding of your answers to those questions does not imply that I want you to stop posting, and that is a failure in comprehension on your part, not mine.

I'm just about done with your short-sided neutralism. This is not respectful, this is rude and completely uncourteous to anyone who is interested in the phone:

The above post implies that by showing interest in this phone, you are subscribing to the thoughts of a "Steve Jobs clone" (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean), and that by continually showing interest, you are somehow "buying the BS" that above user is not buying. And posts like these are made on a daily basis both here as well as on the OPO forums.

Why are you not attacking those posts in your quest for neutrality?

Again, you are extrapolating just for the sake of making a stupid example. There is no need to "censor" anything. Anyone here is free to say what they would like to say (and again, I have not insinuated at any point in time that people should "shut up", but since you have already decided it is acceptable to put words in my mouth, well hey, why not?). However, if one is to have an opinion, one should have the backbone to stand by that opinion even when others disagree. And my disagreement is being voiced in the claim that I feel repeated complaints about the same thing (invite system, expandable storage) are useless. You can either accept that it's my opinion, or you can take mortal offense to it and defend yourself. It's up to you.

In this case, the physically final nature of this phone is just that; final. Through simple anecdotal search (which is easily repeatable) it is possible to find hundreds of people already complaining about the lack of expandable storage, among the majority of all the other complaints. Your voice in that aspect is not unique, it does not add to the rich pool of opinions, it dilutes it. I'm not telling anyone not to do anything. I'm simply explaining why it's pointless (as far as I'm concerned).

So in your ideal world, the preference would be to have the pages fill up with the same identical complaint, with no productive discussion going on because no one should bother logically understanding that adding their name to the long list of people who are complaining about the same thing will not magically change all of the hardware to be what they want. If 50% of the "discussion" is about the same complaint, is it really a discussion? Or does it then become a unified protest? You tell me.

See how simple it is to flip all of these questions back on you?

If you lack the mental capacity to demonstrate to me where I explicitly tell anyone to stop posting or stop talking, just say so. (Tip: You won't be able to find that because I never said it, but again, putting words in my mouth appears to be a strong point for you).

At the end of the day, I will continue to maintain the same stance that I have kept since the moment I found out about this phone; I do not care about politics, I do not care about investors, I do not care about complaints concerning the invite system, I simply do not care about any of that. It is my opinion that the only rational stance to have is to wait until the public at large starts to receive this device (which will only be more and more possible as they ramp up production) and then I will draw judgement.

Every post I have made in this forum reflects that opinion, and you're welcome to look.