Indeed it appears hard to see through the mist (but thanks for sharing my music). See, in my opinion the following has the things precisely backwards:
They should feel grateful to dig thru your superior PR posts. It doesn't matter where their money went. Just to post in the same thread as you is such magic. Bow down.
To construe me as putting myself in a superior position by telling someone to read up on my post history is, I think, wrongheaded.
I would be putting myself in a superior position if I were to continue to support the expectation that the XC team will respond to the community's every question, concern, and worry.
Why? Because doing so supports and enables a dependency upon me to provide information and support.
But I'm not some infallible/impartial/ideal source of information. It is unethical for me to enable activity that would treat me as such - and to do so would wrongly put me in a position of superiority.
So what I'm implying with the way I post lately is that I do not want the community to put me on a pedestal on this way.
(By the way, my reply to Reebokass's post had more to do with him agreeing to stop posting mopey, negative remarks - something he's entirely failed to put a stop to. It wasn't a general reply to the community; it was a reply specifically to him.)