Wow, I'm shocked and very disappointed at L.O.S.T., this is a sad day. This was a legitimate thread where Sarge was kind enough to share his design with everyone by putting it in the public domain. Removing the thread in it's entirety is unprecedented and a loss to the whole community.
There was absolutely nothing inflammatory or contentious in this thread so I can only assume that someone must have gone bleating to the mods that he was advertising simply because he made a single offer to help others out in return for a modest payment to cover his costs. Of course, the fact that he is providing a great, low cost and competitive solution to our thermostat problem could also be a factor?
So, I wonder who could have been the driving force behind this action? Does anyone have any ideas?
We've seen plenty other vendors kick start their concept and initial sales here without being interfered with like this for example SEGR, Kap's stat mod, Geordi, the guy that did the bushings for the CAT filter, GDE, Sasquatch, Etechno1 and 4J/1G to name but a few. None of their early threads have been removed. If we were prepared to support these initiatives should we not also be prepared to support what Sarge was trying to achieve here?
Our support of such innovation is crucial otherwise otherwise no one will bring their ideas to the table. The key here is identifying the transition from a community endeavour to a commercial venture where we expect the vendor to pay for his advertising. Sarge wasn't there yet and I'm not even sure he was heading in that direction.
I could have understood if he was guilty of continual and relentless thread crapping and self promotion (spam) in any thread that contained the mere mention of the cooling system but this is far from the case.
Thanks for your inspiration Sarge
