Many great posts N9KX, W7ASA, KE6EE, we're on the same wave length lol
Though the contrarians have a right to their opinion and thanks too for yours AC2EU and if you'll tolerate my comments again too :-)
I'm hardly trying to be a dictator, king, Pharaoh or anything of the like.
All I'm saying is if you want to be understood by the largest possible pool of possible QSOs, then sending something CLOSE to1:3 timing would be a smart thing to do.
But I agree on this and I'm sure the others too: just as we would not send CW more than 14WPM if a QRS station is sending 14WPM, so too we would not send certain styles if we are in QSO with a keyer CW who may not be able to copy anything other than 1:3 CW -- for we DO KNOW that there are an awful lot of such people out there :-)
The sad thing is that you KNOW it sucks, but you LIKE that way and do it on purpose.
On the contrary, we KNOW that our QSO partner is having fun copying it and you do not know what we know.
If it's just about bug OP to bug Op ( which I get the feeling that it is) then have at it with your own special version of code. It matters not to me! 
Indeed and there we will all agree once again
I just spin the dial when I hear that bug nonsense anyway as many others do also. 
And big thanks to you for that, for some are LID who come up and make smart comments without giving call sign, we have all experienced that once in a while, e.g. when sending QRQ "where is the fire?"
I too spin the dial when I hear 5NN TU, or when I hear DCW. That's our freedom -- CW is like MUSIC not everyone likes ALL music. In fact very FEW do.
I have seen musings here about the future of CW and how new OPs are "missing out" etc.
Unfortunately with all of the sloppy fists out there( yes, I'm one too- but I try to do better with every QSO) it's not very easy for a new op to find a station sending reasonable - yes I only ask for reasonable Morse code.
OK but there is your answer: you are new to CW and when new, you can indeed only copy a limited range of CW.
Then when I say that it makes communication difficult because it's too far off the "norm" I get attacked by CW "elitists".
Not at all, go back and read my own "attacks" and you'll see this is not the case. You are being "attacked" for "attacking" the windmills or wrong things that aren't attackable :-)
That tells me that you really don't care about the future of the art, but just your own ability to copy bad code.
No, it tells us that you don't really care to try and find out what we are really talking about, since you are learning.
Apparently the aim is not to teach others how to communicate properly, but to dazzle people with your "secret bug code".
Wow! I'm impressed. So now what?
Again, this is just absurd. You are saying an acrobat should not do acrobatics because some in the audience cannot do it, so they should do simple push ups instead so as not to make those others feel bad -- why WOULD they?! They don't because they recognize talent, and accept that they lack it in that area. It's natural. What is not natural is you who don't know, getting it all wrong, and trying to say that we are promoting sloppy and secret codes etc.
CW Mentoring is dead in Amateur Radio. I guess it's all about thinking you are elite and telling other ops they are not as good as you because they can't copy your bad code! Great guys, good job!
Absolutely no doubt you count me, and KE6EE, W7ASA and others in that elite. I do a lot of mentoring myself.
Slang is fine if it is used sparingly , but if the whole conversation is slang, you probably will only understand a portion of it.
Nah munn, ya tahk rass bamba blahd cleet munn, ka me brudda ken over stand wa me ah seh, un yoo dohn, dahn meen a ting kah me nah tahk te ya rass claht, me tahk to me brudda an e geh me wun undrad percen!
SNIP -- it gets boring brah! The arrogance and ignorance is astounding :-) no doubt you'll think the same, but who is it can copy ALL types of CW and QRQ too? You or us?
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