Nowhere in his comments does he mention or come after you.
Never said he did. What he did do was bite the hand that is "feeding" him rare DX -- with, most likely, not an earthly clue that he was doing such a thing. And, he invited piling on.
I've been here a long time. All too many here don't understand DXpedition economics. There are plenty here who write as if they can sit back, wait for the DXpeditions to happen from some eager, infinitely large population, and, if they
deign to do so, our hardy DXer will reward them with three bucks (not a penny more) for the card. They then feel they have done all they should do for a healthy DX program.
This is, of course, nonsense that can be dispelled by reading up on the few sources we have describing how these things are funded. That three bucks is certainly welcome, but no sensible DXpeditioner
counts on it when setting sail. If they do, they had better be prepared to pony up if it falls short. Like, say, getting fewer QSOs than planned.
They certainly have to pay for just about everything (the boat, particularly) without a dime of OQRS and other types of QSL money. All QSL money is is a loss
reducer. DXpeditions are deadweight financial losses to those that go. So, they
do subsidize us. Typically, no matter what sort of expedition it is, they pay 30 per cent or more of the costs out of their own pocket. And it is they that have to dig deeper to cover shortfalls.
You, I assume, know this. Me, I get tired of seeing it stated or implied that three bucks, after the fact, is all anyone needs to do. Or that it doesn't matter what the rules are. I don't contribute to every expedition myself. But I
do know that if I don't contribute to at least some, ideally many, far
fewer expeditions will happen. And, I also know that the rules affect whether I get more or fewer expeditions for the same amount of money. Between the foundations, us, and DXpeditioners themselves, the money is nothing like infinite; all the while expedition complexity and costs have been rising of late. 300K use to be a lot. Now 750K to 1M is becoming the norm. Nothing has changed except the hostility of the external environment.
When I see cartoon memes in any forum, it is amazing how often they are attached to weak arguments and how often they are disconnected from reality.
The reaction I got proved my suspicions.
It is fortunate most big time expeditioners are too busy to read eHam. Many, I think, would give it up if they really thought meme-posts like that were representative of the audience.
Seriously, this is human relations 101. If someone is giving you a subsidy, you don't
trash them.
Yet, it happens all the time in here. Today, I got tired of playing nice about it.
He's giving his opinion and including a joking cartoon...in his mind a respectable one with a funny attachment.
Yeah, and our world is too full of posts like that, made by ignorant people who are proud of their ignorance and expect the rest of us to pass on without comment or even treat it as factual.
Well, sometimes we do, and sometimes we don't.
There has been pushback, pushback that I have seen before. Pushback pretending that we, the stay-at-homes, have nothing to do with how DXpeditioning is conducted. This, too, is nonsense. The terms of wherever they go and how they deploy their gear are set by
the non-DXpeditioner because we effectively control the DXCC rules makers, albeit indirectly. But, we still do. We set the rules of the game and if
we make it harder, we have indeed picked someone else's pockets (and reduced the number of expeditions we get in the bargain).
That is DXpedition Economics 101.
People can have the opinions they like. What they can't have when I see them is their own
imaginary facts, particularly when the facts are available.