I think this board needs a sense of humour and some posters need thicker skins.
If you post an opinion on here , rather like speaking up in the school playground, you are sticking your head above the parapet and there are quite a few bitter and twisted people out there who have little better to do than shoot down anyone with a different view than their own .
Personally I think it should be water off a duck's back. Fight your corner by all means , but don't be surprised to get flack from time to time.