Oh Nooooo That's precisely what brought all this heated debate, did you forget the title of the thread?
Let's just drop it, unless of course you want to aim the guns at C**** ,

... where is TTK?
Terry, your presence is required here

Richard, finally a bit of humour on this thread, so desperately needed to quench the animosity )

John please drop in a smilie, this is finally a comment that finally made me giggle after a tedious reading of the thread

Is George around? Please bring him in may be that will calm him down too and make him less abrupt with his comments . Please note that that is his own admission that he can be abrupt mostly with his comments, it didn't originate from me

That is a glitch in the code of the page. I had noticed it before. Unless one ticks in the result never appears in their browsers

So who started this thread? Can we please try to remember that?

And it seems to me that when one arrives here and is a new pentaxian he or she is welcomed with open arms, but dare he or she decide to leave or even consider leaving and the few and may I stress the very few here just give him or her hell. Not a very nice thing to do surely .
Why just not be happy for them and appreciate the fact that they like the forum and will drop by once in a while? Wasn't this supposed to be a friendly environment?

And yes, George was the one who started this thread.

I started the poll on the other thread simply to show that people come and go, its not unique and there are more people also considering leaving pentax for various reasons, while many are coming in, so its not really something extraordinary, nor are just very few of them doing so.
Didn't start a poll to cause more friction.

This type of attitude I am afraid might just make some who might eventually consider leaving just drop out and shut themselves, and quite honestly, I would rather have a friendly forum member who has left pentax gear for another but still come in and have an input in the forum and remain friendly

I am one of those wanting desperately a K7. But I still need to be convinced that it will give me what I want, and in the meantime I am very happy with my K20, for now

Because I think the appearence of the new model is what prompts mostly the changeovers from one system to the other. I was hoping to get newcomers into the system lured by the fact that the K7 is here.

I was tempted to come into DSLR due to the attraction of the K20D

A bit harsh wouldn't you think so Mike?

and then a contradiction again here

Me too Mike
But I think most of it is still the same, so I take solace in that still.

This is still a place I like to stay linked and participate throughout the day. Its a nice and pleasant meeting point

Hmm, still no one coming from a different system to Pentax? I was hoping that the number of people considering leaving would be roughly equal to those who have left other systems and joined Pentax.

Oh, so when you start seeing that you have lost the argument this is how you run for cover?

By the way, what is there in your comment that was so complicated that I missed the point? What you mentioned and I quote "I wonder how he would fare using a *ist D and a manual focus lens" is quite self explanatory.