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>          What I find really amazing is that all of you will take 
> information from me if you know who I am (someone who walks the walk),
> but the weenies will always howl at me in response to the exact same
> information when they don't know who I am. I would say that there is
> something fundamentally wrong here - good information is good iinformation,
> regardless of the dive log of the guy giving it. I get tons of good
> info on here, and I have never asked the giver for a set of credentials.

But you see...if someone asks a question, then you can pretty much safely 
assume that s/he doesn't know the answer.  Therefore s/he is probably not 
very good at distinguishing the "good" information from the not-so-good 
stuff.  When faced with several sets of conflicting information (as is 
often posted on this and other forums), a person may be left more 
confused than before the question was asked.  To sort out which sets of 
information are the "good" ones, it can be useful to have a grasp of the 
credentials of the information provider.  If I didn't know you, and I 
asked a question about cave diving, and I got conflicting information 
from you and somebody who has been diving for less than a year, well, I 
wouldn't be sure which of you to trust unless I knew both of your 
credentials.  Obviously, since I do know your credentials, I would trust the 
guy with less than a year of experience before I would trust you.

Aloha,
Rich

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