Why, thanks!@bj: thrilled to see you here!
I’ve been here about 4 years now, seeking a more Australian-focussed forum than the Tesla ones. But particularly over time I found the Tesla forum more and more toxic. Anyone who said even the slightest thing critical about Tesla was immediately labelled a “short”, a “troll” or a “hater”. Or just making the complaint up because they were working for Big Oil or Russian Trolls. Too much playing the man, not the ball, rarely addressing the concern raised.
And I found the relentless mocking and scorn over every non-Tesla EV to be tiresome. Apparently there was no set of circumstances, ever, in which someone could legitimately decide on an EV other than Tesla. Because every other EV was complete rubbish, you see, deliberately designed to be so in order to “poison the well” for EVs so much as to kill them off completely. Yes, some people actually believed that stuff - it was all a conspiracy.
When I pointed out such a view went against what Elon Musk himself says (that Tesla cannot do this by themselves and every manufacturer needs to start making EVs), and therefore they were actually working against his mission by taking such an aggressive Tesla-only stance - oh boy, did that really trigger them.
The RHD Waiting Room thread was a sane respite, because the Americans in the forum had no interest in that. When the RHD deliveries started and that thread was no longer needed, I got outta there.