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Originally Posted by philip.ed

I will say this; no matter how Tree approached this topic, all he did was state his opinion and phrase it in his usual way. It's like me asking a German for a joke; it won't be funny, but if I comment on it in my British way he will most likely be offended. Do the same to someone from England and it's banter.

What has happened, again, is people have responded to Tree and in doing so called him out. Even Moderators are doing it now, and whilst I usually always agree with Black-Dog, this is an example of a topic which only really needed to be handled via PM's.
Whether or not Tree was rude, he wasn't aggressive, but users were to him. He did respond, but he was ganged up on. TBH, Tree has been posting like this for years. I enjoy his posts and find them different, and many times quite sobering in how they have a funny way of turning out to be correct (from Ubi to most of his release date guesses). I can't see why people haven't gotten used to it by now. Yes, Tree's posts may wind people up, but many others do to me and I don't try and flame them whenever they hit the submit button.

Agreed even though he does wind me up