Hmmmmm.....

'Suck up to people, and they will like you'. Pretty f*cking profound, there, Dale!

Personally, I neither come here to 'handle' people, nor to have them like me. I just like the frank and open exchange of views and opinions about arrangers and music in general. And when someone disagrees with me, it has no bearing on whether I like them or not. They are as entitled to their opinion as I am to mine.

If, on the other hand, they fail to manage to disagree with me without plain outright insulting me, that's different. Those so ignorant they can't tell the difference between an insult and an argument don't honestly deserve any respect.

But anyway, everyone is free to suck up to me if they think it will change my attitude

Didn't think so...