@luxlife
"I hope that others wise up and do the same before they start posting online. Alas, that never happens...."
Not sure why there is such a malicious tone in your comment, unless I misconstrued that. Or if this was just some bad blood between you and Les.
In case it isn't, I'd just like to comment that this is not Wikipedia, it is a online web forum. Everyone is welcome here no matter how much they know about vacuums or not, and the people that do not know that do their best to help, that either may be mistaken on something, mis-remember it, or not know the full history, this is how they learn and improve their knowledge. They learn from the people that do know the right knowledge and care to teach it to anyone that may be reading it.
Every member here that joins doesn't magically know a complete history of each and every vacuum, and some people may not even like vacuums in that way to begin with, they just like using all the different makes and models out there without knowing the entire play-by-play history behind them. There is nothing wrong with that. The same thing happens in car clubs and with sports fans, it's nothing new. Chasing everyone away and shaming the people that have never seen a certain particular vacuum before that evidently is so rare that maybe only 4-6 people ever seen one or remember what it is, is not going to make this a better place, only worse.
I've only been here for slightly over 2 years, I found this site through Google search results when trying to find info about an old vacuum I seen in a thrift store I was curious about buying. I got a lot of history about it and it made me interested more into old vacuums enough that I decided to go back and get it. It was my first old vacuum that wasn't something that kicked around in storage from other family members and it had its own unique personality and history.
I came back to this site off and on and looked at old comments and such, curious about all these different vacuums there were, and in addition to YouTube collector's community there, the interest grew today and I also gained a greater appreciation for vacuums. I decided to join the site and hang out and for the most part never felt unwelcome with my comments. Everyone was very patient and helpful and I never got a bad impression of the site. I have seen some bad posts and bad apples here and there but every community has those so not much you can do about it, it doesn't turn me off from the website as I've seen a lot of other toxic website and comments in my time on the internet.
That being said, yes, dysonman1 is a great teacher and steward of vacuum cleaners and he definitely knows his stuff, but that doesn't mean anyone else's comments and anecdotes, or helpful ideas are not any less valid. A good community is what makes a good website with good impressions of each other, and it in turn makes people want to come here. We are all equal here in our love of vacuums - both the brand new, very ancient, and all that in between.
