Fred,
It's got nothing to do with your personal talent. You are and always will be a much better photographer than me and a lot of people. And I'm not in still business anyway.
It's got nothing to do with your technical apportations that can be truly interesting.
It's got nothing to do with the fact that one can honestly critise, give advice etc etc...
In my modest opinion, it's got a lot to do with the how. That's what, for me, is really painfull and brings a climate of tension in many of your posts and specially the ones related to MF.
I read your repply because I was almost sure you would have read what you wanted and started an attack, and I was right.
After my harsh attack on Testino's party, you deducted that was homophob and that it wasn't worth arguing with me. But the thing is that in the end you couldn't help it, because (IMO again) you generaly look for confrontations. Not only with me, each time you can. The tone of your posts with others MF have been sometimes in the same league and in the end people know you as the D800 "killer" or the Nikon agent.
Now, this ridiculous "ignore this user" (because it's hidden victimism) shows that you are playing a doble game and shows that something's wrong somewhere.
The result of that is that many people here, instead of taking your posts as they should, or feel advertion for them, or don't read them, or would smile thinking of the Nikon saga.
That's what I think, it only concerns my own position. But I think that you have a lot to bring, it's just the how and your personal motivations on MF that end to be too personal and frankly suspicious.
I don't care of the Nikon, or Phase, I don't shoot still anymore for sometime now as I'm involved into a different industry and I'm Brand agnostic. But I can understand why so much MF users are fed-up of the dslr saga.
You didn't create the dslr saga, it was there way before you, but you perfectionned it and brought it to some levels, I must admit, with a swiss watch precision.
But again, I think it's about the attitude with many other MF members that don't think like you about equipment, don't have the same motivations or agendas and simply aren't concerned about switching to dslrs.