I liked Sirius and think they need to let him back in. What did he say? He was helpful to new ignorant folks that join. Most of the folks here seem to attack the newbies or play games before being helpful. I ran across a YouTube video this morning talking about this kind of thing and posted it in the lounge. Ironically Bill closed the thread for some reason, he has PMs blocked so I can't ask him why.
As for a 20 year vets. I don't remember where I heard this, but it was a guy saying he has been doing it this way for 20 years and another guy told him, well you have been doing it wrong for 20 years. Tuning on these reversed engineered OSes isn't really based on facts. The understanding of how it works is hidden, unlike, say a standalone. Over the years things get figure out on what works and information is leak from engineers that understand it. I think you find that folks tuning these things don't understand how it really works and what the "right" way is to do it, but the pros have figured out what works. You see different ways to get it done and big ecos debate on how you are supposed to do it. I assume this is what 6.0 is talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVqbIm5-4vs&t=4164s it is clear Matt has no idea what he is talking about in some of these questions. He doesn't understand how it works but understand what works. Matt seems interested in learning what he doesn't know. Sirius throws out different ideas to solve/do things. Which is good, even if you don't agree with him. In the car community there are a lot of myths that become facts, and the experts repeat them. It is good when folks challenge "facts"
This forum is interesting for sure. Not that forum are a thing now with facebook groups taking over. In the old days when cars forum were peaking you'd find the owner and the trusted admin crew would run off folks they didn't like or didn't share their views. Some sites were pretty toxic and mod/admin took their "power" a bit to seriously. This forum is kind of wild. You have a company that sells products, fairly pricey, and has a forum. They don't seem to police or monitor the forums though. Members can be toxic over and over again and it is allowed. I am surprised how HPTuners doesn't seem to care about protecting their brand in this regard. Someone spent 500 bucks buy your product and in their first post they get hammered and insulted by the long time members. Kind of crazy. Interesting that Sirius got booted, I wonder what he is going to do with his time now that he isn't helping folks with free tunes.