Originally posted by monochrome IMHO, after several years of reading his reasoned and measured posts, falconeye has the professional skill and expertise to speculate reasonably; identifies his speculative comments as such; clearly articulates that which he knows to be fact, including publishing extensive technical articles to support his opinions; and may, in fact, (as I suspect others here are) be subject to a NDA with Pentax.
In your court.
I think that you are going down the slippery slope here, and I am not sure if you want to go there.
What you are saying, if I am reading you correctly, is that there are certain people who get to say certain things without getting dinged on, and this is solely based on what they have posted in the past and how many. It is perfectly reasonable, as one reader, that you believe one comment more so than the other based on what has been said before and by whom. But, when you begin to insinuate that you cannot post this way or that, just because you are not this or that, is in my view censorship, or something very very close to it. To me there is a fundamental flaw here.
I fully agree with you that falconeye has been around here for years and that he has certainly demonstrated expertise. It is perfectly reasonable that one believes his comments over mine. But, that is not to say that you can tell people what others can say and how.
I don't know what NDA is, but if I were to guess, it is probably something like "non disclosure agreement." If you happen to have that with Pentax, in my opinion it is truly the dumbest move of the century to hang out at a place like this and spew out bits and bits of info here and there for your own amusement. You should say nothing at all. The only reason for someone with NDA want to say something would be to make the reader jealous of the fact that he knows something that nobody do. It is not only stupid, but incredibly egoistic of pathological proportion. Disregard if NDA means something else.
I also see a double standard here. Consider this thread for example.
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/172213-new-k-01-mirror...ra-coming.html
This OP, while I have nothing bad to say about him/her, titles it as if it is almost fact. My understanding is that this is a rumor, correct? This person has only 41 posts. This is ok then?
I can understand why people want to gang up on me here because I often say things that you don't want to hear, or see. It is what it is. Having double standard because of what is said in the past and sentiments related to it is childish at best.
I have in the past why I feel that the next DSLR will be APS-C. Kitazawa stated in the interview that he believes that DSLR can be made smaller with larger viewfinder, and that they will not abandon K mount. He has also said that in regards to FF, it makes no sense for Pentax to do what others did with FF. When I read between the lines of that interview excerpts, to me the message is clear. They will not abandon APS-C, probably because of the profit margin difference between APS-C and FF sensors.
In the end, this is a news and rumor section. This is where we speculate. We are talking about products that have not been released. As far as I am concerned, everything said here is speculation. I am not certain why anyone would want to take any statements made here (no matter who made them) as facts.
Back in your court.